Podcasts & Radio

https://www.wypr.org/show/on-the-record/2020-06-17/can-protest-yield-police-reform
“The All Criminal Justice Edition” Emily Bazelon, James Forman Jr., & Vesla Weaver

Discussing inequality and the criminal justice system
Public Speaking & Keynote Addresses
at Columbia University
Annual Reviews Shot of Science
Let Them Eat Tweets
at Brown University

Media Appearances

Be Ready for a Lengthy, Vicious Struggle

The Interpreter: Police the Public, or Protect It? For a U.S. in Crisis, Hard Lessons From Other Countries

What Black People Really Think About the Police

Policing Shapes Residents’ Perceptions of Government in City Neighborhoods

Beyond Policing: Investing in Offices of Neighborhood Safety
Washington Post http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/08/how_prisons_make_bad_citizens.html Amy Lerman & Vesla Weaver

Column: How police and prisons blocked Black progress

Higher Education
Some Scholars Have Long Talked About Abolishing the Police. Now People Are Listening. What Comes Next?

“The Political Cost of a Heavy Police Presence”
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow &
Vesla Weaver

Who Is Most Likely to Dial 311? Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow &
Vesla Weaver
Op-Eds & Essays

The Kavanaugh hearings show who we afford a second chance and who we don’t: How race affects our willingness to forgive bad teen behavior.

We listened to people in highly policed U.S. communities

Having The Cops Called for #LivingWhileBlack

Did Blacks Really Endorse the 1994 Crime Bill? Elizabeth Hinton, Julilly Kohler-Hausmannand, & Vesla M. Weaver

The Missed Opportunity of Robert Woodson: One conservative black activist’s campaign for community crime control.
Vesla M. Weaver & Charles Decker

Protest Is Democracy at Work: We should be grateful for people who take to the streets.
Amy E. Lerman & Vesla M. Weaver

“The Only Government I Know” Vesla M. Weaver
May/June 2014 issu
“Is The United States
A Racial Democracy?”
Jason Stanley & Vesla M. Weaver
On Ferguson in Theory & Event: Black Citizenship and Summary Punishment: A Brief History to the Present