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Youth for Justice Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago
Symposium on Disproportionate Minority Contact
June 9-10, 2004 - Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois

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OVERVIEW
Throughout the United States, a disproportionate percentage of racial minorities come in contact with the juvenile and criminal justice systems. The issue of disproportionate minority contact (DMC) raises difficult questions for the American criminal justice system. Suspicions about DMC threaten victim cooperation with police and prosecutors, the participation of minority jurors, and the validity of judicial decisions among members of minority and majority communities alike. Most fundamentally, DMC challenges the basic American assumption that everyone receives "equal justice under law."

To address these concerns, the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago (CRFC) will convene a Symposium on Disproportionate Minority Contact. The Symposium will focus on what is and is not known concerning the causes of DMC and promising strategies in reducing it. The Symposium will also feature a compendium of resources and strategies, in print and on CD-ROM, which will feature this information, proceedings from the Symposium, and additional resources from the conference sponsors.

FEATURED PRESENTERS
REGISTRATION
Registration for the Symposium will be $100 per participant. Download Registration Form here. Return completed applications with registration fee not later than May 7, 2004 to:

Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago
407 South Dearborn, Suite 1700
Chicago, Illinois 60065-1119

Registration is $100 payable to the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago. Fee must accompany application. Applicants will be notified regarding acceptance not later than May 17. Registration fee is non-refundable after that date.

SITE & LODGING
The conference will be held at Columbia College on 624 South Michigan Avenue, across the street from Grant Park and just three blocks from the Art Institute of Chicago.

Hotel accommodations for the symposium are at the Hyatt on Printers Row, located in Chicago's historic South Loop and a short walk from Columbia College. The single/double rate for the hotel is $155.00. Reservations must be made by May 19, 2004. You are responsible for making your own reservations. Call 312/986-1234 and ask for the "DMC Symposium."

PARTICIPANTS
The Symposium will be limited to 50 participants, including U.S. Justice Department staff, grantees, and contractors; local, state, and federal police and public safety officials; local, state, and federal judges and court personnel; juvenile justice and corrections personnel.

The Symposium will include up to 20 representatives from the national Youth for Justice LRE network who will be selected by State LRE Centers and accepted on the basis of their state dissemination plans submitted in advance of the symposium.

The Symposium is an initiative of the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago. Support is provided in part through funds from Youth for Justice, the national coordinated law-related education (LRE) program supported by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency prevention, U.S. Department of Justice.

Last updated: April 2, 2004

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