Nikki Jones is Professor and H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Department Chair of African American Studies department at UC-Berkeley. She is the author of Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence (2010) and The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption (June 2018), which received the Michael J. Hindelang Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology in 2020. Professor Jones has shared her expertise with numerous print, radio, and television news media outlets, including NPR, BBC World Newshour, Minnesota Public Radio, Time Magazine, The Guardian, and CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” among others. Currently, Jones’ research activities focus on providing research-based recommendations to organizers who are on the frontlines of building community-led visions of safety, well-being, and justice in the Bay Area. Professor Jones has received funding for this work from The William T. Grant Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the Abolition Democracy Initiative in the Department of African American Studies at UC-Berkeley.
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“Brutal & Routine: Why Police Reform Always Fails and Why We Need Abolition”
Nikki Jones (UC Berkeley) will share some of her work from her current book project, BRUTAL AND ROUTINE, to be published by W.W. Norton Press. The book draws on 20 years of research to crystallize a new and necessary understanding of police violence, with a reasoned argument for the limits of reform and the potential for abolition. The presentation will be followed by an extended commentary by Christy Kulz (TU Berlin), drawing on her own research on the racialization and criminalization of young people in British schools.
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