Ivy League Schools Join Together to Spread Awareness

As part of our work, we come across events consistent with our Purpose. This University of Minnesota mini-conference has guest speakers from some of the most prestigious schools, and available to the public for free.

The New Inequalities: Race, Crime, and the Life Course in the Era of Hyper-Incarceration.

Co-Sponsored by Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice (Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs), the College of Liberal Arts, and the Department of Sociology.

• Sara Wakefield, University of California-Irvine
  "Mass Incarceration and the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality"
• Jason Schnittker, University of Pennsylvania
  "Incarceration and Health: Results, Mechanisms, and Processes"
• Keynote Speaker: Bruce Western, Harvard University
  "From Inequality to Insecurity: A Longitudinal Perspective on Stratification"
• Carla Shedd, Columbia University
  "Arresting Development: Urban Youth and the End of Adolescence"
• Devah Pager, Princeton University (presented by co-author Michelle Phelps)
  "The Prison as a Socializing Institution

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