A remotely-recorded podcast episode with Ion Meyn (SSRN; Law Repository), Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Professor Meyn discusses his new article, “White-on-Black Crime: Revisiting the Convict Leasing Narrative”, recently published in the Wisconsin Law Review. This article examines the years between 1880-1915 and the growing amount of evidence that suggests criminal convictions of Black men were the result of criminal conspiracies to traffic Black victims. This human trafficking inflated the historical Black crime rate but also obscured the criminal conduct of white beneficiaries.
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The interview was conducted on May 16, 2024. | 49:17 minutes; published June 24, 2024. Transcript file (PDF).
Links to the Podcast: Soundcloud | Apple Podcasts