Episode 6: Race, Crime, and Culture with Barry Latzer

National Association of Scholars

Today we are releasing the sixth episode of Curriculum Vitae, our weekly podcast hosted by NAS President Peter Wood. In this episode, Peter Wood sits down with criminologist Barry Latzer to discuss his article, "Race, Crime, and Culture," from the winter issue of Academic Questions. This issue of AQ is themed "Unorthodox Ideas." Barry discusses his book on twentieth-century crime—and the backlash he faced for it. 

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