School of Social Policy & Practice

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The legality of "stop-and-frisk"

Stephanos Bibas

Professor Bibas of the Penn Law School is an ex-prosecutor whose focus includes federal firearms prosecutions and mandatory sentences for crimes involving guns. He can discuss legal issues surrounding gun violence, including "stop and frisk."

Featured below is information on the experts from the Penn Media Seminar on Gun Violence as well as audio transcripts of the proceedings.  The Penn Media Seminar on Gun Violence is one of a series of programs to which reporters, editors and producers from the news media are invited.  

Featured panelists

Audio transcripts

Expert:

  Dr. Richard Gelles

  Dean, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania

Credentials:

* Internationally known expert in child abuse, welfare and neglect, as well as family violence

* Author of "Controversies on Domestic Violence " and "The Violent Home"

* Currently co-authoring "Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families"

Expert:

  Dr. Richard Gelles

  Dean, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania

Credentials:

* Internationally known expert in family violence and child welfare

* Author of "Controversies on Domestic Violence " and "The Violent Home"

* Currently co-authoring "Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families"

Expert:

Joseph McBride

Lecturer, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania

Credentials:

* Nationally recognized expert in death, dying and bereavement

* Served as a consultant with Compassionate Friends, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Victims of Pan Am 103 and the Pennsylvania SIDS Foundation