Department of Sociology - Colloquium Series presentation by Mary Pattillo, Northwestern University.

 

Statutory Inequality: The Logics of Monetary Sanctions in State Law

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Who pays for the institutions of the criminal justice...

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Department of Sociology Colloquium Series presentation by Sarah Brayne, University of Texas at Austin.

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In the past decade, two structural forces intersected: the growth of criminal justice surveillance and the rise of so-called ‘big data.’ The most technologically advanced police departments now use predictive algorithms, network analyses, and other advanced analytic tools for patrol,...

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Culture and Social Analysis Workshop presentations by Hanna Katz and Derek Robey, Doctoral Students in Sociology, Harvard University. Read more about Hanna Katz: Towards a Less Lethal Policing- Departmental Variation in Police Officers' Use of Deadly Force and Derek Robey: Visibly Disconnected or Invisibly Connected: The Cases of Atheist and Muslim Stigmatization

Deparment of Sociology Colloquium Series presentation by Javier Auyero, University of Texas at Austin, Urban Ethnography Lab.

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The Culture and Social Analysis Workshop presentation by Monica C. Bell, Associate Professor Law, Yale Law School

Politics and Social Change Workshop presentation by Jean Comaroff, Professor, Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies. Read more about Jean Comaroff: The Truth About Crime: Law, Sovereignty, and the Metaphysics of Disorder in South Africa and Beyond