An Institute for Excellence in Justice Seminar: Why We Can Fix America's Scandal of Violence, Race, and Prison
David Kennedy, Director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control and Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York)
Joined by expert panelist Dr. Deanna Wilkinson (Associate Professor, Department of Family Sciences, OSU), and a second panelist to be announced shortly.
February 7, 2013
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Location: Psychology Building, Room 035, OSU Campus,
1835 Neil Avenue, Columbus OH 43210.
The Neil Avenue Garage is the nearest parking facility, and is located at 1801 Neil Avenue.
Coffee, bagels and refreshments are being served
Abstract: The United States faces two closely linked and appalling problems: extraordinarily high rates of serious violence and extraordinarily high rates of incarceration, both concentrated in poor minority, especially black, communities. There are now proved approaches that dramatically reduce that violence while also reducing arrest and incarceration and resetting relationships between community and law enforcement. The work has revealed unexpected facts about what lies behind the violence, and unexpected ways in which law enforcement, communities, and even offenders want the same things. Kennedy, who has been central to designing these approaches, will trace their development, their underlying logic, and the potential they have for resetting how the nation thinks about and addresses violence.
Biography: Professor David Kennedy directed the Boston Gun Project, whose "Operation Ceasefire" intervention was responsible for a more than sixty per cent reduction in youth homicide victimization and won the Ford Foundation Innovations in Government award; the Herman Goldstein International Award for Problem-Oriented Policing, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police Webber Seavey Award. He developed the High Point drug market intervention strategy, which also won an Innovations in Government Award. He helped design and field the Justice Department's Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative, the Treasury Department's Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative, and the Bureau of Justice Assistance's Drug Market Intervention Program. His latest book, Don't Shoot, One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America was published by Bloomsbury in September 2011.
