The readings are below, but RSVP here so we know how much food to order! This week's topic is Race and Plea Bargaining. We'll post some discussion questions in the coming week, but wanted to get these readings disseminated in the mean time. This first week's readings examine plea bargaining through a few lenses: prosecutors and remedies they might enact (Davis), defense counsel and their complicity in the bargaining system (Edkins), and bargaining of immigration consequences for noncitizens (Eagly). Anyhow - here are the readings for January 20th:
Here are the readings for November 18:
Settlement Is Approved in Central Park Jogger Case, but New York Deflects Blame, New York Times (Sept. 5, 2014) (video included) In Interrogations, Teenagers Are Too Young to Know Better, New York Times (Oct. 13, 2014) As always, please let us know if you are planning to attend; we want to make sure we have enough seats and enough food. Here are the readings for October 28:
James Baldwin, Fifth Avenue, Uptown, Esquire (July 1960) James Baldwin, A Report from Occupied Territory, The Nation, July 11, 1966 Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying, ch. 1 (1993) As always, please let us know if you are planning to attend; we want to make sure we have enough seats and enough food. The SLS Reading Group on Race and Criminal Justice will reconvene at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 14. New participants are welcome, so please join us! Here are the readings we will be discussing:
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration, The Atlantic (Oct. 2015) Jeffrey Toobin, The Milwaukee Experiment, The New Yorker, May 11, 2015 Please let us know if you are planning to attend; we want to make sure we have enough seats and enough food. Our last meeting of the academic year will be on Wednesday, May 27, at 7:00 p.m. We will be taking a comparative perspective on race and policing. Here are the readings:
Michael Tonry, Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Immigration (2014) (skim) The Numbers in Black and White: Ethnic Disparities in the Policing and Prosecution of Drug Offenses in England and Wales (2013) (skim) Tariq Ramadan, Fear will only fuel the riots, Guardian, Nov. 11, 2005 Alexander Stille, Can the French Talk About Race?, New Yorker, July 11, 2014 France awaits landmark ruling on "racial profiling" ID checks, Guardian, Feb. 25, 2015 France police cleared over Zyed and Bouna 2005 deaths, BBC, May 18, 2015 As always, please let us know if you're coming. The SLS Reading Group on Race and Criminal Justice will meet again at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13. We will be discussing Ferguson and Baltimore. Here are the readings:
U.S. Dep't of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department (Mar. 4, 2015) George Ciccarrello-Maher, Riots Work, Salon (May 4, 2015) If you don't have time to read the entire Ferguson report, here is a useful summary. As always, please RSVP if you are planning to attend; we want to make sure to order enough food. The next meeting of the SLS Reading Group on Race and Criminal Justice will be on Wednesday, April 22, at 7 p.m. We will be discussing Jill Leovy's book, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America. The library has placed four copies of the book on reserve for us. If you are planning to come on April 22, would you please let us know? (Leovy will be speaking at SLS at lunch on April 28.)
Here are the readings for Feb. 24:
Black Lives Matter: Eliminating Racial Inequity in the Criminal Justice System (The Sentencing Project, 2015) Randall Kennedy, Race, Crime, and the Law, ch. 1 (Vintage ed. 1998) FBI Director Speaks Out on Race and Police Bias, N.Y. Times, Feb. 12, 2015 As always, please let us know if you plan to come. We hope you can make it! The readings for Feb. 10 focus on community policing. They consist of an insightful ten-year-old article by Professor James Forman Jr. assessing the strengths and weaknesses of community policing, a shorter, more recent essay about community policing in Richmond, California, and two brief updates about the Richmond Department:
James Forman Jr., Community Policing and Youth as Assets (2004) Steve Early, Police Violence Is Not Inevitable: Four Ways a California Police Chief Connected Cops With Communities (Nov. 2014) Fallout Grows Over Richmond Police Chief's Participation in #BlackLives Matter Protest, San Jose Mercury News, Dec. 15, 2014 Richmond Police Officer Will Not Face Charges in Deadly Shooting, San Jose Mercury News, Jan. 21, 2014 If you'd like to learn more about community policing, here are some optional, supplementary readings: Christopher Stone et al., Policing Los Angeles Under a Consent Decree: The Dynamics of Change at the LAPD (2009) (This is a detailed, data-heavy assessment of police reform in Los Angeles. If you're interested but short on time, just read the two-page executive summary.) David Alan Sklansky, The Persistent Pull of Police Professionalism (2011) (Read if you want to know more about the history of community policing and how the movement lost steam.) If you are coming on February 10 (and we hope you are!), please let us know as soon as possible so we can be sure to order enough food. |
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