Frank Baumgartner will be visiting the department and, in that connection give a CEPDISC seminar entitled “Working as Intended? How the Criminal Code Was Designed with Race in Mind”

Frank Baumgartner is a Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a leading researcher on the death penalty and the criminal legal system. He has published numerous studies on how race, gender and geography affect death sentences in individual states. You can read more here: https://politicalscience.unc.edu/staff/frank-baumgartner/

To help us better organize the event, if you are not a member of CEPDISC, please let us know by email to maj.carlsen@ps.au.dk if you plan to attend.

Everyone interested is warmly invited.