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"Can Less Punishment Reduce Crime?"
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
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Since the 1960s, the U.S. prison population has increased fivefold. Prisons today hold one inmate for every one hundred adults — a record rate in American history, and one unmatched by any other country. But despite the high prison population, crime has stopped falling. Punishments can seem random in their severity and implementation, minorities and the poor still disproportionately become victims and inmates, and enforcement — particularly of probation and parole — is haphazard. How can crime be controlled? UCLA Public Policy professor Mark Kleiman, author of When Brute Force Fails, visits Zócalo to offer a new strategy for cutting crime, reducing the prison population, and still enacting swift, certain, and fair punishment.
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The Mexican Restaurant in Los Angeles
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11 , 2007, 7:00 PM
Mexican culture has always been central to Los Angeles. But only in the last dozen years or so has L.A. become a vital center of Mexican cuisine, bristling with restaurants presenting the regional dishes of practically every state in Mexico, as well as with creative restaurants showcasing the best of Mexican cuisine.
Z??calo has ... LISTEN TO FULL AUDIO
Dirty Business: Should the Porn Industry Be Saved?
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 , 2007, 7:00 PM
Los Angeles' dirty little economic secret is its $12-billion-a-year pornography industry, located primarily in the San Fernando Valley. Competition from amateur porn on the Internet, piracy and other pressures are cutting into profits. The question is: Should we care? How much should the industry's health risks weigh against its economic value? ... LISTEN TO FULL AUDIO
Can We Solve L.A.'s Gang Problem? A Conversation with Gang Czar Jeff Carr
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 , 2007, 7:00 PM
The City of Los Angeles spends over $150 million annually on youth development and anti-gang initiatives, but last year gang crime increased 15.7 percent over the previous year. Gang membership also ... WATCH FULL VIDEO
Girls Gone Mild: Have Roles for Women in Hollywood Gone Soft?
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 , 2007, 7:00 PM
Does Hollywood misunderstand women or is it the other way around? Responding to the recent onslaught of studio films featuring unemployed, socially maladjusted men and ... WATCH FULL VIDEO
