Emily Owens

Professor, Department of Criminology, Law and Society

Research Expertise

Economics and Econometrics
Finance
Law
Urban Studies
Public Administration
Sociology and Political Science
Education
Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Anthropology
Development
Geography, Planning and Development
Demography
Management of Technology and Innovation
Strategy and Management
Industrial relations
Pharmacology (medical)
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Materials Chemistry
Metals and Alloys
Organic Chemistry
Surfaces, Coatings and Films
Biochemistry
Structural Biology
Molecular Biology
Bioengineering
Biotechnology
Clinical Biochemistry
Medical Laboratory Technology
Histology
Anatomy
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Archeology
History

About

Emily Owens is an economist and professor at the University of California, Irvine. She earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2007, and her MA in Economics from the university in 2005. She holds a BS in Applied Math and Economics from Brown University, which she obtained in 2002. At UC Irvine, Emily is a professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society as well as the Department of Economics. She is an expert in the fields of public policy, urban economics, and law and economics. She has also conducted research on topics such as the effects of increased policing on crime and the impact of school vouchers on educational outcomes. She has published articles in academic journals such as the Journal of Urban Economics and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

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Publications

COPS and crime
Journal of Public Economics
2007
More Time, Less Crime? Estimating the Incapacitative Effect of Sentence Enhancements
The Journal of Law and Economics
2009
Low-income housing development and crime
Journal of Urban Economics
2011
Testing the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
2016
Can You Build a Better Cop?
Criminology & Public Policy
2018
Immigration, Employment Opportunities, and Criminal Behavior
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
2018
One for the road: Public transportation, alcohol consumption, and intoxicated driving
Journal of Public Economics
2011
Does federal financial aid affect college enrollment? Evidence from drug offenders and the Higher Education Act of 1998
Journal of Urban Economics
2014
Are Underground Markets Really More Violent? Evidence from Early 20th Century America
American Law and Economics Review
2011
Can Alcohol Prohibition Reduce Violence Against Women?
American Economic Review
2015
Framing Punishment: Incarceration, Recommended Sentences, and Recidivism
The Journal of Law and Economics
2013
Sentencing Guidelines and Judicial Discretion: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Human Calculation Errors
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
2012
The American Temperance Movement and Market-Based Violence
American Law and Economics Review
2014
Your Friends and Neighbors: Localized Economic Development and Criminal Activity
Review of Economics and Statistics
2016
Is Your Lawyer a Lemon? Incentives and Selection in the Public Provision of Criminal Defense
The Review of Economics and Statistics
2021
Understanding the U.S. Illicit Tobacco Market
Unknown Venue
2015
COPS and Cuffs
Lessons from the Economics of Crime
2013
Do Prison Administrative and Survey Data Sources Tell the Same Story? A Multitrait, Multimethod Examination With Application to Gangs
Crime & Delinquency
2019
Learning the ropes: General experience, task-Specific experience, and the output of police officers
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
2017
The effectiveness and effects of alcohol regulation: evidence from India
IZA Journal of Development and Migration
2019
Does Immigration Increase Crime?
Unknown Venue
2019
Critic Third-party policing: a critical view
Police Innovation
2006
The Economics of Policing and Public Safety
Journal of Economic Perspectives
2021
The Economics of Policing
Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics
2020
Immigration and Informal Labor
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society
2012
Truthiness in Punishment: The Far Reach of Truth-in-Sentencing Laws in State Courts
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
2011
Economic approach to “de‐policing”
Criminology & Public Policy
2019
Proactive Policing: a Summary of the Report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Asian Journal of Criminology
2019
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Community Behavioral Health Service Usage: A Comparison of Mental Health Court and Traditional Court Defendants
Criminal Justice and Behavior
2017
Informal Networks and White Collar Crime: Evidence from the Madoff Scandal
SSRN Electronic Journal
2010
Advocate
Police Innovation
2019
The Criminal Justice Response to Policy Interventions: Evidence from Immigration Reform
American Economic Review
2015
Editors' Introduction to Judgment by the Numbers: Converting Qualitative to Quantitative Judgments in Law
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
2011
Maternal Alcohol Use and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Infant Mortality Excluding SIDS
PEDIATRICS
2013
Specialization in Criminal Courts: Decision Making, Recidivism, and Re-victimization in Domestic Violence Courts in Tennessee
SSRN Electronic Journal
2021
Lynching Beyond Dixie
Unknown Venue
2013
Overview of: “Improving Civil Gang Injunctions: How Implementation Can Affect Gang Dynamics, Crime, and Violence”
Criminology & Public Policy
2013
The Effect of Alcohol Regulation on Violence Against Women: Evidence from India
SSRN Electronic Journal
2015
Using Regression Discontinuity Designs in Crime Research
Experimental Criminology
2013
Parkinson’s Disease Motor and Non-Motor Features Accompanying Insomnia and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness Symptoms, a Large Population-Based Study
OBM Geriatrics
2020
Discretion Is the Better Part of Valor: Rebutting Negative Online Client Reviews
Defense Counsel Journal
2016
Temporary versus permanent employment and psychological outcomes: the moderating effect of motives for hiring temporary workers
PsycEXTRA Dataset
2010
University of California Davis Forensic Psychiatry and California Department of State Hospitals Collaboration
University and Public Behavioral Health Organization Collaboration in Justice Contexts
2021
ONE. IDENTITY FORMATION IN LOS ANGELES
Chicanas and Chicanos in School
2005
Racial Disparities in Voting Wait Times: Evidence from Smartphone Data
Unknown Venue
2019
1. Research Problems
Conventionality Control of Domestic Law
2022
Police oversight in Ireland: Who complains, who gains?
CrimRxiv
2022
Designing Up with Value-Sensitive Design: Building a Field Guide for Ethical ML Development
2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
2022
Policing, mental health and the criminal justice system
Challenges in Mental Health and Policing
2022
The geography of crime and policing
A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime
2022
Characteristics and priorities of patients temporarily-housed in project roomKey
Social determinants and vulnerable populations
2022
Teachers’ and Administrators’ Perceptions of Police-to-Student Encounters: The Impact of Student Race, Police Legitimacy, and Legal Authoritarianism
Race and Justice
2020
Alternative Education Program Placements: Racialized Recidivism Disparities and Effects on Dropout and Incarceration Outcomes
Proceedings of the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting
2022
Pilot Study: Improving Court Outcomes Improving Criminal Justice Outcomes for People Experiencing Housing Instability in Shasta County, California
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
2020
The future of evaluation of child and adolescent psychiatric treatments
IACAPAP ArXiv
2021
Advancing the Bioeconomy: From Waste to Conversion-Ready Feedstocks Workshop Summary Report
Unknown Venue
2021
Biopower Technical Strategy Workshop Summary Report
Unknown Venue
2010
Borderland Circuitry
Unknown Venue
2022
The Consent Justification for Benefit–Cost Analysis
Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
2020
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
The Concise Dictionary of Crime and Justice
2002
Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System
Encyclopedia of Social Work
2018
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
Southern Spaces
2015
Legalizing marijuana: drug policy reform and prohibition politics
Choice Reviews Online
2005
Does Federal Financial Aid Affect College Enrollment? Evidence from Drug Offenders and the Higher Education Act of 1998
Unknown Venue
2013
Book Reviews
Landscapes
2011
Abstracts from Current Literature
Journal of Histotechnology
1998
Gang Injunctions Outside California
Gang Injunctions and Abatement
2011

Education

University of Maryland, College Park

PhD, Economics / 2007

College Park, Maryland, United States of America

University of Maryland, College Park

MA, Economics / 2005

College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Brown University

BS, Applied Math and Economics / 2002

Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Experience

University of California Irvine

Professor, Department of Criminology, Law and Society / 2018Present

Professor, Department of Economics / 2018Present

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