Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 7 p.m.
Marc
Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project , Incarceration
Nation
Marc Mauer has written extensively and testified before Congress and
other legislative bodies. His critically acclaimed book, Race to
Incarcerate,
was named a semifinalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and he
is the co-editor of Invisible Punishment, a collection of essays that
examine the social costs of incarceration. He is also the recipient of
the Donald Cressey Award for contributions to criminal justice research
and the Alfred Lindesmith Award for drug policy scholarship. Mauer frequently
lectures before a broad range of national and international audiences
and he appears regularly on television and radio networks.
In “Incarceration Nation,” Mauer will examine the causes
and consequences of the historic rise in the use of imprisonment in the
U.S. over the past three decades. He will also explore the political,
social, and racial dynamics behind these policy changes, the impact of
the war on drugs in creating a world-record prison population, and directions
for advocacy to reverse these trends and develop a more effective public
safety strategy.
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