Interventions to Improve Police Effectiveness

Oeindrila Dube: Improving Officer Decisionmaking in High-stakes Situations

Oeindrila Dube is the Philip K. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. An economist and political scientist, Dr. Dube uses experimental and non-experimental methods to assess the causes of violence and crime in countries around the world. She has analyzed how changes in U.S. gun laws affect homicides across the border in Mexico and determined how economic shocks perpetuate insurgent violence in Colombia.

Marie Ouellet: Officer Networks and Firearm Use

Marie Ouellet is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia State University. Her research focuses on delinquent groups, including how they emerge and evolve, and the role networks play in this process. She is currently conducting a longitudinal study on police networks to better understand the informal structure of policing, including the consequences of these network structures on the diffusion of behaviors and attitudes. Ouellet’s work has been published in Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and Social Networks.

Philip J. Cook: More and Better Digital Evidence for Homicide Investigations

Philip J. Cook is Sanford Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University. He is one of the first scholars to undertake research on gun violence prevention. In 2020 his contributions in this area were recognized by the award of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology. Earlier, in 2001 he was elected to membership in the National Academy of Medicine. His research has focused on the costly consequences of the widespread availability of guns, and what might be done to reduce these costs.