DAUK Film Night: Racially Charged: America’s Misdemeanor Problem
An essential insight into the operation and impact of our criminal justice system
In collaboration with the DAUK Black Caucus
The Filmmakers
Robert Greenwald
Film Reviews
Issues at stake
Criminal Justice Reform, Racism
More About The Film
The Film Night
About Misdemeanors
About the film
About our speaker
Alexandra Natapoff is an award-winning legal scholar and criminal justice expert. She writes about criminal courts, public defense, plea bargaining, wrongful convictions, and race and inequality in the criminal system. Her book Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal (Basic Books) inspired this film and reveals the powerful influence that misdemeanors exert over the U.S. criminal system. Her book Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice (NYU Press), won the ABA Silver Gavel Award Honorable Mention for Books. Her original work on criminal informants has made her an international expert.
Professor Natapoff is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, a member of the American Law Institute, and a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Law School. She has testified before Congress and numerous state legislative bodies; she has helped draft state and
federal legislation; her work appears frequently in judicial opinions as well as the national media. Prior to joining the academy, she served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in Baltimore, Maryland.
Film Reviews
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