Imagining The Peculiar Indifference to Violence on Black Ame
November 14, 2021
Our guest today on the Radical Imagination is Elliott Currie, a Pulitzer prize finalist author, a leading expert on the criminal legal system and a professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. He's a renowned scholar and author of many works on crime, juvenile delinquency, drug abuse and social policy.
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