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Mass incarceration has emerged in the public consciousness as an issue that must be addressed. To date, a popular intervention in criminal justice reform has been the institutionalization of algorithmic risk assessment tools that purport to separate high-risk from low-risk defendants and so, in theory, to reduce society’s reliance on incarceration. In this talk, Professor Eaglin will argue that the algorithmic approach is far less effective than it appears to be and that our understandings of race and law contribute to this distorted view. Further, the reliance on algorithms reduces society’s ability to imagine the more far-reaching interventions needed to address mass incarceration as a socio-historical phenomenon. Professor Eaglin will provide a theoretical lens to illuminate how law can expand our cultural imagination to generate more creative and effective solutions to the crisis of mass incarceration.