Racial Injustice

enNovember 22, 2021

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About this Episode

Professor Pam Metzger is joined by Professor Bennett Capers and Somil Trivedi to discuss racial injustice through topics such as how history has shaped racism today, the relationship between communities and punishment, abolition, and a renewed optimism about change in new generations.

This is the second episode in a five part series of criminal legal reform conversations that the Deason Center is holding in collaboration with the SMU Law Review. This podcast was edited and adapted from a live virtual event.

Panelists:

Professor Bennett Capers- Professor of Law and Director of the Center on Race, Law, and Justice, Fordham University School of Law

Somil Trivedi - Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project

Professor Pamela Metzger- Director, Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center, SMU Dedman School of Law

Resources:

The Racial Architecture of Criminal Justice. Bennett Capers

Afrofuturism, Critical Race Theory, and Policing in the Year 2044. Bennett Capers, 94 New York University Law Review 109 (2019).

Why Prosecutors Keep Letting Police Get Away With Murder, Somil Trivedi, Slate

The System Is Working the Way It Is Supposed to: The Limits of Criminal Justice Reform. Paul Butler, 2019 Freedom Center Journal (2020),

About the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center:

The Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center is a nonpartisan center for research and advocacy that combines data-driven research and compelling stories to advocate for innovative criminal justice reform.

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