ISAP Researchers' Profiles

Angela Hawken, Ph.D.

Angela Hawken, Ph.D. is an economist and policy analyst at the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP) and an Assistant Professor of economics and policy analysis at the School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. Before coming to the United States, she was a professor of economics and econometrics at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Hawken was the lead analyst on the cost-benefit study of the statewide evaluation of the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000 (Proposition 36). She is the principal investigator of the evaluation of Hawaii’s swift and certain sanctions program (HOPE Probation).

Education and Training

• The RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, CA, Ph.D., Policy Analysis, 2005
• The RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, CA, M.Phil., Policy Analysis, 2000
• The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, M.A., Economics, 1998
• The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Honors Degree, Economics, 1995
• The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, B.Com, Economics, 1994

Specialties

Contact Info

UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs
1640 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90025

Selected Publications

Angela Hawken and Mark Kleiman (2007) “HOPE for Reform: What a Novel Probation Program in Hawaii Might Teach Other States” The American Prospect  April 10, 2007. http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=12628

Angela Hawken, Douglas Anglin, and Douglas Longshore (2007 “Treatment Disparities following Drug Policy Reform”. California Policy Research Center. (in press)

Angela Hawken, Ph.D., Douglas Longshore, Ph.D., Darren Urada, Ph.D., and M. Douglas Anglin, Ph.D. (2007) “Benefit-Cost Analysis of California’s Proposition 36”.  Prepared for the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs California Health and Human Services Agency.
http://www.adp.cahwnet.gov/sacpa/

Angela Hawken, Darren Urada, and Douglas Anglin (2007) “Funding Implications of Improvements to SACPA” Prepared for the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs California Health and Human Services Agency for release in January 2007.
http://www.adp.cahwnet.gov/sacpa/

Angela Hawken, Douglas Anglin, and Bradley Conner (2007) “Treatment Differences” Prepared for the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs California Health and Human Services Agency.
http://www.adp.cahwnet.gov/sacpa/

Douglas Longshore, Angela Hawken, Scott Hiromoto, Dan Du, and Travis Bunch (2007) “SACPA and Criminal Justice Trends”, Prepared for the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs California Health and Human Services Agency for release in January 2007.
http://www.adp.cahwnet.gov/sacpa/

Douglas Anglin, Darren Urada, Mary-Lynn Brecht, Angela Hawken, Richard  Rawson, and Douglas Longshore (2007) “Treatment Admissions for Methamphetamine Use in California: A Focus on SACPA (Proposition 36)” Journal of Psychoactive Drugs (forthcoming).

Angela Hawken and Gerardo L. Munck, "Measuring Corruption. A Critical Assessment and a Proposal," Prepared for the United Nations Development Program, Asia Pacific Human Development Report, Bangkok, Thailand, October 6, 2006.

Angela Hawken, Douglas Longshore, Darren Urada and Douglas Anglin (2006) “Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act: Cost Analyses Report” Prepared for the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs California Health and Human Services Agency.  http://www.adp.cahwnet.gov/sacpa/pdf/UCLA_SACPA_CostAnalysisReport
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Douglas Longshore, Darren Urada, Elizabeth Evans, Yih-Ing Hser, Michael Prendergast, and Angela Hawken (2005) “Evaluation of the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act: 2004 Report”.  Prepared for the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs California Health and Human Services Agency.  http://www.adp.cahwnet.gov/sacpa/pdf/UCLA_SACPA_Evaluation2004.pdf

Douglas Longshore, Darren Urada, Elizabeth Evans, Yih-Ing Hser, Michael Prendergast, Angela Hawken, Travis Bunch, and Susan Ettner (2004) “Evaluation of the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act: 2003 Report”.  Prepared for the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs California Health and Human Services Agency.  http://www.adp.cahwnet.gov/sacpa/pdf/UCLA_SACPA_Evaluation2003.pdf

Angela Hawken with Peter Greenwood (2002) “An Assessment of the Effects of California’s Three Strikes Law,” Greenwood Consulting, paper prepared for the RAND Three Strikes Round Table.

Last updated - 07/20/2007

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