The Criminal Justice Research Center (CJRC) and the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law invite you to join them for the 23rdAnnual Walter C. Reckless-Simon Dinitz Memorial Lecture honoring the contributions of Walter C. Reckless and Simon Dinitz outstanding scholars in the fields of criminology and justice. Consistent with their approaches, the series draws on scholars and experts from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds to provide broad, research based intellectual exchange for scholars, and policymakers on salient crime and justice issues.
This year’s speaker is Ruth Peterson, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Retiree Faculty of the CJRC, who will speak on The Centrality of Race in Local Crime: Do External Investments Make a Difference? Peterson will show how inequality in various structural conditions of neighborhoods and cities affect crime levels and how mortgage lending matters for crime across distinct race-ethnic neighborhoods. The results demonstrate that this type of external investment may be an important starting point for reducing crime in racially and socioeconomically marginalized communities.
Doors open at 6:30 with the lecture at 7:00 p.m.. There will be a reception before and following the lecture. For more information please contact Debbie Flower-Smith at flower-smith.1@osu.eduor visit the Criminal Justice Research Center at its web site, www.cjrc.osu.edu.
