663: Amy Shlosberg: Women, Crime, and Our Dysfunctional Criminal Justice System

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Amy Shlosberg, Ph.D , is an Associate Professor of Criminology and Department Chair at Fairleigh Dickinson University where she teaches courses on Wrongful Conviction, Offender Reentry and Reintegration, Race and Crime, Penology, Comparative Justice Systems, Data Analysis and Research Methods. Her primary research focuses on miscarriages of justice, the negative implications of incarceration and issues surrounding reentry, with an emphasis on policy and procedural reform. She is also the co-host of two podcasts: Women & Crime and Direct Appeal Amy and I connect via Instagram (where all the best relationships are born) and I immediately knew I wanted to have her on the show. The work she is doing in our criminal justice system is so important. And it’s so important that all of us US citizens understand the way our system works - and repeatedly fails to work. I learned so much in this conversation and I think you will too. Listen in to hear Amy share: How she got involved teaching people in prisons and why it lights her up The impact of bringing university students into her prison classroom What inspired her and her podcast co host to create Women & Crime How women can be offenders and victims in our criminal justice system at the same time Her thoughts on whether or not our current criminal justice system works How the culture of poverty impacts our criminal justice system Why people are wrongfully convicted and the role of bias in wrongful convictions The problem with our bail system Why she has hope for our criminal justice system in spite of its current Links mentioned: Take my Shameless Summer Survey and win $100 gift card: shamelessmom.com/survey Connect with Amy: womenandcrimepodcast.com/ Podcast: Women and Crime Podcast: Direct Appeal Women and Crime on Instagram and Facebook: @womenandcrimepodcast Sponsor info and promo codes: Please find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/ Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 663 with Amy Schlossberg.
0:06.0	Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going
0:09.8	to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 663.
0:17.9	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean.
0:21.9	I'm here to give you and other passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources,
0:27.7	and a little bit of humor to help you lead more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day.
0:33.9	One of the best things about the Shameless Mom Academy is our community.
0:36.9	So be sure to join us in our free
0:38.5	private Facebook group to connect with other shameless moms just like you. You can find us over
0:43.5	at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook. All right, let's dive into today's episode.
0:54.0	Amy Schlossberg, PhD, is an associate professor of criminology and department chair at Fairleigh
0:59.9	Dickinson University, where she teaches courses on wrongful conviction, offender reentry and
1:05.0	reintegration, race and crime, penology, comparative justice systems, data analysis, and research methods.
1:13.2	Her primary research focuses on miscarriages of justice, the negative implications of
1:18.3	incarceration and issues surrounding reentry, with an emphasis on policy and procedural
1:24.0	reform. She's also the co-host of two podcasts, Women in Crime and Direct Appeal.
1:30.0	Amy and I connected via Instagram where all the best relationships are born and I immediately
1:34.9	knew I wanted to have her on the show. The work she is doing in our criminal justice system is
1:39.3	so important. And what's even more important is for all of us U.S. citizens to understand the way that our system works and repeatedly fails to work for so many individuals. I learned so much in this conversation and I think that you will too. Listen into here, Amy Share, how she got involved teaching people in prisons and why it lights her up, the impact of bringing her university students
2:01.8	into her prison classrooms, what inspired her and her podcast co-hosts to create their show
2:07.7	women in crime, how women can be offenders and victims in our criminal justice system at the
2:13.8	same time, her thoughts on whether or not our current criminal justice system works,
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