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Philip Kasinitz: "Immigration, Demographic Change, and Racial Justice"
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Philip Kasinitz, professor of sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, talks with Vera director Michael Jacobson about his research on immigrant...
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A Conversation with Sudhir Venkatesh
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Sudhir Venkatesh, William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, talks with Vera director Michael Jacobson about his 18 months advising the FBI on worki...
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Law Enforcement and Advocates Partnering to Better Serve Immigrant Crime Victims
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On October 5, 2011, Legal Momentum and the Vera Institute of Justice, through the National Immigrant Victims' Access to Justice Partnership, hosted a webinar on how law en...
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"Keeping Communities Safe?: The Case For and Against Secure Communities"
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The Vera Institute of Justice and New York Law School join for a panel discussion featuring four speakers with differing perspectives on the value and effects of Secure Com...
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Faye Taxman: "How Corrections Systems Can Deter Future Crime"
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Professor Faye Taxman of George Mason University talks with Vera director Michael Jacobson about how U.S. corrections systems can adopt practices to help reduce recidivism—...
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Paul Light: "Driving Social Change in Troubled Times"
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Paul Light, a leading expert on social entrepreneurship and influential blogger for the Washington Post speaks with Michael Jacobson, the Vera Institute of Justice's direc...
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Rob Smith: "Horatio Alger Lives in Brooklyn...but Check His Papers"
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In this podcast, part of the 2010-2011 Neil A. Weiner Research Speaker Series, Rob Smith discusses a 15-year ethnographic research project following more than 100 children ...
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50 Years of Innovation
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The Vera Institute of Justice has been partnering with leaders in government and civil society for 50 years. This report provides an overview of its work, along with highli...
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Jeffrey A. Fagan: "Still profiling after all these years: The trouble with consent decrees"
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Chitra Raghavan: "Intimate aggression: Understanding sexual coercion"
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In this podcast, psychologist Chitra Raghavan explains the concepts of "coercive sex" and "sexual assault" as they apply to people who know one another. Operating from the ...
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