Georgetown University Law Professor Kristin Henning on RAGE OF INNOCENCE

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Join Kristin Henning for a discussion of one of the most pressing issues or our time, the intersection of race, adolescence, and policing.

A brilliant analysis of the foundations of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, largely hidden from public view, endured by Black youth growing up under constant police surveillance and the persistent threat of physical and psychological abuseDrawing upon twenty-five years of experience rep­resenting Black youth in Washington, D.C.’s juve­nile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America’s irrational, manufactured fears of these young peo­ple and makes a powerfully compelling case that the crisis in racist American policing begins with its relationship to Black children.<a href="https://shop.riverstonebookstore.com/314-kristin-henning" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a><a href="https://shop.riverstonebookstore.com/314-kristin-henning" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Order The Rage of Innocence now</a>KRISTIN HENNING is a nationally recognized trainer and consultant on the intersection of race, adolescence, and policing. She is the Blume Professor of Law and director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at the Georgetown University Law Center. From 1998 to 2001 she was the lead attorney of the Juvenile Unit at the Public Defender Service for the District of Colum­bia. Awards she has received include the 2021 Leader­ship Prize from the Juvenile Law Center and the 2013 Robert E. Shepherd Jr. Award for Excellence in Juvenile Defense from the National Juvenile Defender Center.

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