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Elliott Currie is a Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine, within the School of Social Ecology. His work focuses on the social and economic roots of American violence, racial disparities in violent death and injury, and the critique of the criminal punishment system.
- Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
- B.A., Roosevelt University in Chicago
Currie's research explores criminal justice policy in the U.S. and globally, patterns and causes of violent crime, race-related disparities in justice, youth delinquency, and drug abuse policy. His influential books, including A Peculiar Indifference: the Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America and Crime and Punishment in America, examine systemic issues and propose strategies for social equity.
- Recipient of the August Vollmer Award
- Recipient of the Mentor Award from the American Society of Criminology
- Co-author of Whitewashing Race: the Myth of a Colorblind Society, winner of the Hooks Institute Book Award and C. Wright Mills Award finalist
- Crime and Punishment in America was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1999
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