Crime and Punishment in California: Fundraiser March 12
The League of Women Voters, Piedmont is holding a FUNDRAISER ON SUNDAY, MARCH 12TH FROM 3-5:00 PM
The League of Women Voters annual fundraiser event is open to the public. Keynote speaker will be Berkeley Professor Steven Raphael discussing “Crime and Punishment in California: Recent Trends and Reforms”
Dr. Raphael is an adjunct fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California and professor of public policy at UC, Berkeley. His research focuses on the economics of low-wage labor markets, housing, and the economics of crime and corrections.
He is the author of The New Scarlet Letter? Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record and Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? He is editor in chief of Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society and a research fellow at the University of Michigan National Poverty Center, the University of Chicago Crime Lab, and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Germany. He holds a PhD in economics from the UC Berkeley.
Date: Sunday, March 12, 2016
Time: 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Refreshments from 3-3:30pm
Location: Piedmont Community Center, Highland Avenue
Tickets for the event are $25.00 per person in advance and $30.00 at the door. To purchase tickets in advance go to >
or send your check payable to LWVP in care of Ward Lindenmayer, 40 Highland Avenue, Piedmont, CA 94611.
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Editors’ Note: The Piedmont Civic Association (PCA) and the League of Women Voters, Piedmont are separate, non- affiliated organizations.
