The Conference on Social Science and Law, sponsored by the UC Consortium on Social Science and Law, is the first-ever UC-wide, multidisciplinary conference on Social Science and Law. The Conference location is the Beckman Center at UC Irvine, 100 Academy Drive, Irvine CA 92617. Each panel will present an array of perspectives, reserving time for discussion about new directions and collaborations.
Friday October 23, 5-7 pm Poster Session and Reception. Authors and titles are listed on pp. 4-6.
Saturday October 24
7 am – 8:15 am. Breakfast at the Beckman Center
8:20 – 8:30. Welcome from Steven Clark , Director UC Consortium on Social Science and Law
8:30 – 10:15. EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY
Elizabeth F. Loftus , UC Irvine.
Some Things I’ve Learned about Memory Distortion
John T. Wixted , UC San Diego.
New Methodologies for Assessing Eyewitness Identification Performance
Gail S. Goodman , Deborah Goldfarb, Rakel Larson, UC Davis, Sara M. Tashjian, UC Los Angeles, and
Antonia Cartwright, UC Davis.
Child Maltreatment and Memory
Karen Saywitz , UC Los Angeles
Translating Child Eyewitness Research into Practice and Policy: Value of a Systematic Review and Meta-
Analyses
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee break
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10:30 – 12:15. RACE, LAW, AND JUSTICE
Hiroshi Fukurai , UC Santa Cruz
The Case for Racialized Reparations: Decolonizing the Minds and the Future of Race and Justice
L. Song Richardson , UC Irvine
Suspicion Cascades
Nikki Jones , UC Berkeley & Geoffrey Raymond , UC Santa Barbara
How Things Fall Apart: Race and Suspicion in Police-Civilian Encounters
Mario Barnes , UC, Irvine
The Color of Dangerousness?: Managing Perceptions of Race in Self-Defense and Sentencing
Jill Leovy , Los Angeles Times
The Weakness of Criminal Justice
12:15 – 1:30. Lunch at the Beckman Center
1:30 – 3:15. JUVENILE JUSTICE, CHILDREN AND THE LAW
Elizabeth Cauffman , UC Irvine
Arrested Development: Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice
Jodi A. Quas , UC Irvine
Children in the Dependency System: Trajectories of Risk Versus Resilience
Maria Hernandez , Presiding Judge, Orange County Juvenile Court
Perspectives from the Bench: From Dependency Court to Juvenile Court
Jill Habig , Special Assistant California Attorney General
Accountability and Enforcement Gaps in Child-Serving Systems: The Bureau of Children’s Justice
3:15 – 3:30 More Coffee
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3:30 – 5:15. SOCIAL SCIENCE, SOCIAL POLICY, AND SOCIAL CHANGE
David Faigman , UC Hastings
Disinterested Science and Interested Scientists: Some Thoughts on the Perils and Pitfalls at the
Intersection of Science and Policy
Peter Ditto , UC Irvine
Moral Evaluation Shapes Factual Belief: Implications for Politics, Policy, & the Law
Steven E. Clark , UC Riverside
Relevance and Scientific Neutrality
Catherine Albiston , UC Berkeley
Reflecting on the Role of Sociolegal Research in Advancing Social Change
5:15 Adjourn.
Sunday, October 25 th
7:00 – 8:15. Breakfast at the Beckman Center
8:30 – 10:15. CORRECTIONS, PRISONS, AND PUNISHMENT
Susan Turner , UC Irvine
Translating Research into Practice: Collaboration with the California Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation
Ryken Grattet , UC Davis, Sonja Tafoya , Public Policy Institute of California, and Mia Bird, UC Berkeley
The Multi-County Study of Community Corrections in California
Hadar Aviram , UC Hastings
Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment
Avani Mehta Sood , UC Berkeley
Motivated Suppression Judgments in the Lab and on the Bench: An Empirical Triangulation
Jennifer Skeem , UC Berkeley
Smarter Sentencing? Relations among Race, Risk Assessment, and Recidivism
10:15 – 10:30 Even More Coffee
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10:30 – 12:15
Roundtable: IMMIGRATION AND LAW
Marjorie Zatz , UC Merced
Jennifer Chacon , UC Irvine School of Law
Susan Bibler Coutin , UC Irvine
Hiroshi Motomura, UC Los Angeles, School of Law
Caitlin Patler , UC Irvine
12:15 – 12:20.
Closing Comments and Adjournment
About the UC Consortium on Social Science and Law.
The Consortium was created through a
Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives grant from the UC Office of the President. Lead investigators are: Elizabeth Cauffman (UC Irvine), Steven Clark (UC Riverside), David Faigman (UC
Hastings), Gail S. Goodman (UC Davis), Hiroshi Fukauri (UC Santa Cruz), Jennifer Mnookin (UC Los
Angeles), Victoria Plaut (UC Berkeley), Karen Saywitz (UC Los Angeles), Jennifer Skeem (UC Berkeley),
John Wixted (UC San Diego), and Marjorie Zatz (UC Merced).
Acknowledgements. The Conference was organized jointly by the lead investigators of the Consortium.
Special thanks to Elizabeth Cauffman, April Thomas, and Jodi Quas at UC Irvine. Thanks also to Donita
McCants-Carter of the Presley Center for Crime and Justice Studies at UC Riverside. Thanks to all of the panel members, and conference participants and attendees who made the Inaugural UC Conference on
Social Science and Law a success.
Poster Session: Authors and Titles. Beckman Center Atrium. 5 to 7 pm, Friday, Oct. 23
1.
Amanda Charbonneau & Jack Glaser . UC Berkeley. The Psychological and Legal Constructions of
Criminal Suspicion.
2.
Angela Carter & Bill McCarthy . UC Davis. Age-Graded Paternal Incarceration and Occupational
Outcomes.
3.
Daniel Bederian-Gardner , Yoojin Chae , & Gail S. Goodman . UC Davis. Predictors of Children’s
Lying to Conceal Parental Transgression.
4.
Elizabeth Clark . UC Irvine. Negotiating Eligibility: Inconsistency and Subjectivity in Victim-Based
Immigration Relief.
5.
Hannah Laqueur & Ryan Copus , UC Berkeley. Machine-Assisted Justice: An Application of
Judgmental Bootstrapping to California Parole.
6.
Kevin J. Cochran , Daniel Bogart , & Elizabeth F. Loftus , UC Irvine. Altered Self-Reports Cause
Memory Distortion: A Case for “Memory Blindness”.
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7.
Molly B. Moreland & Steven E. Clark , UC Riverside. Decision Strategies in Eyewitness
Identification.
8.
Adam Fine & Elizabeth Cauffman , UC Irvine. Race and Justice System Attitude Formation during the Transition to Adulthood.
9.
Helen M. Milojevich & Jodi A. Quas . UC Irvine. Cycle of Violence: Relations among
Maltreatment, Emotional Competence, and Aggression .
10.
Rakel P. Larson , UC Davis, & Steven E. Clark , UC Riverside. Witness Participation in the Criminal
Justice System: Perceptions of the Legitimacy of Police and the Reporting of Crime.
11.
Amy M. Magnus , UC Irvine. “ On Behalf of Her Children”: The Impact of Children on Judicial
Decision-Making in Protection Order Cases.
12.
Carly Giffin & Tania Lombrozo , UC Berkeley. Wrong or Merely Prohibited: Special Treatment of
Strict Liability Crimes in Folk Judgments.
13.
Lauren Reiser & Nicholas Scurich , UC Irvine. The Impact of Narrative Consistency on Jurors’
Utilization of DNA Evidence.
14.
Jennifer Gongola , Nicholas Scurich , UC Irvine, Thomas Lyon , University of Southern California, &
Jodi Quas , UC Irvine. Effects of Putative Confession Instruction on Perceptions of Child Veracity.
15.
Adam Dunbar , UC Irvine. The Influence of Rap Music Stereotypes on Inferences of Threat.
16.
Leah A. Jacobs , UC Berkeley. Accessing Neighborhood Risk and Protection: A Comparison of
Methods and Measures.
17.
Kyndra C. Cleveland & Jodi A. Quas , UC Irvine. Parental Engagement with the Dependency
System: Examining Knowledge, Justice Attitudes, and Motivation.
18.
Natalie A. Pifer & Kelsie Chestnut , UC Irvine. Law as Sword and Shield: Conflicting Legal
Consciousness in the Criminal Context.
19.
Zachary Psick , UC Davis & Teresa Gowan , University of Minnesota. Sin, Suffering, and the
American Dream: An Ethnographic Discourse Analysis of Evangelical Drug Rehabilitation.
20.
Chanita Intawan , Thomas G. Hansford , & Stephen P. Nicholson , UC Merced. Snap Judgement:
Implicit Perceptions of a Political Court.
21.
Ryan Copus & Alan Kluegel , UC Berkeley. Judicial Citation Clubs: Social Networks in the Federal
Judiciary.
22.
Aniket Kesari , UC Berkeley. Lock the Back Door and Throw Away the Key: How iOS8’s Killer App is Challenging Government Surveillance.
23.
Chelsea Coe & Thomas G. Hansford , UC Merced. Linguistic Complexity, Information Processing, and Public Acceptance of Supreme Court Decisions.
24.
Sue D. Hobbs , Daniel Bederian-Gardner , & Gail S. Goodman , UC Davis. Residential Instability and Mental Health in Foster Youth.
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25.
Rebecca Hofstein Grady , Peter Ditto , & Elizabeth Loftus , UC Irvine. Investigating Memory
Coherence and Bias in Mock Jurors Exposed to Inadmissible Evidence.
26.
Jenny Roth , Jeffrey W. Sherman , & Andrew, M. Rivers . UC Davis. Biases in Person Judgment:
The Self-Concept Affects the Evaluation of Other People .
27.
Angela Fillingim , UC Irvine. (Re)Drawing the Boundaries of Repression: Human Rights and
United States – Latin America Policy from 1976 to 1992 .
28.
Maura Lievano . UC Berkeley. Cash and Crime: Evidence from Eleven Countries.
29.
Benjamin Chen & Zhiyu Li , UC Berkeley. Precedent in the Chinese Civil Law System: An
Experimental Approach.
30.
Jovan Milojevich , UC Irvine. The International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: A Fair Court, or Serving a Political Agenda?
31.
Mohamed Abdelaal , UC Berkeley. The Fear of Interlocking Directors: Is it Justifiable? Legal and
Empirical Analysis of the Egyptian Case.
32.
Andrew M. Rivers , Heather R. Rees , Jeffrey W. Sherman , & Jimmy Calanchini , UC Davis.
General Response Biases: Evidence from the Weapons Identification Task.
33.
Rachel L. Greenspan , Kevin J. Cochran , & Elizabeth F. Loftus . Choice Blindness as
Misinformation: Memory Distortion in an Eyewitness Identification Task.
34.
Ivana Stradner , UC Berkeley. The False Promise of a Crime of Aggression .
35.
Sarah M. Tashjian , UC Los Angeles, Deborah Goldfarb , Gail S. Goodman , UC Davis, & Jodi A.
Quas , UC Irvine. Maltreatment by a Parent Contributes to Delays in Non-Parental Child Sexual
Abuse Disclosure.
36.
Caitlin Cavanagh & Elizabeth Cauffman , UC Irvine. The Role of Juvenile Justice Processing in the
Change in the Parent-Adolescent Relationship over Time.
37.
Cortney Simmons , Caitlin Cavanagh , Elizabeth Cauffman , UC Irvine, Paul J. Frick , Louisiana
State University, & Laurence Steinberg , Temple University. Father-Child Relationship Quality and Adolescent Offending.
38.
Jonni Johnson , Sue D. Hobbs , UC Davis, Yoojin Chae , Texas Tech University, Gail S. Goodman ,
Donna Shestowsky , UC Davis, & Stephanie Block , University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
Detecting Children’s True and False Accounts: Effects of Child Age, Event Valence, or Adult
Attitudes towards Child Eyewitnesses.
39.
Laura Harrison , UC Santa Cruz. Rights are not Justice: A Case Study in Campus Segregation and
How University Accessibility Policies do Violence to the Spirit of the Americans with Disabilities
Act.
40.
Shirin Bakhshay & Craig Haney , UC Santa Cruz. The Media’s Impact on the Right to a Fair Trial:
A Content Analysis of Pre-Trial Publicity in Capital Cases.
41.
Joanna M. Weill & Shirin Bakhshay , UC Santa Cruz. “Knowing” Prisoners: How Social Distance
Predicts Attitudes towards Prisoners and Prison Reform.
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42.
Daina Sanchez , UC Irvine. Undocumented Transnationalism: Identity and Legality among the
Indigenous Mexican 1.5-Generation in Los Angeles, California.
43.
David Showalter , UC Berkeley. The Penal Origins of the Psychopath: Bernard Glueck at Sing
Sing, 1916-1918.
44.
David R. Munro , UC Santa Cruz. Consumer Behavior and Countercyclical Dispersion.
45.
Jimmy Calanchini , UC Davis, Wesley G. Moons , Moons Strategic Marketing, & Diane M. Mackie ,
UC Santa Barbara. Angry Expressions Induce Careful Processing of Persuasive Appeals.
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