{"id":2365,"date":"2017-03-06T10:38:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T00:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2017-03-06T10:38:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T00:38:16","slug":"upcoming-symposium-race-and-incarceration-perspectives-from-australia-and-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2017\/03\/06\/upcoming-symposium-race-and-incarceration-perspectives-from-australia-and-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Symposium &#8211; &#8220;Race and Incarceration: Perspectives from Australia and the United States&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifecoursecentre.org.au\/wp-content\/themes\/wordpress-bootstrap-child\/images\/logo.png\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifecoursecentre.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Veave_in_jail.jpg\" alt=\"Veave_in_jail\" width=\"196\" height=\"197\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifecoursecentre.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Life Course Centre<\/a> at the University of Queensland is hosting an upcoming symposium titled <em>&#8220;Race and Incarceration: Perspectives from Australia and the United States&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Date: Tuesday, 14 March 2017<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Time: 10.15am \u2013 12.00 noon (followed by a light lunch)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Venue: Room 201, Level 2, Cycad Building (1018) Location University of Queensland Long Pocket Precinct, 80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly<br \/>\n(From UQ St Lucia take the 10.00am shuttle bus at Chancellors Place)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">RSVP: lcc@uq.edu.au<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Australia and the United States, countries with significantly diverse racial histories, find themselves afflicted with similarly high levels of racial disparity within their justice systems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In an effort to share knowledge and insights across the two countries, the Life Course Centre has brought together a panel of local and international experts to examine the racial disparity affecting the justice systems and discuss a way forward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The presenters will discuss findings around transitions from prison to community, criminal justice reform, and domestic violence in Australian Indigenous communities. There will also be a screening of the short film <em>Voices from Boston and the Territory<\/em>, including a Q&amp;A with team members involved in making the film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">For more information and to visit the LCC website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifecoursecentre.org.au\/events-archive\/lcc-symposium-race-and-incarceration-perspectives-from-australia-and-the-united-states\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2017\/03\/2017-03-LCC-Race-and-Incarceration-Symposium_FINAL-002.pdf\">2017-03 LCC Race and Incarceration Symposium_FINAL (002)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Life Course Centre at the University of Queensland is hosting an upcoming symposium titled &#8220;Race and Incarceration: Perspectives from Australia and the United States&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9697,9719],"tags":[241,15296,15295,11326,15297],"class_list":{"0":"post-2365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-conferences","8":"category-justice-policy-issues","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-incarceration","11":"tag-lifecoursecentre","12":"tag-symposium","13":"tag-unitedstates"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions\/2368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}