A summit addressing the causes, meanings, and effects of racial disproportion in the American criminal justice system with a focus on massive incarceration and racial disproportion in American prisons and jails.

Panelists include: Stanford Law Professor Robert Weisberg, director of the Criminal Justice Center; Stanford Professor of Sociology Lawrence Bobo; Stanford Associate Professor of Psychology Jennifer Eberhardt; and Theodore M. Shaw, director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

Sponsored by: the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, The Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, The Stanford Criminal Justice Center, and the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality