Countering the Legacy of Redlining: Latino Immigrant Revitalization and Neighborhood Violence 10.18.24
The Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean Program presents Countering the Legacy of Redlining: Latino Immigrant Revitalization and Neighborhood Violence on Friday, October 18th, 11AM – 1PM. Please join us for a conversation between Christopher Lyons and Maria Velez on the critical issues of redlining, immigration and crime in Latinx communities. Event details and registration link are below.
Speaker Highlights
Maria B. Vélez, Associate Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland. María B. Vélez’ general interests are to understand how stratification along racial-ethnic, political, and economic lines shapes and is shaped by the uneven patterning of crime and justice outcomes. Key themes include investigating: the influence of political conditions on crime patterns across neighborhoods; the dynamic nature of crime; and the consequences of mass incarceration and other forms of criminal justice contact for minority political behavior and the wellbeing of democracy in the United States.
Christopher Lyons, Interim Director of Liberal Arts and Integrative Studies, University of New Mexico, and Professor with UNM’s Department of Sociology & Criminology. Christopher’s teaching interests focus on crime, justice, and urban communities. His research strives to understand how social, economic, and political dimensions of structural inequality shape disparities in community violence, and the explicit or subtle ways that axes of difference influence the mobilization of socio-legal control. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and published in outlets such as the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Criminology, Social Problems, and Social Forces.