Prof. Yanilda María González (Harvard Kennedy School of Government) talks about her research on race, policing and democratization in Latin America.
Prof. González's newbook, Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America (Cambridge University Press), studies the persistence of police forces as authoritarian enclaves in otherwise democratic states (Brazil, Argentina, Colombia), demonstrating how ordinary democratic politics in unequal societies can both reproduce authoritarian policing and bring about rare moments of expansive reforms.
This event is part of Critical Perspectives on Justice and Inequality, a new series on criminological and sociolegal dimensions of anti-Black racism, Indigenous peoples, and settler colonialism.
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On Thursday, January 21st, 2021 (2:00–3:30pm), Dr. Ayodele Akenroye (Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies) will explore how new digital technologies, particularly videoconferencing technology, are radically changing the social landscape in which the judge as authoritative and the court as legitimate are stripped bare and subject to further interrogation.