Event

Penn Institute for Urban Research presents a Public Interest Series event:

Dying in the City of Brotherly Love: Homicide in Postwar Philadelphia

Eric Schneider, Penn IUR Faculty Fellow and Adjunct Professor of History at Penn, will discuss his most recent research, which focuses on homicide in the city of Philadelphia during the postwar era into the present. His latest book, Smack: Heroin and the American City, won the 2009 Kenneth Jackson Best Book Award. Professor Schneider will discuss reasons for the concentration of homicide in urban African American communities. John MacDonald, Jerry Lee Assistant Professor of Criminology, will also be present to discuss the implications of Professor Schneider’s research and the effects of race and ethnicity on criminal justice and social policy responses to homicide.

Reception to follow. Register by March 26 by emailing penniur@pobox.upenn.edu. This event is free and open to the public.

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