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Violence & the City
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The Murphy Institute 25 West 43rd Street #18th Floor New York, NY 10036
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Description
The Murphy Institute, CUNY and
The Center for Urban Research and Education,
Rutgers University-Camden
invite you to a conference
Violence & the City
This day-long, interdisciplinary conference will consider the nature and effects of various types of urban violence, and is organized around two themes: violence and urban society; and, crime, politics, and policy. Featured speakers will address these concerns in theoretically, methodologically, or empirically innovative ways.
Speakers and Discussants include:
Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center.
Marie Gottschalk, Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Ruth Gilmore,Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and American Studies,
and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center
Mimi Abramovitz, Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor of Social Policy, Silberman School of
Social Work, Hunter College
Lawrence Mead, Professor of Politics, New York University
Paul Jargowsky,Professor of Public Policy and Director of Center for Urban Research and
Urban Education, Rutgers University-Camden
John Mollenkopf, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for
Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Center