2:02 p.m., April 10, 2007--“Does Drug Policy Make a Difference? An Assessment of 25 Years of U.S. Drug Policy” is the topic of a lecture scheduled for 4 p.m., Thursday, April 26, in 120 Smith Hall. Peter Reuter, professor of public policy and criminology at the University of Maryland, will deliver the talk, which is free and open to the public.

Reuter, who has a doctorate in economics from Yale, is director of the University of Maryland's program on the economics of crime and justice policy. He edited of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management from 1999-2004 and founded and directed Rand Corp.'s Drug Policy Research Center from 1989-1993.

Reuter's early research focused on the organization of illegal markets and resulted in the publication of Disorganized Crime: The Economics of the Visible Hand, which won the Leslie Wilkins award as most outstanding book of the year in criminology and criminal justice. In 2001 he co-authored Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Places, Times and Vices, and recently he co-authored Chasing Dirty Money: The Fight Against Money Laundering.

Reuter's talk is sponsored by UD's Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies and the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. For more information, call (302) 831-3204.