The Criminal Justice Research Center is proud to host Dr. Marie Gottschalk as the keynote speaker for the 25th Annual Walter C. Reckless-Simon Dinitz Memorial Lecture.

On April 11th, 2014, CJRC will host the Reckless-Dinitz lecture at the Barrister Club. Doors open at 3:00 p.m.. We hope to see you there, and will be happy to answer any questions you may have about the event. Please see our Events page for more details regarding the talk. Here is further information about this year's speaker:

Marie Gottschalk is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in American politics, with a focus on public policy, including criminal justice, health policy, the development of the welfare state, and business-labor relations. She is the author of, among other works, The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge, 2006), which won the 2007 Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States (Cornell, 2000). She is completing a new book, Caught: Race, Neoliberalism, and the Future of the Carceral State and American Politics, which examines the political possibilities for significantly reducing the incarceration rate in light of mounting budgetary and other pressures.