Its great to have you here ralph, on cspan. Guest thank you. Host im very hardded to be able to interview on this new book return to sender. Is that an homage to elvis presley. Host thats the point these days. Guest its a message that 103 lettered sent to president bush and president obama from 2001 to 2015, were with very few exceptions not acknowledged and not answered. And so i thought id embarrass myself by putting them all in a book and raise a bigger issue which is the most Democratic Media is when a person writes a letter to an elected official, like a mayor governor, senator president , cant be censor order not distorted and not to respect it and to try to answer it or even to acknowledge it so that people know its not going to some dark hole, is major issue, i think and most young people dont realmize that a written letter to pool particular has far more impact than an email. They get lots of letters. I income a half million a week. Guest yes. Host certainly you dont expect th
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As far away as new york. Maybe further. We are always delighted to welcome our visitors. We want to also welcome our viewers by cspan. So i want to let folks in the room know that cspan is here to cover this afternoons conversation. After Alvin Felzenberg i speak we will open up the floor for q a. We will ask those with questions to come down to the microphones that are just here. And ask your question from the microphones. Speak right into the microphone ck the Madison Program here is dedicated to providing our students and members of our community with the best possible civic education. We believe, as mad dissen taught, only a welleducated people can permanently be a free people. So we want to do our part by contributing to the education of our fellow citizens, students and others, when it comes toby fundmental questioned of american constitutionalism and basic political thought. Of course, Like Princeton University as a whole, were a Nonpartisan Organization and we welcome all point
Author of radio shangrila but we go way back to the 80s when we worked together as a tv station in north carolina. So were reconnecting now, with be asking the questions of her which might make her slightly nervous, except i know that she knows the answers to every single question im going to ask her today. Because she researched this book for five years. Welcome, lisa. Thank you so much. Thank you being here with. Host we are happy to have you. Her first book, was holiday raid raid show shangry shangrila. They have Gross National happiness. So were happy to talk about you new book, which is ray and joan, and we many ray croc and this third and final wife, joan croc, his woad dough, and the story is so compelling in some many ways but we need to go back to the beginning a little bit here, because mas mcdonalds is huge, its everywhere, but has really modest beginning in a little town in california with a couple of brothers. So when you started research it took you to where. Guest took m
Detect crime. But when we be more fruitful to say that what we can measure because weve never been able to measure deterrence as long as theres been criminology. If we stop looking at different racial categories and looked across the offending which unfortunately book argues that racism in the, Justice System but then at eight spends a lot of time saying that it is okay to think of black people as it dangerous or potentially dangerous. Guest that is an unjustified statement. Find one place in that book where state that. I say repeatedly that there are the majority of people in these communities are lawabiding, they need support, they are trying to do the right thing by their children. It has nothing to do with impugning black people of somehow all criminal. If you cannot live by the statistics, then you as a criminologist i think are not serving your profession very well. The statistics are what they are. New york city again, 90 of all shootings, this is not [inaudible] host isnt that