Скачать или смотреть A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America

In this month's Racial Healing and Reconciliation conversation, Dr. Elliot Currie talks about America's "Peculiar Indifference" to enduring racial disparities in violent death and injury in America as well as strategies to reduce them.

Dr. Currie is a Criminology, Law, and Society Professor at the University of California, Irvine, USA, and an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. His work focuses on the social and economic roots of American violence and the problems of the criminal punishment system in the United States. He is the author of many works on crime, delinquency, drug abuse, and social policy, including Confronting Crime: An American Challenge, Dope, and Trouble: Portraits of Delinquent Youth, Reckoning: Drugs, the Cities, and the American Future, The Road to Whatever: Middle-Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence, and The Roots of Danger: Violent Crime in Global Perspective. His book Crime and Punishment in America, revised and expanded in 2013, was a FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE in General Nonfiction in 1999.