Professor of the Practice Emeritus in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Jack McDevitt is a Professor of the Practice Emeritus in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. He has a PhD in Law Policy and Society from Northeastern University. Jack was the Founding Director of the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University. Jack is the co author of two books Hate Crimes: The Rising Tide of Bigotry and Bloodshed, Hate Crime Revisited: American War on Those Who Are Different (both with Jack Levin) . He has also co-authored dozens of publications and reports on hate crime, racial profiling, police misconduct, gun violence and human trafficking. He has worked with hundreds of police departments on racial profiling. In 2014 he was appointed by the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives to Chair a Gun Violence Commission to make recommendations on ways to reduce gun violence in the Commonwealth. He has spoken on hate crime, racial profiling human trafficking and security both nationally and internationally and has testified as an expert witness before the Judiciary Committees of the US House of Representatives and as invited expert at the White House
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Emerging Research and Practice in Effective and Equitable Traffic Enforcement in the United States
Saturday, October 14, 2023
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PST
