Racism infects every aspect of the criminal justice system. A panel of UC Berkeley professors will look at issues concerning race and criminal justice.
July 27, 12:50pm
Speakers include:
Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean & Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Nikki Jones, Professor, UC Berkeley Department of African American Studies
Armando Lara-Millan, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley Department of Sociology
Which Feminisms?
Policing and Residential Segregation: Toward a Research and Policy Agenda
Reception to follow in 420 Barrows Hall
The Difficulty of Democracy in Democratic Socialism
Why do some religious groups protect victims of genocide while others do not? This book argues that local religious minorities are more likely to save persecuted groups. Two reinforcing mechanisms link minority status to rescue operations. First, religious minorities are better able to set up clandestine organizations because their members are more committed. Second, religious minorities empathize with targets of purification campaigns, imbuing their networks with preferences that lead them to resist genocide.
Whom Do You Believe? Assessing Credibility of the Accuser and Accused in Sexual Assault
Professor David Harding is the Principal Investigator of a new 5-year $3 Million NSF-funded project titled, "Undergraduate Data Science Education at Scale," that will evaluate, refine, and disseminate UC Berkeley's innovative data science undergraduate education program.
Paradoxes of Survivorhood: Becoming Legible after Domestic Violence
Gender is changing rapidly in the twenty-first century, with boundaries becoming more mutable, liminal, and flexible. Survey-based research can help identify sites of gender inequality at the population level, but much of its implementation still reflects a narrow and flat categorization of individuals into two groups: male and female.