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Study Shows Tougher Prison Sentences Don't Deter Most Potential Criminals
Study: Tougher Prison Sentences Don't Deter Most Potential Criminals April 22, 2004 PHILADELPHIA Just the threat of "hard time" in prison doesn't discourage most potential criminals from committing crimes, according to a study led by a University of Pennsylvania Law School professor.The findings, published in the forthcoming Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, show that it's unproductive for legislators to re-write laws to increase prison sentences in hopes of improving the deterrence effect.
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Seymour Benzer Recounts His "Adventures in Neurogenetics" on April 27
MEDIA ADVISORYSeymour Benzer Recounts His "Adventures in Neurogenetics" WHO: Seymour Benzer, neurogenetics pioneerWHAT: "Adventures in Neurogenetics," a lecture presented by Penn's Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences, in celebration of its 50th anniversary, and the Franklin Institute.WHEN: 4 p.m., Tuesday, April 27, 2004WHERE: Austrian Auditorium, Clinical Research Building, 415 Curie Blvd.
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Penn Alexander School Students Planting Flowering Trees April 22 in Celebration of Earth Day
WHO: Penn Alexander School students WHAT: Each class will plant a flowering tree on the school grounds in celebration of Earth Day, as a spring project of the PAS Student Council. WHERE: Penn Alexander School, 43rd and Locust Sts., PhiladelphiaWHEN: Beginning at 9:30 a.m. with the Kindergarten classes 10:30 a.m. 1st grade classes11:10 a.m. 2nd grade 11:50 a.m. 5th grade12:30 p.m. 3rd grade1:10 p.m. 6th grade1:45 p.m. 7th grade
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Public-Safety Gains Endangered by Decreased Federal Funding of Crime Research
WASHINGTON- Gains in public safety from dramatic drops in crime over the last decade are at risk because of cuts in federal support for crime-related research, the president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science said today. The 2004 federal budget marks a 35-year low in funding for research into ways police can prevent crimes, according to Lawrence W. Sherman, AAPSS president and director of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania.
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University-Assisted Urban Revitalization Highlight of April 20 Address by Penn President Judith Rodin
WHO: University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin will speak to Washington policymakers at the inaugural Penn in Washington Seminar Series luncheon about the role universities can play in urban revitalization.The lunch is being hosted by NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell and U.S. Rep. Harold E. Ford.
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Pulitzer for Hahn
One of the newest members of Penn’s faculty is now its sixth Pulitzer Prize winner. Steven Hahn, the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, received the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for history for his book “A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration” (Belknap/Harvard, 2003). The book documents the ways in which Southern blacks organized and fought for political power and rights, in the process challenging conventional views of slaves and their descendants as politically passive.
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Mail service survey
The Business Services Division is requesting feedback from faculty and staff on Penn’s mail services. Opinions and suggestions may be submitted before April 30 through the annual online survey, available at www.upenn.edu/mail/survey. Upon completion, participants may enter a drawing to win a $50 gift certificate to the Penn Bookstore.
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Ask Benny: Penn aids the people in the middle, too
Dear Benny,I have been helping my son apply for financial aid to attend college this fall. Penn’s Student Financial Services office tells me that financial aid is need-based. A full-time student living on campus needs $160,000 for four years at Penn. Are Ivy League schools limited to rich and needy students only and not the middle class? — Not Sure I Can Foot the Bill
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Child's Play
STAFF Q&A/Presenting great kids’ theater was Brian Joyce’s vocation for more than a decade. Now his other calling moves onto center stage. A four-month stint as a theater technician at the Annenberg Center turned into a 20-year career here for Brian Joyce, who steps down this spring as director of the Philadelphia International Children’s Festival.
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Q&A: Rebecca Bushnell
At the beginning of her new book, “Green Desire: Imagining Early Modern English Gardens” (Cornell, 2003), Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Rebecca Bushnell makes a confession: “This book took longer to write than I hoped.”