This year, CrimSL is hosting a new series on criminological and sociolegal dimensions of anti-Black racism, Indigenous peoples, and settler colonialism.
On Friday, November 20th (1:00–2:30pm), Dr. Yanilda María González (Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School) presented research on race, policing and democratization in Latin America.
Video from this event is now available on YouTube: Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America
On Thursday, January 21st, 2021 (2:00–3:30pm), Dr. Ayodele Akenroye (Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies) will explore 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 (2:00–3:30pm), Dr. Michele Goodwin (Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine and founding director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy) will present research from her recent book, Policing the Womb
The list of events will be updated as more speakers are announced.
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