Conference: Race & Criminal Justice in the West

Conference: Race & Criminal Justice in the West

Friday, Sept. 23 & Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011
Gonzaga University School of Law

This conference seeks to examine the topic of race and the criminal justice system in the Western states.

Racial minorities continue to be overrepresented in our criminal justice system; yet too often concerns about the high arrest and incarceration rates are dismissed as simply the result of a high rate of criminality.

This conference will explore the role of bias, both conscious and unconscious, to ask whether race still matters in out criminal justice system.

Please click here for the full schedule of events.

Panels

• Plenary Panel: Race, Justice, and the Judicial Branch
• Prosecution, Defense, and Sentencing in Indian Country
• Sites of Racial Disparity in the Juvenile Justice System
• Illuminating the Past and Informing the Present
• Crimmigration: The Impact of Immigration Enforcement on Washington's Criminal Justice System and Its Impact on Minority Communities
• Educating and Engaging Latino Communities in Self-Advocacy against Disproportionality
• Race and Terrorism in a Post-9/11 World
• Law Enforcement: From Police to Prosecutors
• Race in Punishment: Sentencing and Incarceration
• Political and Enforcement Questions: Policies, Problems and Possibilities
• Post-Incarceration: The Badge of Being a Felon
• Remedying Racial Discrimination: The Task Force on Race and the Criminal Justice System
• The Minority Bar Associations: Roles and Solutions

Keynote Speaker

The Honorable Barbara Madsen, Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, will deliver the keynote address at dinner, Saturday, Sept. 24.

CLE credits

The conference has been approved for 7.5 hours of CLE credit in Washington.
Idaho CLE credits pending.

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