Video Resources

Video 1: How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time?

Description: Baratunde Thurston explores the phenomenon of white Americans calling the police on black Americans who have committed the crimes of ... eating, walking or generally "living while black."

Video 2: We Need to Talk About an Injustice

Description: In an engaging and personal talk, human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country's black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives.

Video 3: A community Safety Net to Prevent Rampage Shootings

Description: This video is about policies developed to provide social safety from crime.

Audio Resources

Audio 1: Illegal Immigration Does Not Increase Violent Crime, Four Studies Show

Description: Michael Light, a criminologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, looked at whether the soaring increase in illegal immigration over the last three decades caused a commensurate jump in violent crimes: murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.

Audio 2: Author Podcast: Neighborhoods

Description: The author provides a brief overview of the chapter.

Web Resource

Web 1: Social Disorganization

Description: A description of social disorganization theory with examples from the National Crime Justice Reference Service.