Barry Latzer

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Barry Latzer (born 1945) is an American criminologist and emeritus professor of criminal justice at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. [1] He previously taught at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He also prosecuted and defended accused criminals while teaching both there and at John Jay. [2] In 2016, his book The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America was published by Encounter Books. [3] [4] In 2021, The Roots of Violent Crime in America: From the Gilded Age through the Great Depression was published by LSU Press. [5] In 2022, his book The Myth of Overpunishment: A Defense of the American Justice System and a Proposal to Reduce Incarceration While Protecting the Public was published by Republic Book Publishers. [6] He has been called an "expert on core curricula" [7] and has lectured and written on capital punishment [8] [6] [9] and on state constitutional criminal procedure law. [10]

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Latzer worked as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, New York from 1985 to 1986, as a member of the Indigent Defendants Appeals Panel in Manhattan from 1987 to 1990, [11] and as a Senior Consultant for the American Council of Trustees and Alumni from 2003 to 2005. [12] [13] Latzer was a member of the board of trustees of the National Association of Scholars from 2004 to 2017 [14] and a co-founder and member of the executive committee of the CUNY Association of Scholars from 1997 to 2003.

Barry Latzer has also appeared on TV programs and podcasts being interviewed and discussing his books. [15] [16]

Education

Latzer received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1977, and his J.D. from Fordham University in 1985. [17]

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Other writing

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Professor Barry Latzer's Op-ed on the Shooting in Ferguson, MO Published in the New York Post". John Jay College of Criminal Justice. [O]p-ed ... titled 'Time to Start Deracializing Ferguson' ...; ... [h]is history of violent crime in the United States, 'Murder, Mayhem Mugging' is due out in 2015{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ↑ Frum, David (19 June 2016). "The Cultural Roots of Crime". The Atlantic.
  3. ↑ Willick, Jason (23 February 2016). "Backlash". The American Interest.
  4. ↑ Lopez, Graham (1 September 2016). "Confronting the myth that "black culture" is responsible for violent crime in America". Vox.
  5. ↑ Latzer, Barry (2021). The Roots of Violent Crime in America: From the Gilded Age through the Great Depression. LSU Press.
  6. 1 2 Latzer, Barry (2022). The Myth of Overpunishment: A Defense of the American Justice System and a Proposal to Reduce Incarceration While Protecting the Public. Republic Book Publishers.
  7. ↑ Mathews, Jay (6 September 2005). "Freshman Classes Getting Hooked on the Classics". The Washington Post.
  8. ↑ Latzer, Barry (2011). Death Penalty Cases: Leading U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Capital Punishment (3rd ed.). Newton, Mass.: Butterworth-Heinemann.
  9. ↑ Latzer, Barry (1991). State Constitutions and Criminal Justice. Greenwood Press.
  10. ↑ Latzer, Barry (1995). State Constitutional Criminal Law. Rochester, N.Y.: Clark, Boardman, Callaghan.
  11. ↑ "Barry Latzer, PhD Biography". ProCon.org. May 22, 2019. Archived from the original on 17 January 2021.
  12. ↑ Gershman, Jacob (May 13, 2004). "CUNY Campuses Measure Up to Ivy League". ACTA American Council of Trustees and Alumni.
  13. ↑ Mathews, Jay (May 18, 2004). "Learning the Value of Liberal Arts". ACTA American Council of Trustees and Alumni.
  14. ↑ "National Association of Scholars". sourcewatch.org. July 5, 2022.
  15. ↑ Latzer, Barry (September 3, 2022). "C-SPAN (Barry Latzer)". C-SPAN.org.
  16. ↑ Latzer, Barry. "Internet Archive". Archive.org. Retrieved September 3, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. ↑ Death Penalty Cases. Butterworth-Heinemann. 27 October 2010. ISBN   978-0-12-382024-2.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  18. ↑ Stringham, Edward (30 July 2016). "Is America Facing a Police Crisis? (book review)". The Wall Street Journal. ProQuest   1807673628.
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