Professor Leon E. Pettiway will be in store with his latest book, Only for the Brave at HeartAbout this Event
About Only for the Brave at Heart: Essays Rethinking Race, Crime, and Justice
By taking a critical look at the writings of novelists, social commentators, and scholars in the fields of sociology, criminology, criminal justice, black studies, philosophy, and law, Professor Leon E. Pettiway presents a series of essays that provide a path that liberates us from these sufferings. In doing so, he provides a unique perspective that reframes the social realities of racial membership and institutional racism in the US and how they impact our perceptions of crime and justice.
The objective is to reconsider our thoughts about race and racism outside of the psychology of oppression and to consider our discourses on crime, criminality, and the administration of justice outside the negativities of pathology and dysfunction.
About Professor Pettiway
Professor Leon E. Pettiway, the Venerable Lobzang Dorje, is Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, Bloomington, and one of the few ordained African American Buddhist monks in the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He has spent his academic career researching geographical and criminological theories to explain patterns of urban crime. In 2016, he established Dagom Geden Kunkyob Ling Buddhist Monastery in Indianapolis, Indiana, and resides in the Herron-Morton neighborhood.
Pettiway has conducted research that integrates geographical and criminological theories to explain crime patterns in urban areas. In that regard, he has published articles on the impact of race and ghettoization in patterns of crime participation, the role of environmental and individual factors in arson, the relationship between an individual’s drug use and criminal participation in the formation of crime partnerships, and the criminal decision-making process of addicts and nonusers in light of various environmental cues.
Upon the conclusion of a major field research project funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Pettiway completed Honey, Honey, Miss Thang: Being Black, Gay, and on the Streets, a finalist for the 9th Annual Lambda Literary Award (Temple University Press), which examined the lives of drug-addicted, gay transgender women who commit a variety of crimes, and Workin’ It: Women Living Through Drugs and Crime (Temple University Press), which chronicled the drug use and crime participation of a group of inner-city women.
His current intellectual work centers on the construction of knowledge, the roots of social inequality, and how Eastern and Western philosophical traditions might be integrated into criminology and the administration of justice. He is committed to investigating the social, economic, and political issues that influence all sentient beings.
Links
Website: https://www.leonpettiway.com/
Event Venue
Tomorrow Bookstore, 882 Massachusetts Avenue, Indianapolis, United States
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