Racial Injustice Globally Speaker Series: Dr. Ben Jones
Date & Time: October 29, 2020 | 09:00 PM – July 16, 2024 | 01:00 PM
Location: Online (Zoom)
The SIA Racial Injustice Globally Speaker Series will continue on Thursday, October 29 from 12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. via Zoom. Dr. Ben Jones will be presenting on, "The Ethics of Addressing Racial Disparities in Police Deadly Force."
Jones joined the Rock Ethics Institute at The Pennsylvania State University as its Assistant Director in 2017. He does work in political philosophy and applied ethics, with a focus on criminal justice, political ethics, ideal theory, and religion’s role in politics. His research appears in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, the Journal of Applied Philosophy, the European Journal of Political Theory, the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, and other venues.
Current projects include The Ethics of Policing: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, a volume he is co-editing with Eduardo Mendieta, and Apocalypse without God: Apocalyptic Thought, Ideal Politics, and the Limits of Utopian Hope, which examines the relationship between utopian theorizing and apocalyptic thought in political philosophy.
Before coming to Penn State, Ben taught at the University of Kansas and University of Missouri-Kansas City. He also has extensive experience working on criminal justice policy. From 2009 to 2012, he served as the Executive Director of the Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty and directed the statewide organizing, lobbying, and media campaign that successfully repealed Connecticut’s death penalty. Following this campaign, he worked as a campaign strategist for Equal Justice USA.
Ben Jones holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University.
Dr. Jones’ talk is Co-Sponsored with the Criminal Justice Research Center and Rock Ethics Institute.
Please register to attend. Zoom information will be sent after registration.