Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice

​The United States continues to grapple with creating an accurate, national picture of racial inequality in crime and justice. Criminal justice reform requires policies that interrogate and solve for the historical legacy of racial exclusion and structural inequalities. 

Please join us in-person for a discussion with Bruce Western, Bryce Professor of Sociology and Social Justice and Director of the Justice Lab at Columbia University; and Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Director of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project; co-chairs of the recent National Academies of Science publication on “Reducing Racial Inequity in Crime and Justice: Science, Practice, and Policy.” Susan Sandra Smith, Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice and Faculty Director of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, will provide an introduction.  

Lunch will be served starting at 11:30 AM. The discussion will start promptly at noon and will be followed by Q+A.  

This event is hosted by the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project (IARA) at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at the Malcom Wiener Center for Social Policy and co-sponsored by the HKS Black Student Union. It is part of the IARA Changemaker Series Lunch Seminar. ​