Presentations
“The Emergence of Neoliberal
Policing in Seoul, South Korea.” American Sociological
Association. San Francisco, August, 2009.
“Police Innovation in Seoul, South Korea.”
Law and Society Association. Denver, May 2009
“The New Urban Punitiveness:
The Rise of Anti-homeless Policies in San Francisco”
American Sociological Association. New York. Boston, August, 2008
“The NYPD’s Handling
of the Protests at the 2004 Republican National Convention.” American Sociological Association. New York. August, 2007.
“Social Movement Implications
of the NYPD’s tactics at the 2004 Republican National
Convention.” Collective
Behavior and Social Movements Conference, Hofstra University, August 2007
“Law or Order: The
Role of Police Discretion in the Policing of Protests at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City.” International Police Executive Symposium. Dubai, UAE, April, 2007.
"Impact Litigation Strategies
and Legal Monitoring of the NYPD at the 2004 Republican National Convention." Protest Week Symposium. November 7, 2006. CUNY Law School.
"Law or Order: The Role
of Police Discretion in the Policing of Protests at the 2004 Republican national Convention in New York City," Law and Society Association Annual Meeting. May 2006. Baltimore, Maryland.
"Arresting Dissent: The
NYPD's Policing of Protests from the World Economic Forum to the Present." April 8, 2006. National Lawyers Guild Northeast
Regional Conference. Columbia Law
School.
"Police Relations with Civil
Society at the 2004 Republican National Convention Demonstrations in New York City."
International Police Executive Symposium. September 2005. Prague, Czech Republic.
"From Escalated Force to Disruption Control: The Evolution of Protest
Policing." Law and Society Association Annual Meeting. Chicago,
Accepted for May 2004.
"The Political Origins and Social Consequences of the Rockefeller Drug
Laws." 5th Annual Applied and Urban Ethics Conference: [Il]legal Drugs: Profit, Health, and the Public Good. Rutgers University Law School, April 3, 2004.
"Arresting Protest: State Control and the February 15th Protests."
One Year Later: The Global Protests of February 15, 2003 and the Movement Against the War in Iraq. Columbia University, March 27-28, 2004.
"Challenges to Combining Problem-Based and Service-Learning Projects."
Third International Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, City
University, London,
June 2003.
"Bushwick
High School Violence Risk-Assessment Survey Project." Brooklyn College Faculty Day. May 22, 2002.
"Using Neighborhood Mapping to Understand Community Crime." Presented
at Nature, Ecology, and Society Symposium, February 2002, CUNY
Graduate Center.
"Homelessness and the Crisis of Urban Liberalism: The Development of
Broken Windows-Based Policing in New York City." Presented
at the Law and Society Annual Meeting. July, 2001, Budapest, Hungary.
"Criminalizing Homelessness: Changing Police Practices Towards the Homeless
in New York and San Francisco."
American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C.,
August 2000.
"The Application of the Broken Windows Theory to Homelessness in New York and San Francisco." International
Perspectives on Crime, Justice, and Public Order, Bologna, Italy, June 2000.
"The Urban Spatial Implications of ‘Quality of Life’ Policing
in New York City." Shaping Conflicts: Inhabiting Urbanized
Space/Redefining Quality of Life, April 1999.
"The Crisis of Urban Liberalism: From Temporal to Spatial Strategies
for Dealing with Homelessness in San Francisco 1987-1997," Presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting,
August 1998.
"Enforcing Civility: The Crisis of Urban Liberalism and the Development
of the ‘Quality of Life’ Approach to Urban Problems," Presented at the Law and Society Annual Meeting, June 1998.
"From Coney Island to Las Vegas in the
Urban Imaginary: Discursive Practices of Growth and Decline," University of Nevada at Las Vegas College of Architecture, October 1996.
"Enforcing Civility: The ‘Quality of Life’ Regime and Tudor City." Presented
at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 1996.
"Television and Deviancy: TV Talk Shows, Live Video Police Shows and
the End of Liberalism," Television and Popular Pleasure Conference, CUNY
Graduate Center, April 1996.
"Homelessness and the Civil Rights Agenda" CUNY Law School,
May 1994.
Guest Lectures
"Seeing the Global in the Local: Sociological Research in the 21st
Century" Alpha Kappa Delta Society annual lecture, St. John’s
University. May 15, 2002.
Participated in a formal debate on the death penalty for the Sociology
Department, Barnard College,
February, 2000.
"Narcotics Enforcement and the Street Crimes Unit of the NYPD" Drugs
and Society, Hunter College,
April 1999.
"From the Criminalization of Homelessness to the Street Crimes Unit
in New York City" Urban Sociology, Fordham
University, March, 1999.
"Changing Strategies of Narcotics Enforcement in the NYPD" Drugs and
Society, Hunter College,
December 1998.
"The Symbolic and Material Forces of Urban Development: Coney Island
and Las Vegas," Urban Sociology, Brooklyn
College, November 1997.
"The Politics of Urban Diversity," People, Power and Politics, Brooklyn College,
May 1997
"Dilemmas of Community Policing," Sociology of Social Problems, Bloomfield College,
May 1997.
"Homelessness and Community Backlash," Urban Sociology, Bloomfield College, May 1997
"Homelessness and Problem-Oriented Policing," Criminology, John Jay College
of Criminal Justice, May 1996.
