Crime, Race, and Politics in the Era of Covid 19
Experts decode the data to expose what we know and, just as important, what we don’t know about recent shifts in crime.
Related to: Incarceration, Racial Justice, COVID-19
Rates of violent crime have been rising in some cities in recent weeks and this uptick is rapidly becoming politicized. These changes in crime levels come in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic and renewed calls for racial justice.
This conversation among experts decodes the data to expose what we know and, just as important, what we don’t know about recent shifts in crime.
Speakers:
Richard Rosenfeld, Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri – St. Louis
Jody David Armour, Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Pamela F. Rodriguez, President and CEO of TASC, Inc.
Moderated by Ashley Nellis, Senior Research Analyst, The Sentencing Project
