“Thinking Critically About Police Reform” led by Jason Williams of Montclair State University and Howard Ryan, a WVU doctoral student in sociology, will be held from 10:30 a.m. to noon Nov. 3 in the Rhododendron Room of the Mountainlair.
The focus of the discussion is on police reform through a critical criminology lens, a theoretical framework through which crime is seen as the result of class conflict and oppression.
This event is free and open to all faculty members, students and the general public. Light refreshments will be served.
The Black Lives Matter movement has fostered national dialogue on systemic racism in policing.
Williams is the co-editor of “Black Males and the Criminal Justice System” and following the deaths of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, he led ethnographic research in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland.
Ryan has worked as a labor organizer for many years and is the author of “Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing against the Corporate Juggernaut” and co-editor of the anthology “On Class, Race and Educational Reform: Contested Perspectives.”
This event is sponsored by Mary L. Thomas Endowment, Research Center on Violence and the WVU Department of Sociology and Anthropology.