Race & Criminal Justice:
Conversations about the System
Mansfield Institute for Social Justice

Co-Sponsored By Human Relations Foundation/Jane Addams Policy Initiative and Mansfield Institute for Social Justice, Roosevelt University

National crime rates are down, yet incarceration rates are up. Several factors contribute to this dynamic including federal and local policy, economic instability, police & community relations, and sentencing requirements. Join us as we discuss two potential contributing and interrelated factors: media imagery and racial profiling.

Crime, Fear & the Media
October 27, 2004
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Congress Lounge
Roosevelt University
430 S. Michigan
Guest Speaker: Dr. Dennis Rome
Author of Black Demons: Mass Media’s Depiction of the African
American Male Criminal

Racial Profiling
November 15, 2004
8:30 am – 10:30 am
Old Faculty Lounge, Room 244
Roosevelt University
430 S. Michigan
Guest Speaker: Dr. David Harris
Author of Profiles in Injustice: Why Racial Profiling Cannot Work
and the forthcoming, Good Cops: The Case for Preventive Policing

For reservations, call 312-906-8600, ext. 165