MEASURED JUSTICE - THE RAGE OF INNOCENCE

Discriminatory and aggressive policing has socialized a generation of Black teenagers to fear, resent, and resist the police. In the book The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth, Author and Georgetown University Law Professor Kristin Henning draws upon 25 years of experience representing Black youth in Washington, D.C.’s juvenile courts to confront America’s irrational, manufactured fears of these young people and makes a powerfully compelling case that the crisis in racist American policing begins with its relationship to Black children. In this episode of Measured Justice, our hosts Erik Luna and Valena Beety are joined by Associate Dean for Clinical Education, the Director of the Bluhm Legal Clinic, and the Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Robin Walker Sterling, to speak with Professor Henning about her book and how we can stop criminalizing Black children by using common sense solutions.