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James Forman Jr.

ジェームズ・フォーマン・ジュニア

Jēmuzu Fōman Junia

別名: James Robert Lumumba Forman

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1967-06-22 (New York City)
国籍
United States
言語
English
宗教
Unknown
居住地歴
New York City → Atlanta → Washington, D.C.

経歴

職業
legal scholar, law professor, public defender, constitutional law scholar, educator
活動期間
1992年〜
所属
Yale Law School, Georgetown University, See Forever Foundation
所属団体
American Philosophical Society
ノミネート
National Book Award longlist

学歴

Brown University
学位: BA
卒業年: 1988
国: United States
Yale Law School
Law
学位: JD
卒業年: 1992
国: United States

受賞歴

Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
2018
対象作品: Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
部門: General Nonfiction
主催: Columbia University
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

2017年 Nonfiction

Examines tough-on-crime policies supported in many black communities in the 1970s but now contributing to mass incarceration. Argues for a holistic view of the criminal justice system and investments in jobs, housing, schools, and treatment.

mass incarcerationcrime policy in Black Americacriminal justice reform

全著作

  • Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

評価・遺産

Critic of mass incarceration in criminal justice, Pulitzer Prize winner. Co-founder of Maya Angelou School for troubled youth. Son of civil rights activist James Forman Sr., grandson of Jessica Mitford.

関連学会

  • American Philosophical Society

豆知識

  • Son of civil rights leader James Forman Sr.
  • Grandson of writer Jessica Mitford.
  • Clerked for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
  • Co-founder of Maya Angelou Public Charter School.