Professor David M. Kennedy, director of Center for Crime Prevention and professor, Department of Anthropology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York City, and author of "DON'T SHOOT: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America" will give a lecture titled "Why We CAN Fix America's Scandal of Violence, Race, and Prison".
The United States faces two closely linked and appalling problems: extraordinarily high rates of serious violence and extraordinarily high rates of incarceration, both concentrated in poor minority, especially black, communities. There are now proved approaches that dramatically reduce that violence while also reducing arrest and incarceration and resetting relationships between community and law enforcement. The work has revealed unexpected facts about what lies behind the violence, and unexpected ways in which law enforcement, communities, and even offenders want the same things. Kennedy, who has been central to designing these approaches, will trace their development, their underlying logic, and the potential they have for resetting how the nation thinks about and addresses violence.
Bagels, muffins, coffee and juice will be served.
For more info, contact Debbie Flower-Smith.
