In a recent New Yorker piece Adam Gopnik writes about mass incarceration in the U.S. It is an interesting piece and worth reading. In this blog I want to do a few of things. The first is to offer a critique of the piece from a framing perspective.

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What do the Hollywood Community Plan and programs for Early Child Development  in Australia have in common? Seemingly, nothing. But what I am about to show, however, is how policy proposals can produce counter-productive results when officials fail to follow the simple predicates of causal sequencing – what we call causal chains – in communications.

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Dean Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., comments on "One of the most interesting and entertaining phenomena of this political season... the so-called 'Occupy' trend." "Started a few weeks ago by a group generally referred to as Occupy Wall Street, people have been gathering at city halls, corporate headquarters, and other institutions of power across the United States to protest a wide range of social and economic ills...."

The concept of “place” has become an important touchstone for advocates of transformational social change. A series of government initiatives all fall under the rubric of place-based models. Dean Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., discusses this in is latest FrameWorks blog. View the latest post at:

Dean Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., in a Frameworks Institute blog, comments on New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s recent statements: “…the research literature firmly supports the finding that there is a strong correlation between high levels of income inequality in a society and civil, social, and political unrest. So why hasn’t his warning resonated with the American public?

UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Dean, Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., discusses Californians’ perceptions of higher education and the public research university in a Frameworks Institute blog. In “Say if Ain’t So!