The April 5 discussion seminar examines Prof Loury's first talk entitled "Ghettos, Prisons and Racial Backlash" (which was given on 4/4/07). This talk presented an historical, political and sociological study of the role race has played, and continues to play, in the remarkable post-1970 transformation of America's punishment policies. DISCUSSANTS: L. BOBO (Stanford), P. KARLAN (Stanford Law).
The April 6 discussion seminar exmines Prof Loury's second talk entitled "Social Identity and the Ethics of Punishment" (which was given on 4/5/07). This talk focused on the ethics of punishment in a "divided society" (elaborating a social scientific and an ethical critique of the "politics of personal responsibility" that emerged out of the culture wars of the 1980s). DISCUSSANTS: T. SHELBY (Harvard), L. WACQUANT (Berkeley).