|
News Release
Office of News and Information
Johns Hopkins University
3003 N. Charles Street, Suite 100
Baltimore, Maryland 21218-3843
Phone: (410) 516-7160 | Fax (410) 516-5251
|
October 9, 2000
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Leslie Rice
lnr@jhu.edu
|
Over 6,000,000 behind bars or
on parole.
Racial minorities disproportionately affected.
What's going on?
Please Come and Join a Discussion of
Race, Criminal Justice, and the War on
Drugs
4-6pm, October 17, 2000
Garrett Room, Milton Stover Eisenhower Library
Johns Hopkins University - Homewood Campus
|
Speakers:
Jamie Fellner, Associate Counsel, Human Rights
Watch
Punishment and Prejudice: Racial Disparities in the
War on Drugs, Human Rights Watch (2000)
William J. Chambliss, Professor, George
Washington University - Sociology; Past president,
American Society of Criminology
Power, Politics and Crime, Westview Press
(1999)
Peter Andreas, Assistant Professor, Reed College
- Political Science
Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide,
Cornell University Press (2000)
Drug War Politics, California University Press
(1996)
Discussant
Phil Leaf, Professor, Johns Hopkins School of
Hygiene and Public Health
Director, Hopkins Prevention Research Center,
Department of Mental Hygiene
Sponsors
Program on Social Inequality, JHU
Sociology
Dean's Office, JHU School of Arts and
Sciences
Department of Mental
Hygiene, JHU School of Hygiene and Public Health
Johns Hopkins University news releases can be found on
the
World Wide Web at
http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/
Information on automatic e-mail
delivery
of science and medical news releases is available at
the
same address.
|
Go to
Headlines@HopkinsHome Page
|