Glenn Loury & James Forman [The Glenn Show]

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Channel: Nonzero · 2017 · People & Blogs

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00:00 James's new book, Locking Up Our Own
06:32 Why black politicians backed harsh criminal laws in the 1960s
11:10 Was a punitive system inevitable given the desire to fight crime?
22:30 Was there really a 'black silent majority'?
29:46 Can social policy combat crime better than law enforcement?
36:50 The root causes of mass incarceration

Glenn Loury (Brown University) and James Forman (Yale Law School, Locking Up Our Own)

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Recorded on May 12, 2017

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