Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

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Channel: Stanford Law School · 2017 · Education

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Tuesday, May 9, 2017
5:00 - 7:00pm - Discussion
Paul Brest Hall, Stanford University

This panel discussed the themes raised in Yale legal scholar and former public defender James Forman Jr.’s new book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. Professor Forman is visiting at Stanford Law School this academic year.

Speakers:

Ralph Richard Banks
Professor, Stanford Law School

Ronald Davis
Former Police Chief, East Palo Alto; Former Director, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), U.S. Department of Justice (COPS Office)

James Forman Jr.
Professor, Yale Law School

Elizabeth Hinton
Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies, Harvard University

Donna Murch
Associate Professor of History, Rutgers

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