“Social Order in the Court: Investigating Racial Inequality across Multiple Stages of the Guilty Plea Process”
Brian D. Johnson, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland, will be the featured speaker for the Department of Criminology, Law and Society's Colloquium series.
Johnson is the recipient of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar and the ASC Division on Corrections and Sentencing Distinguished New Scholar Awards. He is a recent co-Editor of Criminology and currently serves as the gubernatorial-appointed Criminal Justice Policy Expert on the Maryland State Commission on Criminal Sentencing. His research addresses issues related to social inequality in the criminal legal system, with a particular focus on racial disparities in prosecution and punishment. His published research appears in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, Criminology, Journal of Quantitative Criminology and Justice Quarterly.