Over the past year year, CrimSL hosted four events in a new series on criminological and sociolegal dimensions of anti-Black racism, Indigenous peoples, and settler colonialism. 
On Friday, November 20th, Dr. Yanilda María González (Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School) presented research on race, policing and democratization in Latin America.
On Thursday, January 21st, 2021, Dr. Ayodele Akenroye (Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies) explored how new digital technologies, particularly videoconferencing technology, are radically changing the social landscape in which the judge as authoritative and the court as legitimate are stripped bare and subject to further interrogation.
On Thursday, March 11th, 2021, Dr. Michele Goodwin (Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine and founding director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy) presented research from her recent book, Policing the Womb
On Friday, March 26th, 2021, Dr. Jinee Lokaneeta (Professor and Chair of Political Science and International Relations, Drew University) presented research from her new book, The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India.
Next story: Interview with Kamari Clarke