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NEU Institute on Race and Justice

The Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University engages in research and scholarship that examines the influence of race on important questions of social justice. Directed by Jack McDevitt, Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Research, the Institute's primary goal is to conduct nationally recognized research on the structural causes of racial injustice specifically, within the institutions of criminal justice and education. The Institute is founded on a sociological research model designed to incorporate traditional interdisciplinary-based research methodologies with a community-based problem solving approach. Our mission is to provide rigorous and objective information and resources that can be used by community members to make policy changes that advance the cause of social justice.

http://www.northeastern.edu/irj/

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    Two Towns of Jasper

    Wed, Jan 15, 2003
    A panel discusses *Two Towns of Jasper*, a documentary film that explores race relations in the town where James Byrd, Jr., an African American resident, was brutally dragged to death in 1998. *Two Towns of Jasper* is a collaborative effort between a black and a white filmmaker, using segregated crews, to document the town of Jasper during the trials of the three men charged with the murder. "The documentary is not so much about the murder of James Byrd Jr., as is it about two perspectives on the murder," according to co-producer Dow. "Listening to the black and white communities of Jasper talk about the crime turned out to be a pretty startling revelation about the depth of the division that exists between black and white Americans."
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  • Disproportionate Minority Confinement

    Mon, Jun 2, 2003
    A panel of members of law enforcement, advocacy, politics, youth activism, and community and faith-based organizations discusses the results of the Disproportionate Minority Confinement in Massachusetts report. The ACLU headquarters in New York recently released a report on Disproportionate Minority Confinement in Massachusetts. The report specifically examines how black and latino youth are over-represented in every phase of the juvenile or criminal justice system, and offers recommendations to the Governor on how the state should address the issue. In conjunction with the report's release, the Northeastern University Institute on Race and Justice organized this community event with ACLU, Roxbury Defender's Office and Youth Advocacy Project to provide a forum for community response and dialogue around DMC as a state problem.
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  • Restorative Justice: Healing the Harm

    Mon, Nov 22, 2004
    Elmar Weitekamp, professor of law from the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, talks about his extensive work in mediation, and in community and problem-oriented policing using a restorative justice approach. Restorative justice is a value-based approach to responding to wrongdoing and conflict, with a balanced focus on the offender, victim, and community. Restorative justice emphasizes transforming wrongdoing by healing the harm, particularly to relationships, that is created by harmful behavior. This discussion is hosted by The College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University.
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