by Susan Starr Sered, co-author of Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility We continue to spend time with some of the women described in Can’t Catch …
Read More >September 23 – 28 is 2019’s Banned Books Week. Held annually since 1982 and sponsored by the American Library Association and the American Booksellers Association, Banned Books Week is celebrated “in shared …
Read More >In 2017, recording artist Meek Mill was sentenced to two years in prison for violating the terms of a probation agreement he’d been subject to his entire adult life. His prison sentence—imposed, …
Read More >UC Press warmly congratulates Mark Godsey on his receipt of the 2019 award for Best Book Published by a University Press for his book, Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology …
Read More >By Miriam Boeri and Rashi K. Shukla, editors of Inside Ethnography: Researchers Reflect on the Challenges of Reaching Hidden Populations This guest post is part of our ASA blog series published in conjunction with …
Read More >By Tasseli McKay, Megan Comfort, Christine Lindquist, and Anupa Bir; authors of Holding On: Family and Fatherhood during Incarceration and Reentry This guest post is part of our ASA blog series published in conjunction with …
Read More >At this year’s American Sociological Association conference, we celebrate the work of our award-winning authors. Congratulations to our wonderful scholars, teachers, and activists. #ASA19 #ScholarActivist Abigail Leslie Andrews, Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the …
Read More >This year’s American Sociological Association conference in New York City from August 10 – August 13 includes many exciting sessions featuring some of our wonderful UC Press authors! You can see the …
Read More >Understanding the history and motives for the United States’s deeply embedded, systematic, and institutionalized racism against minorities and immigrants, and the acts of brutal violence that have ensued over and over again, …
Read More >By Andrea S. Boyles, author of You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America This guest post is part of our ASA blog series published in conjunction with the …
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