A Conversation with Sudhir Venkatesh

Topic(s)

Immigration

Policing

01/09/2012 Vera Institute of Justice

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About This Podcast

Sudhir Venkatesh, William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, talks with Vera director Michael Jacobson about his 18 months advising the FBI on working with local law enforcement agencies to deal with gang-related crime and his current research on informal justice systems in urban communities. This podcast is part of the 2011-2012 Neil A. Weiner Research Speaker Series.

Professor Venkatesh is author most recently of Gang Leader for a Day:
A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets. He is completing an ethnographic study of policing.

Length: 8:15 minutes

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