Roger J.R. Levesque, JD, PhD, is a professor of criminal justice in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University and professor of law at Maurer School of Law. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence as well as Adolescent Research Review. He is an award winning author of over a dozen books, most recently Adolescents, Discrimination, and the Law and Adolescence, Privacy, and the Law: A Developmental Science Perspective.
The Science and Law of School Segregation and Diversity examines the sources of the disconnect between scientific findings on school segregation and how the U.S. legal system addresses it; evaluates these sources' empirical and legal foundations; explains why they persist; and reveals what can be done about them.