Sixth Annual Harry Frank Guggenheim
Symposium on Crime in America

Law & Disorder: Facing the Legal and Economic Challenges to
American Criminal Justice

This year's Harry Frank Guggenheim symposium at John Jay College focuses on America's courts and their increasingly critical role in advancing or standing in the way of criminal justice change. At both the federal and state levels, they are at the center of new, transformative approaches to public safety and justice delivery systems. At the same time, they are often the source of huge inefficiencies, backlogs and even corruption which (ironically) prevent the successful realization of such change. Symposium panels and speakers will also focus on other issues likely to dominate the conversation and policy debates (and coverage) of criminal justice in 2011 led by the continuing budget crisis that continues to affect local and state spending on public safety and corrections, and the impact of the Midterm Elections.

PANELS

Panel 1: The Courts, Public Safety and Civil Liberties: Challenges in 2011 (A Conversation About Justice)

Panel 2: The Courts on Trial: Is the System Failing Us?

Panel 3: Crime and Criminal Justice Trends 2010-2011: Can We Do More With Less?*

Panel 4: America's Prisons: A Progress Report from the States*

Panel 5: Gun Violence, The Media, and the Role of Courts and Law Enforcement*

Panel 6: Techno-Crime Fighting: Law Enforcement, Civil Liberties, Public Safety and the Web*

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