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Apr 18, 2017 · James Forman Jr. may change the way you think about the mass incarceration of African-Americans on drug charges. Foreman is a law professor at Yale who used to be a public defender in Washington, D.C.
In this Review of James Forman, Jr.’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, Darren Hutchinson reconciles Forman’s research with antiracist accounts of U.S. crime policy. Literature on implicit bias, social dominance orientation, and right-wing authoritarianism contextualizes black punitive sentiment within antisubordination criminal law theory.
May 11, 2018 · In Locking Up Our Own, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Forman Jr. argues that African-American leaders helped shape policies that harmed black communities. Originally broadcast July 17, 2017.
Prison education programs are proven to reduce recidivism. Although as many as 67% of incarcerated persons are rearrested within three years of release, studies consistently show an overwhelmingly positive correlation between education access and likelihood of successful reentry. According to one Emory University study:
Jul 27, 2020 · James Forman Jr. No democracy has ever incarcerated as many people as the United States. To get its incarceration rate down to the global average, the US would have to release 3 in 4 people in its prisons today. The effects on Black Americans have been especially severe — Black people make up 12% of the US population but 33% of its prison ...
Apr 18, 2017 · James Forman Jr. is one of the nation’s leading authorities on race, education, and the criminal justice system, and a tireless advocate for young people who others have written off. Forman attended Yale Law School, and after he graduated, worked as a law clerk for Judge William Norris of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Sandra ...
profiling, have affected communities of color disproportionately); James Forman, Jr., Community Policing and Youth as Assets, 95 J. C. RIM. L. & C. RIMINOLOGY. 1 (2004) [hereinafter Forman, Jr., Community Policing] (arguing that community policing efforts are undercut because the efforts leave youth out of the model); James Forman, Jr., x
