Robert (Rob) MacCoun
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Richard
& Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy |
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Drug Use, Drug Dealing, and
Drug Policy
MacCoun, R. J. (working draft). Sex, drugs, and skateboarding: Public support for prevalence reduction vs. harm reduction.
Pacula, R. L., MacCoun, R., Reuter, P., Chriqui, J., Harris, K. (working draft). Do citizens know whether they live in a decriminalization state? State marijuana laws and perceptions.
MacCoun, R. J.
(in press). Bridging the gap between
science and drug policy: From
“what” and “how” to “whom” and
“when” (invited comment). Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
MacCoun, R. J.,
& Reuter, P. (in press). The
implicit rules of evidence-based drug policy: A US perspective (invited
comment). International
Journal of Drug Policy.
MacCoun, R. J., & Martin, K. (in press). Drug use and drug policy in
a prohibition regime. Prepared for M. Tonry (ed.), The Oxford handbook of crime and
public policy.
Reuter, P., & MacCoun, R. J. (2007, November/December). Invited comment on Ethan Nadelmann’s “Think again: Drugs.” Foreign Policy, pp. 4-5.
MacCoun, R. J. (2007). Testing drugs vs. testing users: Private risk management in the shadow of the criminal law. DePaul Law Review, 56, 507-538.
Pacula, R. L., MacCoun, R., Reuter, P., Chriqui, J., Kilmer, B., Harris, K., Paoli, L., & Schaefer, C. (2005). What does it mean to decriminalize marijuana? A cross-national empirical examination. In B. Lindgren & M. Grossman (eds.), Substance use: Individual behaviour, social interactions, markets and politics (pp. 347-370). Elsevier/North-Holland.
Caulkins, J., & MacCoun, R. (2005).
Deterring imperfectly rational actors: The case of drug enforcement (pp.
315-338). In Francesco Parisi and Vernon Smith (eds.), The law and
economics of irrational behavior.
MacCoun, R. J. (2004). Anticipating
unintended consequences of vaccine-like immunotherapies for addictive drug use.
In H. R. Harwood & T. G. Myers (eds.), New treatments for addiction:
Behavioral, ethical, legal, and social questions. National Research Council and the
Kilmer, B., & MacCoun, R. J. (2004). Public policy on addictive disorders. In R. Coombs (ed.), Addictive disorders: A practical handbook. Wiley.
MacCoun, R. (2004). Population thinking as an adjunct to the clinical trial (invited editorial). Psychiatric Services, 55, 509-510, 515.
MacCoun, R. J. (2003). Is the addiction concept useful for drug
policy? In R. Vuchinich & N. Heather (eds.), Choice,
behavioural economics and addiction.
MacCoun, R. J. (2003). Comments on
Chaloupka, Emery, and Laing. In R. Vuchinich & N. Heather
(eds.), Choice, behavioural economics and addiction.
MacCoun, R., Kilmer, B., & Reuter,
P. (2003, September). Research
on drug-crime linkages: The next generation (commissioned paper). In
Toward a drugs and crime research agenda for the 21st century. National
MacCoun, R. (2003, 11 June). O cannabis! Pot decriminalization in Canada highlights America's isolation. San Francisco Chronicle, A27.
Caulkins, J., & MacCoun, R. (2003). Limited rationality and the limits of supply reduction. Journal of Drug Issues, 33, 433-464.
Reuter, P., & MacCoun, R. (2002).
Heroin maintenance: Is a
MacCoun, R. J., & Reuter, P. (2002). Marijuana, heroin, and cocaine. [Their title, not ours!] The American Prospect, 13(30), 25-28.
MacCoun, R., & Reuter, P. (eds.)
(2002). The varieties of drug control at the dawn of the
21st century. Special issue of the Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science, 582, July.
MacCoun, R., & Reuter, P. (2002). The varieties of drug control at the dawn of
the 21st century (overview essay) . Annals of the
MacCoun, R., & Reuter, P. (2001).
Drug war heresies: Learning from other vices, times, and
places.
Manski, C., Pepper, J., & Petrie, C.
(2001). Informing
America's policy on illegal drugs: What we don't know keeps hurting us
.
Statement of the Federation
of American Scientists Drug Policy Project to the U.S. Sentencing Commission:
Comment on the proposed changes to MDMA ("Ecstacy") penalties ,
MacCoun, R., & Reuter, P. (2001). Evaluating alternative cannabis regimes. British Journal of Psychiatry, 178, 123-128.
MacCoun, R., & Reuter, P. (1999). Does Europe do it better? Lessons from Holland, Britain, and Switzerland. The Nation, September 20th, Special issue entitled "Beyond Legalization: New Ideas For Ending The War On Drugs."
Invited testimony ,
Hearing on "Drug Decriminalization," House Committee on Government
Reform and Oversight, Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human
Resources,
MacCoun, R. J. (1998). Breaking the impasse in American
drug policy. In E. L. Rubin (Ed.), Minimizing harm: A new crime policy for
modern
MacCoun, R. (1998). Toward a psychology of harm reduction. American
Psychologist, 53, 1199-1208. [Earlier draft appeared as "The
psychology of harm reduction: Alternative strategies for modifying high-risk
behavior," in 1996 Wellness Lectures (pp. 1-27).
MacCoun, R., & Reuter, P. (1998).
Drug control. In M. Tonry (Ed.), The handbook of crime and punishment
(pp. 207-238).
MacCoun, R. (1998). In what sense (if any) is marijuana a gateway drug? Drug Policy Analysis Bulletin, 4, 5-8.
MacCoun, R., & Reuter, P. (1997). Interpreting Dutch cannabis policy: Reasoning by analogy in the legalization debate. Science, 278, 47-52.
Federation of American Scientists Drug Policy Project (1997). Principles for practical drug policies . [This is not my publication; I was a co-signer, and a co-presenter at the press conference. I post it here for interested readers.]
MacCoun, R. J. (1996). Is melioration the addiction theory of choice? (invited commentary) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 586-587.
Reuter, P., & MacCoun, R. (1996). Harm reduction and social policy: Should addicts be paid? Drug and Alcohol Review, 15, 225-230.
MacCoun, R., Reuter, P., &
Schelling, T. (1996). Assessing alternative drug control regimes. Journal
of Policy Analysis and Management, 15, 1-23. [Reprinted
in
Reuter, P., & MacCoun, R. (1995). Drawing lessons from the absence of harm reduction in American drug policy. Tobacco Control, 4 (Supplement 2), S28-S32.
Saner, H., MacCoun, R. J., & Reuter, P. (1995). On the ubiquity of drug selling among youthful offenders in Washington, D.C., 1985-1991: Age, period, or cohort effect? Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 11, 337-362.
MacCoun, R. J., Model, K.,
Phillips-Shockley, H., & Reuter, P. (1995). Comparing
drug policies in
Reuter, P., & MacCoun, R. J. (1995).
Assessing the legalization debate. In G. Estievenart (Ed.), Policies
and strategies to combat drugs in
MacCoun, R. J., & Caulkins, J.
(1996). Examining the
behavioral assumptions of the national drug control strategy. In W.
K. Bickel & R. J. DeGrandpre (Eds.), Drug policy and human nature:
Psychological perspectives on the prevention, management, and treatment of
illicit drug use (pp. 177-197).
Reuter, P., Falco, M., & MacCoun, R.
J. (1993). Comparing Western
European and North American drug policies: An international conference report.
MacCoun, R. J., Kahan, J., Gillespie, J., & Rhee, J. (1993). A content analysis of the drug legalization debate. Journal of Drug Issues, 23, 615-629.
MacCoun, R., Reuter, P., Kahan, J.,
& Saiger, A. (1993). Drug policies and
problems: The promise and pitfalls of cross-national comparisons. In N.
Heather, A. Wodak, E. Nadelmann, & P. O'Hare (Eds.), Psychoactive drugs
and harm reduction: From faith to science (pp. 103-117),
MacCoun, R. J. (1993). Drugs and the law: A psychological analysis of drug prohibition. Psychological Bulletin, 113, 497-512.
Reuter, P., & MacCoun, R. J. (1992).
Street drug markets in inner-city neighborhoods: Matching policy to reality. In
J. B. Steinberg, D. W. Lyon, & M. E. Vaiana (Eds.), Urban
MacCoun, R. J., & Reuter, P. (1992). Are the wages of sin $30 an hour? Economic aspects of street-level drug dealing. Crime and Delinquency, 38, 477-491.
Reuter, P., MacCoun, R. J., and Murphy,
P. (1990). Money from crime: A study of the
economics of drug dealing in Washington, D.C.
Judgment and
Decision Making (especially by juries)
Tenney, E. R., Spellman, B. A., &
MacCoun, R. J. (in press). The benefits of knowing what you
know (and what you don’t): Fact-finders rely on others who are well
calibrated. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Robbennolt, J., Darley, J., &
MacCoun, R. J. (in press). Constraint satisfaction and judging. To appear in David Klein & Gregory Mitchell
(eds.), The psychology of judicial decision making,
MacCoun, R. J. (2008). Complex evidence in litigation. In B. L. Cutler (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law.
Kerr, N. L., & MacCoun, R. J. (2008). Juries and the leniency bias. In B. L. Cutler (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law.
Tenney, E. R., MacCoun, R. J., Spellman, B. A., & Hastie, R. (2007). Calibration trumps confidence as a basis for witness credibility. Psychological Science, 18, 46-50.
MacCoun, R. J. (2006). Psychological constraints on transparency in legal and government decision making. In A. Gosseries (ed.), Symposium on publicity and accountability in governance, Swiss Political Science Review,12, 112-123.
MacCoun, R. J. (2006). The relativity of
judgment as a challenge for behavioral law and economics (Invited Essay),
MacCoun, R. J. (2005). Comparing legal factfinders:
Real and mock, amateur and professional.
Robbennolt, J. K., Darley, J. M., &
MacCoun, R. J. (2003). Symbolism and incommensurability in civil
sanctioning: Decision-makers as goal managers.
MacCoun, R. (2002). Comparing micro and macro rationality.
In M. V. Rajeev Gowda and Jeffrey Fox (Eds.), Judgments, decisions, and
public policy.
MacCoun, R. J. (2000). The costs and benefits of letting juries punish corporations: Comment on Viscusi. Stanford Law Review, 52, 1821-1828.
Vidmar, N., Lempert, R. O., Diamond, S. S., Hans, V. P., Landsman, S., MacCoun, R., Sanders, J., Hosch, H. M., Kassin, S., Galanter, M., Eisenberg, T., Daniels, S., Greene, E., Martin, J., Penrod, S., Richardson, J., Heuer, L., & Horowitz, I. (2000). Amicus brief: Kumho Tire v. Carmichael. Law & Human Behavior, 24, 387-400.
Anderson, M. C., & MacCoun, R. J. (1999). Goal conflict in juror assessments of compensatory and punitive damages. Law & Human Behavior, 23, 313-330.
Kerr, N., MacCoun, R. J., & Kramer, G. (1996). Bias in judgment: Comparing individuals and groups. Psychological Review, 103, 687-719. [for an Adobe Acrobat formatted (*.pdf) version, click here ]
Kerr, N. L., MacCoun, R. J., &
Kramer, G. P. (1996). When are N heads better (or worse) than one?
Biased judgment in individuals vs. groups. In E. Witte & J. H. Davis
(Eds.), Understanding group behavior (Vol. 1): Consensual action by small
groups (pp. 105-136).
MacCoun, R. J. (1996). Differential treatment of corporate defendants by juries: An examination of the 'deep pockets' hypothesis. Law and Society Review, 30, 121-161.
MacCoun, R. J. (1993). Inside the
black box: What empirical research tells us about decisionmaking by civil juries.
In R. E. Litan (Ed.), Verdict: Assessing the civil jury system (pp.
137-180),
MacCoun, R. J. (1990). The emergence of extralegal bias during jury deliberation. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 17, 303-314.
MacCoun, R. J. (1989). Experimental research on jury decision making. Science,
244, 1046-1050. [Reprinted in Jurimetrics: Journal of Law, Science, and Technology,
1990, 30, 223-233.] [Reprinted in R. M. Krivoshey (Ed.)(1994),
MacCoun, R. J., & Kerr, N. L. (1988). Asymmetric influence in mock jury deliberation: Jurors' bias for leniency. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54, 21-33.
MacCoun, R. J. (1987). Getting inside the black box:
Toward a better understanding of civil jury behavior.
Kerr, N. L., MacCoun, R. J., Hansen, C. H., & Hymes, J. A. (1987). Gaining and losing social support: Momentum in decision making groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 23, 119-145.
MacCoun, R. J. (1986). Fictional and factual juries
(review of Anatomy of a jury by
Carroll, J. S., Kerr, N. L., Alfini, J. J., Weaver, F. M., MacCoun, R. J., & Feldman, V. (1986). Free press and fair trial: The role of behavioral research. Law and Human Behavior, 10, 187-201.
MacCoun, R. J. (1985). Evaluating juror performance
(review of A. D. Austin's Complex litigation confronts the jury system). Judicature,
June-July issue. [Reprinted in the
Kerr, N. L., & MacCoun, R. J.
(1985). The effects of jury
size and polling method on the process and product of jury deliberation.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48, 349-363. [Reprinted in
L. S. Wrightsman, S. M. Kassin, and C. E. Willis (Eds.), In the jury box:
Controversies in the courtroom (pp. 209-234).
Kerr, N. L., Bull, R., MacCoun, R. J., & Rathborn, H. (1985). Effects of victim attractiveness, care, and disfigurement on the judgements of American and British mock jurors. British Journal of Social Psychology, 24, 47-58.
Legal
Dispute Resolution, Procedural and Distributive Justice
Braver, S., MacCoun, R. J., &
Ellman,
Ellman,
MacCoun, R. J. (2006). Media reporting of jury verdicts: Is
the tail (of the distribution) wagging the dog?, Clifford Symposium on Tort
Law,
MacCoun, R. J. (2005). Voice, control, and belonging: The double-edged sword of procedural fairness. Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 1 .
MacCoun, R. (2001). Public opinion about legal issues. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Kulik, C. T., Lind, E. A., Ambrose, M. L., & MacCoun, R. J. (1996). Understanding gender differences in distributive and procedural justice. Social Justice Research, 9, 351-369.
Bailis, D. S., & MacCoun, R. J. (1996). Estimating liability risks with the media as your guide: A content analysis of media coverage of civil litigation. Law and Human Behavior, 20, 419-429. [Abridged version reprinted in Judicature, 1996, 80, 64-67.]
MacCoun, R. J. (1995). Review of K. R. Foster, D. E. Bernstein, & P. W. Huber (Eds.), Phantom risk: Scientific inference and the law (MIT Press, 1993). Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 14, 168-171.
MacCoun, R. J. (1993). Blaming others to a fault? Chance, 6, 31-34 and 18.
MacCoun, R. J. (1993). Is there a deep-pockets bias in
the tort system? Institute for Civil Justice Issue Paper.
MacCoun, R. J., Lind, E. A., &
Tyler, T. R. (1992). Alternative dispute resolution
in trial and appellate courts (pp. 95-118). In D. K. Kagehiro & W. S.
Laufer (Eds.), The handbook of psychology and law.
MacCoun, R. J. (1991). Unintended consequences of court-annexed arbitration: A cautionary tale from New Jersey. Justice System Journal, 14, 229-243.
Hensler, D., Marquis, S., Abrahamse, A.,
Hensler, D., Marquis, S., Abrahamse, A.,
Lind, E. A., MacCoun, R. J., Ebener, P. A., Felstiner, W. L. F., Hensler, D. R., Resnick, J., & Tyler, T. R. (1990). In the eye of the beholder: Tort litigants' evaluations of their experiences in the civil justice system. Law and Society Review, 24, 953-996.
Lind, E. A., MacCoun, R. J., Ebener, P. A., Felstiner, W.
L. F., Hensler, D. R., Resnick, J., & Tyler, T. R. (1989). The perception of justice: Tort litigants' views of trials,
court-annexed arbitration, and judicial settlement conferences .
MacCoun, R. J., Lind, E. A., Hensler, D.
R., Bryant, D. L., & Ebener, P. (1988). Alternative
adjudication: An evaluation of the New Jersey automobile arbitration program.
MacCoun, R. J., & Tyler, T. R. (1988). The basis of citizens' perceptions of the criminal jury: Procedural fairness, accuracy and efficiency. Law and Human Behavior, 12, 333-352.
Messé, L. A., Hymes, R. W., &
MacCoun, R. J. (1986). Group categorization and distributive justice
decisions. In H. W. Bierhoff, R. L. Cohen, and J. Greenberg (Eds.), Justice
in social relations (pp. 227-248).
Group
Influence on Individual Behavior
MacCoun, R. J., Cook, P., Muschkin, C., & Vigdor, J.
(in press). Distinguishing
spurious and real norm effects: Evidence from artificial societies, small-group
experiments, and real schoolyards.
Review of Law
& Economics.
Cook, P., MacCoun, R. J., Muschkin, C., & Vigdor, J. (2008). The negative impacts of starting middle school in sixth grade. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 27, 104-121.
MacCoun, R., Kier, E., & Belkin, A. (2006). Does social cohesion determine motivation in combat? An old question with an old answer, Armed Forces and Society, 32, 646-654.
Feldman, Y., & MacCoun, R. J.
(2005). Some
well-aged wines for the “new norms” bottles: Implications of social
psychology for law and economics. In Francesco Parisi and Vernon
Smith (eds.), The law and economics of irrational behavior
(pp.358-394).
MacCoun, R. J. (2003). “Don’t ask,
don’t tell” and military unit cohesion. In A. Belkin and G.
Bateman (eds.), Don’t ask, don’t tell: Debating the gay ban in
the military (pp. 77-81).
MacCoun, R. J., & Schlossman, S. (2000, January 3). What's germane is a soldier's behavior. (Essay on
MacCoun, R. J. (1996). Sexual
orientation and military cohesion: A critical review of the evidence. In G.
M. Herek, J. B. Jobe, & R. Carney (Eds.), Out in force: Sexual
orientation and the military.
National Defense Research Institute (1993). Sexual orientation and U.S. military personnel policy:
Policy options and assessment (Report to the Secretary of Defense).
MacCoun, R. J. (1993). Unit cohesion and military performance.
In National Defense Research Institute, Sexual orientation and
Jackson, L. A., MacCoun, R. J., & Kerr, N. L. (1987). Stereotypes and nonstereotypic inferences: The effects of gender role attitudes on inferences of likeability, adjustment, and occupational potential. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 13, 45-52.
Kerr, N. L., & MacCoun, R. J. (1985). Role expectations in social dilemmas: Sex roles and task motivation in groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 49, 1547-1556.
Kerr, N. L., & MacCoun, R. J. (1984). Sex composition of groups and member motivation: Effects of relative member ability. Journal of Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 5, 255-271.
Politics and
Bias in the Research Process
MacCoun R. J., & Paletz, S. (under editorial
review). Citizens’ perceptions of ideological
bias in research on public policy controversies.
MacCoun, R. (2005). Conflicts of interest
in public policy research. In
MacCoun, R. (2003). Review of Shadish, Cook, & Campbell’s Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for generalized causal inference (book review). Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 22, 330-332.
MacCoun, R. (2002). Why a psychologist won the Nobel Prize in Economics. American Psychological Society Observer, 15(10), pp. 1, 8.
MacCoun, R. J. (2001). American distortion of Dutch drug statistics. Society, 38, 23-26. [Note that there is a typographical error; the second-to-last sentence should read "Accuracy won't invariably breed consensus," rather than "Accuracy will invariably breed consensus."]
MacCoun, R. J. (1999). Epistemological dilemmas in the assessment of legal decision making. Law & Human Behavior, 23, 723-730.
MacCoun, R. (1998). Biases in the interpretation and use of research results. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 259-287.
MacCoun, R. J., & Kerr, N. L. (1987). Suspicion in the psychological laboratory: Kelman's prophecy revisited. American Psychologist, 42, 199.
Biographical Information
Born
Education
NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1984-1986, Northwestern University
Ph.D., Psychology (Social), 1984, Michigan State University
M.A., Psychology (Social), 1983,
B.A., Psychology, 1980, Kalamazoo College
Professional Experience
1999--Visiting Professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs , Princeton University
1999-present--Professor of Law, Boalt
Hall (School of Law) , Jurisprudence
and Social Policy Program ,
1998-Present--Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy , University of California at Berkeley (Affiliated Professor, Department of Psychology)
1995-1998--Associate Professor, Goldman
1993-1995--Assistant Professor, Graduate
1993-present--Consultant, The RAND
Corporation ,
1986-1993--Behavioral Scientist, Social Policy Department,
1984-1986--NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor, Northwestern University
1984--Instructor,
Recent Teaching Interests
Law and Psychology (Graduate)
Legal Studies 181: Law and Psychology
Psychology and Public Policy Analysis (Graduate)
Research Design and Data Collection (Graduate)
Drug, Tobacco, and Alcohol Policy (Undergraduate)
Law, Economics, and Psychology course (with Bob Cooter)
Honors
1996 Distinguished Wellness Lecturer, The
Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Outstanding Teacher Award,
President's Award,
NIMH Research Service Award, Northwestern University, 1984-1986
The Marshall Hallock Brenner Prize,
Selected Professional Service (Past 5 years)
1998-2002, 2008-present: Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Law & Society Review
2007-present: Editorial Advisory Board, Law & Human Behavior.
2005-present: Editorial Board, Law and Social Inquiry.
2004-present: Member, Advisory Board, Physicians and Lawyers for National Drug Policy
2003-2007:
Chair, Police Review Board,
2002-present: Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
1998-2002: Member, Committee on Data and Research for Policy on Illegal Drugs, National Academy of Sciences
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