By Katherine Irwin and Karen Umemoto, author of Jacked Up and Unjust: Pacific Islander Teens Confront Violent Legacies This guest post is published in advance of the American Sociological Association conference in Seattle. …
Read More >By Jerry Flores, author of Caught Up: Girls, Surveillance, and Wraparound Incarceration This guest post is published in advance of the American Sociological Association conference in Seattle. Check back every week for …
Read More >Two black men, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling were killed by police this last week, and immediately following, the retaliatory murders of five police officers. These tragic occurrences have sadly become routine. When Andrea …
Read More >We’re pleased to announce that Kitty Calavita and Valerie Jenness have won the 2016 Sutherland Book Award for the Society for the Study of Social Problem’s Law and Society Division for their …
Read More >By Keith Guzik, author of Making Things Stick: Surveillance Technologies and Mexico’s War on Crime This guest post is published in conjunction with the Law and Society Association annual conference in New Orleans, occurring June …
Read More >The 2016 Law and Society meeting convenes June 2 – 5 in New Orleans, LA. See the following UC Press titles and save 40% online with discount code 16E8104, or request an exam copy for consideration to …
Read More >By Corinna Kruse, author of The Social Life of Forensic Evidence I have a confession to make: I find CSI (the long-running TV show Crime Scene Investigation) much less interesting than the non-fictional …
Read More >Without teachers and educators, where would the world be? University of California Press is honored to collaborate with university professors who serve as authors of outstanding scholarship. The work of addressing society’s core challenges …
Read More >By Michela Soyer, author of A Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America When Bill Clinton signed the federal “Three Strikes Bill” in 1994, most of the teenagers I interviewed …
Read More >By Joel M. Caplan and Leslie W. Kennedy, authors of Risk Terrain Modeling This blog post is reposted courtesy of the authors and in conjunction with the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences conference and American Association of …
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