LAW & ORDER SPEAKER SERIES OPENS at DELAWARE TECH

First lecture topic is The New Discrimination

Delaware Tech’s annual Law & Order Speaker Series will launch October 14 at the Wilmington Campus, 333 N. Shipley Street in Wilmington. The topic of the series lecture is “The New Discrimination: How Unconscious Bias and Mass Incarceration are Crippling Delaware’s Impoverished Communities.” The lecture will be held from 3-5 pm in the campus conference room.

Presenters for the lecture include University of Delaware sociology and criminal justice professor Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, who will be the keynote speaker. UD political science professor David C. Wilson, Ph.D., County Councilman Jea Street, and civil rights attorney Leroy A. Tice, Esq. will also be among the presenters. The event will be moderated by Leland Ware, the Louis L. Redding Chair and Professor of Law and Public Policy at UD. The presenters will explain how unconscious bias in the criminal justice system has contributed to the criminalization of student misconduct in schools and the over incarceration of non-violent offenders. They will also discuss how the mass incarceration of non-violent offenders weakens minority and low income communities.

The Law & Order Speaker Series includes lectures and workshops related to social justice and public policy. It is co-sponsored by the Multicultural Lawyers and Judges Section of the Delaware State Bar Association, Delaware Barristers, Leland Ware, Sigma Pi Phi, The Vanguard Society, and Delaware Tech Student Services Division. This free event is open to the public and registration is required. Please reply to Jeanette Pulliam at jpulliam@dtcc.edu or call 302-571-5361.