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Event: October 2016 First Friday Lecture
Starts: Friday 10/7/2016 11:30 AM
Ends: Friday 10/7/2016 01:00 PM
Location: Studio M of the Moore Communications Center: The home of KAMU TV-FM. Located on Houston Street at John David Crow Street on the campus of Texas A&M University
Presenters: Dr. John Eason, assistant professor, Department of Sociology
Hosted By: African American Professional Organization
Contact Information: acwatson@tamu.edu
Description: Dr. John Eason will discussion a new approach to the study of punishment explaining the causes and consequences of the prison boom from the perspective of the rural, southern towns most directly affected by prison building. Prison placement is often oversimplified as a dubious choice for rural community leaders: a way to secure jobs that may stigmatize their communities. Rural towns want to build prison and not simply for economic wellbeing, but also to protect and improve their reputations. Dr. John Major Eason is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University with interests in crime, race, rural sociology, the sociology of punishment, and urban sociology. Before receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, he worked as a church-based community organizer focusing on housing and criminal justice issues and served as a political organizer most notably for then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama. Dr. Eason is completing a book with the Uni




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Open to: Faculty Staff Grad Students TAMU Guest
Registration Starts: Friday 9/23/2016 12:00 AM
Registration Ends: Thursday 10/6/2016 12:00 AM
Seats Available: 4 of 50
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