{"id":98756,"date":"2016-01-15T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=98756"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:15:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:15:57","slug":"rocque-petrella-offer-choice-words-on-mlk-day-theme-of-incarceration-and-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/01\/15\/rocque-petrella-offer-choice-words-on-mlk-day-theme-of-incarceration-and-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocque, Petrella &#8217;06 offer choice words on MLK Day theme of incarceration and citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor of Sociology Michael Rocque and colleague Chris Petrella \u201906, a First-Year Seminar lecturer at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, comment on the 2016 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ MLK Day theme, &#8220;Mass Incarceration and Black Citizenship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Michael Rocque and Christopher Petrella on the 2016 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ MLK Day theme, &quot;Mass Incarceration and Black Citizenship&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/151688471?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/faculty\/michael-rocque\/\">Rocque<\/a>, a co-chair of the MLK Day Planning Committee, researches criminological theory, racial disparities in the criminal justice system, and desistance from crime.<\/p>\n<p>An essayist and media commentator who <a href=\"http:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2015\/06\/10\/the-point\/4-reasons-to-doubt-the-ferguson-effect-and-claims-of-a-national-crime-wave\/\">brings clarity to issues<\/a> of inequity in law enforcement and the criminal justice system, Rocque has said that he&#8217;s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/09\/17\/bates-welcomes-new-faculty-michael-rocque-sociology\/\">driven by a desire to assist in the quest for social justice.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Petrella is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studies the relationship among race, incarceration, and modern capitalism. 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