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Democratic Policing and Officer Well-Being
Kimberly Burke will present findings from her recent mixed-method study, which provides new evidence about the impact of institutional prioritization of procedurally just and community-oriented policing tactics on officer well-being and occupational stress. Specifically, this research speaks to a body of knowledge evidencing that patrol police officers experience routine occupational discontent emergent from failed or poorly drafted attempts to improve police-community relationships. While these top-down institutional efforts to build trust and mutual respect between officers and the communities they serve…
From the Edge of the Ghetto: The Quest of Small City African-Americans to Survive Post-Industrialism
Alford A. Young, Jr. will discuss his new book, which presents a case for how configurations of race, class, and gender surface for lower-income African Americans in their struggle to come to terms with post-industrialism.
Exclusion and Extraction: A Symposium on Criminal Justice Contact and Labor Reallocation
Featuring legal scholars, social scientists, justice reform leaders, and others, this symposium will highlight emerging research on the role of the penal state in shaping the flow of individuals into and out of the labor market. Panels will examine how the state excludes justice-involved individuals from labor market opportunities, while also extracting labor from the same individuals caught in the web of various penal arrangements. Program Schedule and panel details forthcoming. Participants Organized by Sandra Susan Smith, UC Berkeley Panelists…