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Please join us for dinner and a discussion of Victor Rios's new book Human Targets on Wed., April 26 at 7 pm.
Rios is an acclaimed UC-Santa Barbara sociologist whose latest study of the criminalization of Latino youth springs from his own teenage years in Oakland. Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted, says of Human Targets: "Rios shows how gang-associated Latino youth, often written off as a ‘lost generation,’ contain multitudes of identities and brim over with promise. But broken schools and justice systems far too often blunt these children’s potential and contribute to casting them on the wrong path. Critically urgent and rendered in clear prose, Human Targets is a must-read book that asks more of us.” RSVP here to join us on April 26 to discuss this important and absorbing new look at how our institutions can do better. The location is TBD but tentatively slated for Prof. David Sklansky's house. Copies of Human Targets are available for check-out in the library or purchase for only $16 on Amazon. Our most recent book discussion attracted a big crowd and a thoughtful and enlightening discussion, so make sure you RSVP today! Dinner will be served. Please join the reading group on Wednesday, March 1 in the Law Lounge from 7-8:30 pm for our next winter meeting. We'll be having dinner and discussing readings on immigration bans, registries, and civil liberties. Lecturer in Law Steven Shapiro, former Legal Director at the American Civil Liberties Union, will join us to co-facilitate the discussion.
Readings: 1. Washington v. Trump (9th Cir. 2017) 2. "Japanese American Internment: An Interview with Fred Korematsu," Boston University Public Interest Law Journal (1993) 3. Neal Katyal, "The Solicitor General and Confession of Error" (2013) 4. Choose one (or both!) of Khaled A. Beydoun's articles: and/or
Please RSVP here. Please join the SLS Race and Criminal Justice Reading Group for our second dinner and discussion of this academic year! Thank you to everyone who came out and made our first meeting a thoughtful and fascinating evening. For anyone who couldn’t make it last time, here’s your chance - RCJRG is attend-when-you-can and everyone at SLS is welcome.
Professor David Sklansky has generously offered to host the meeting at his house on Wed., Jan. 18 at 6:30 pm. We will again be having dinner, so please RSVP here. We will discussing Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, the highly-acclaimed new book by Heather Ann Thompson. SLS Visiting Professor James Forman Jr. has written an excellent review of the book in the NY Times, calling it an “essential” book to read. As he notes, the book touches on some of the most pressing issues facing our nation today, including “racial conflict, mass incarceration, police brutality and dissembling politicians." Five copies of the book are on reserve at the Law Library, or you can order a copy off Amazon (including Kindle). This is an excellent way to stay engaged over the break while getting away from case law, and will make for an important kick-off conversation for the new year and the executive transition. We would also love your input on future meeting topics via this poll before Jan. 18. We value RCJRG as a community for critical discussion, and it thrives on your input and participation. Please chose among the topics we have listed, or suggest one of your own! We look forward to seeing you and, as always, let us know if you have any questions. Thanks, Sophia Whiting Gemma Donofrio Jared Crum RCJRG 2016-17 Co-Presidents Join us at RCJRG's next meeting at 7 pm on Wednesday, October 26. We'll have dinner and discuss the past, present, and future of stop and frisk. Bring yourself and bring a friend (but have them RSVP)! This meeting's readings draw from some of the best-written and most interesting academic and popular writing on stop and frisk. Please RSVP here to help us get a precise food order for dinner. We'll be meeting in the Manning Faculty Lounge, which is a set of rooms on the second floor breezeway between Crown and the classroom building. Thank you! Readings: 1. Daniel Bergner, The Atlantic, "Is Stop-and-Frisk Worth It?" 2. Tracey Meares, Univ. of Chicago Law Review, "Programming Errors: Understanding the Constitutionality of Stop-and-Frisk as a Program, Not an Incident." 
3. Kami Chavis Simmons, Wake Forest Law Review, "The Legacy of Stop and Frisk: Addressing the Vestiges of a Violent Police Culture."
4. Optional: Eugene Kiely, Factcheck.org, "Is Stop and Frisk Unconstitutional?" 5. Optional: Floyd v. City of New York:
6. Optional: NYPD quarterly data reports on stops and frisks.
RSVP for the Race & Criminal Justice Reading Group's final meeting next Tuesday, May 17, at 7:30 pm in the Law Lounge. We will be discussing Victor Rios's Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys. A former gang member who went on to earn a Ph.D. at Berkeley, Rios returned to his old Oakland neighborhood to shadow 40 young men as they dealt with poverty, violence, and institutionalized racism.
Copies of the book are available on reserve at Crown Library. See you next Tuesday! Our second Spring Quarter meeting will focus on counterterrorism and we will be joined by Professor Shirin Sinnar. Meeting location and readings will be posted later this week. Please RSVP to help us place the food order. The readings (don't be fooled by the number, many are SHORT):
Our first Spring Quarter meeting will focus on remedies for civil rights violations in the criminal justice system related to race. Meeting location and readings will be posted later this week. Please RSVP to help us place the food order.
See you next Monday! Our final Winter Quarter meeting will focus on the intersection of race and gender in criminal justice. Readings and any specific page/section assignments appear below. Please RSVP so we can sufficiently feed you.
See you next Monday! Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, From Private Violence to Mass Incarceration: Thinking Intersectionally About Women, Race, and Social Control. Dorothy E. Roberts, Prison, Foster Care, and the Systemic Punishment of Black Mothers Intro, Part II, Part III, Priscilla A. Ocen, The New Racially Restrictive Covenant: Race, Welfare, and the Policing of Black Women in Subsidized Housing SKIM (there are lots of great infographics!), Human Rights Project for Girls et al., The Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline: The Girls' Story The readings are below. Remember to RSVP HERE so we can order enough dinner. This week the group will take on readings about how the criminal justice system interacts with native communities, latino communities, and continues the discussion of noncitizen communities. Professor Sklansky will be back to offer his brilliance, but we will also be joined by another guest to give us a brief introduction to criminal justice and native american communities. For those paying attention to their social calendars, this week's dinner and group discussion will follow BLSA's Mural Music and Arts Project for a Black History Month Celebration in Crocker courtyard and the Law Lounge. Without further adieu, the readings:
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