Date:
Thursday, February 16, 2017, 4:30pm to 5:45pm
Location:
Perkins Room (R-415), 4th Floor Rubenstein, HKS
The third session in CID's new Security and Development Seminar Series.
Inequality as both Cause and Effect of Crime, Violence in Latin America. This session will explore the causal relationships between inequality, crime, and violence, understanding the former as a both cause and effect of the latter. The relative importance of proximate vs. root causes of crime and violence will also be debated.
Speakers:
- Rodrigo R. Soares, Lemann Professor of Brazilian Public Policy and International and Public Affairs
- Filipe R. Campante, Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School
- João M P De Mello, Lemann Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
- Emily Owens, Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine
There will be a live stream of the event on CID's Facebook page.
Seating capacity is 40. RSVP to cid@hks.harvard.edu to confirm a seat.
This event is co-sponsored with:
- The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
- Harvard Kennedy School's LATINX Caucus
- Harvard Kennedy School's Brazilian Caucus