Data Democratization

CPIAC at Northeastern University School of Law

Building Strategies to Disrupt and Dismantle the Cradle-to-Prison-Pipeline

Dockser 230 - Northeastern University School of Law

Presented by Northeastern University's Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline Project -- an interdisciplinary research initiative of Northeastern Law’s Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration (CPIAC), Northeastern College of Arts, Media + Design, and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern College of Social Sciences and Humanities -- this convening will examine the collateral consequences of systems involvement and generate data-driven solutions to disrupt carceral contributors. Discussions will focus on family policing, education justice, carceral conditions and systems of post-carceral control. This is an in-person event hosted at Northeastern University School of Law.

About Keynote Speaker Dr. Alan DettlaffAlan Dettlaff is a professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, where he also served as Dean through 2022. Alan began his career as a social worker in the family policing system, where he worked as a caseworker and administrator. Today his work focuses on ending the harm that results from this system. In 2020, he helped to create and launch the upEND movement, a collaborative effort dedicated to abolishing the family policing system and building alternatives that focus on healing and liberation.Alan received his bachelor’s degree in social work from TCU, and master’s and PhD in social work from the University of Texas at Arlington. He is author of the forthcoming book, Racist Intents: American Child Welfare in the Afterlife of Slavery and the Case for Abolition, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2023. He is also co-founding editor of Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to developing and disseminating an abolitionist praxis in social work.

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