CURE affiliated scholar Lori Minnite joins Scholars Strategy Network!

Lori Minnite recently joined the Scholars Strategy Network, a research organization to “Improve Policy and Enhance Democracy”. Congratulations, Lori!

Here the related post from the SSN website:

Lorraine C. Minnite

Associate Professor of Public Policy, Rutgers University-Camden

Department of Public Policy and Administration

401 Cooper Street, Room 102

Camden, New Jersey 08102

lcm130@camden.rutgers.edu

(856) 225-2526

EXPERTISE & CIVIC INVOLVEMENTS

Minnite is a policy-focused political scientist with expertise in American and urban politics and policy. She specializes in the study of inequality and how it is dealt with by the American political system, teaching courses on political participation, poverty, community development, urban politics, and policy analysis. Her earlier work on immigrant communities in New York City engaged a community collaborative research process that produced new insights into questions about immigrant political incorporation. She is a Senior Fellow at the policy think tank and advocacy organization, Demos, and serves on the research board of the Urban Justice Center’s Participatory Budgeting in New York City project. With her expertise on voter fraud, she has testified before Congress, advised government agencies such as the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission and the U.S. Government Accountability Office, been invited to speak to state elections officials about her research, and participated as an expert witness in high profile legal challenges to new voter identification rules adopted in a number of states.

CURE affiliated scholar Lori Minnite weighs in on recent recent Pennsylvania trial court ruling striking down the state’s voter ID law

The recent Pennsylvania trial court ruling striking down the state’s voter ID law is only the most recent instance where a court relied heavily on evidence produced by social scientists and statisticians.

Dr. Lorraine Minnite is an associate professor at Rutgers-Camden and a well-known expert on vote fraud. Minnite was brought in by the plaintiffs to examine the content of the legislative debates regarding the need for voter ID and the prevalence (or not) of voter fraud in Pennsylvania. Her report starts at page 20 here and is an entertaining read for anyone interested in legislative intent. The court determined, for instance, that there appeared to be a “legislative disconnect from reality” (pg. 41 of the decision), and Minnite shows that, whatever the merits of voter ID, the speculations of legislators often outstripped reality.

To read more about this case, see this recent NYT article.

Next CURE seminar: Friday, January 31, 2014

“The Social Ecology of African American Homicide: Philadelphia since 1940”

Eric Schneider, Ph.D.
Professor of History
University of Pennsylvania

Friday, January 31, 2014– 12:15pm
Campus Center–Executive Private Dining Room
Lunch will be provided

Eric Schneider is the Associate Director for Academic Affairs and an Adjunct Professor of History in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of In the Web of Class: Delinquents and Reformers in Boston, 1810s-1930s (1992), Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York (1999), and Smack: Heroin and the American City (2008), which won the Kenneth B. Jackson Prize for the best book in North American urban history. Schneider is currently working on a history of homicide in Philadelphia from the 1940s to the 1990s, American Necropolis: Homicide in the Modern City.

What explains the concentration of homicide among African Americans? In Philadelphia over the past twenty-five years, 70 percent of nearly 9,500 homicide victims were African American, and over half were African American males between the ages of 18 and 40. Most commentators see this as a uniquely contemporary problem, but it is not. This paper explores the historical development of the contemporary homicide crisis, reviews existing explanations for homicide, and then uses excerpts from a sample of homicide trial transcripts to argue for the emergence and perpetuation of “homicidal environments.”

Please visit: https://www.berfrois.com/2014/01/eric-schneider-the-streets-of-killadelphia/ to read more about Dr. Schneider’s work.

CURE affiliated scholar Stephen Danley to speak at Rutgers-Camden on January 28, 2014

An event hosted by PASA (the Public Administration Student Association) features CURE affiliated scholar Dr. Stephen Danley.

The title of his talk is: Access, Rigor and Field Work: Conversations Qualitative Researchers Have Over Drinks

Tuesday January 28th from 4:30-5:30p.m.
South ABC Conference Room, Campus
Center

Dinner will be served

For the event flyer, please visit: Dine Discover Jan 2014 Flyer

Paul Jargowsky’s Concentration of Poverty Report draws national attention – Economic Policy Institute Blog

African American Poverty: Concentrated and Multi-Generational

Posted January 7, 2014 at 9:45 am by RICHARD ROTHSTEIN

In the current issue of The American Prospect, I review Patrick Sharkey’s Stuck in Place, a 2013 book that helps explain the persistent failure of educational policy to spur the upward mobility of low-income African American youth.

– See more at: http://www.epi.org/blog/african-american-poverty-concentrated-multi/#sthash.ULayRMTt.dpuf