Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, Temple University

Doing racism while doing justice: Racism and Discretion in Chicago's Felony Court System
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, Temple University

Description

Semester: 
Winter 2016
Lecture Time: 
Friday, April 15, 2016 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm
Lecture Location: 

Room R1240, Ross School of Business

Recording & Additional Notes

Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve is an Assistant Professor at Temple University in the Department of Criminal Justice with courtesy appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Beasley School of Law. She is the recipient of the 2014-2015 Ford Foundation Fellowship Postdoctoral Award, the 2015-2016 New Scholar Award (co-winner) awarded by American Society of Criminology’s Division On People of Color and Crime. She is also an affiliated scholar with the American Bar Foundation. Her book, "Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court" (Stanford Press 2016) and her legal commentary have been featured on NBC News, MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show and CNN. Van Cleve received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University where she was a legal studies fellow. Broadly, her research examines the cultural impact of mass incarceration on criminal justice organizations and apparatuses. She explores the contradictory ways that racial stigma is reproduced by these institutions in a purportedly, “colorblind” era.