Event

The proliferation of video cameras, stop-and-frisk policies, and other forms of surveillance have raised new questions about urban residents' safety and rights, especially in heavily policed inner city neighborhoods.

Moderator Philippe Bourgois, Penn Professor of Anthropology and Public Health, will lead the conversation with, Jerry Ratcliffe, Criminology, Temple University and former police surveillance professional; David Rudovsky, Senior Fellow Penn Law and Philadelphia's leading civil liberties attorney; and Alice Goffman, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan, who has studied the ways wanted men avoid capture.

Event made possible by the Provost’s Interdisciplinary Seminar Fund.

Part of our 2012 Public Conversation Series: Criminalizing the City