Speakers
- AffiliationAnthropology Department
- AffiliationSociology and Public Affairs
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Event Description
Join us for a conversation with Professors Laurence Ralph (Anthropology) and Patrick Sharkey (Sociology and Public Affairs) about their latest books, The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence (2019) and an Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence (2018). This informal dialog will focus on ethnographic and quantitative methods to study urban policing and violence, as well as the ways scholarship can inform political movements and policy debates.