Bringing Down the Big House: Reframing Abolition as Policy
February 26, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Join UIC's Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, UIC's Sociology Department, and the Criminology, Law & Justice Department for a conversation with Dr. John Eason.
Dr. Eason is a renegade scholar, teacher, mentor, and recovering community/political organizer who worked on the Southside of Chicago and served as a Director of Field Operations for then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama. Currently, he is the Watson Family University Associate Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs at Brown University and a Senior Research Fellow in the Justice Policy Center and the Office of Race and Equity Research at the Urban Institute where he leads the project on Reducing Prisons in Rural Communities of Color. He is also the Founder and Director of the emerging Justice Policy Lab @ Brown University providing research opportunities and mentoring to junior scholars.
ABOUT THE SERIES
Events in the Legacies of Racism Series deepen our understanding of the challenges and possibilities of policy efforts to address longstanding racial inequality. Legacies of Racism events build on the themes from our State of Racial Justice in Chicago reports and explore the recent and historic origins of racial and ethnic inequities and ask questions about what it means to try to repair systematic harm done to people and communities.
Date posted
Jan 31, 2025
Date updated
Feb 10, 2025