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Tony Platt: The State of Injustice in the United States

Tony Platt, a criminanologist and sociologist, is the author of twelve books and 150 essays and articles dealing with issues of criminal justice, race, inequality, and social justice in American History. He taught at the University of Chicago, University of California (Berkeley), and California state universities. He is currently a Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California Berkeley. 

 

Beth Caldwell "DEPORTED AMERICANS"

Profesor Beth Caldwell is a former public defender and is now a a professor at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. Her research focuses on the areas of criminal justice and immigration law. Caldwell has been recognized with numerous fellowships and awards, including a Rotary Ambaassador Scholarship and a Fullbright Garcia Robles Fellowship -- both of which funded long term field work in Mexico. She is also a recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship for the study of urban poverty and a Soros Justice Media Fellowship to write about the consequences of crime based deportation.