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 …
Read More >by Joachim J. Savelsberg, author of Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur. A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s …
Read More >By Lesley J. Pruitt, author of The Women in Blue Helmets: Gender, Policing, and the UN’s First All-Female Peacekeeping Unit This guest post is published as part of a series in relation to the Academy of …
Read More >We are pleased to announce that fourteen of our titles have been awarded Outstanding Academic Title for 2015 by CHOICE! This selective list, announced in every year’s January issue, consists of only about ten percent of the …
Read More >This guest post comes from Zachary Shore, author of Grad School Essentials: A Crash Course in Scholarly Skills, who debunks 5 myths about attending grad school. 1) You are supposed to read every word of …
Read More >Join University of California Press this fall at the 2015 American Society of Criminology. The meeting convenes November 18-21 in Washington, DC. Visit us at our booth in the Washington Hilton Hotel …
Read More >In Escape to Prison, the culmination of years of international research, noted criminologist Michael Welch explores ten prison museums on six continents, examining the complex interplay between culture and punishment. From Alcatraz …
Read More >In the wake of a new school year, Susan Sered, co-author of Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility, reflected upon the (often limited) access to …
Read More >Join University of California Press in Chicago this summer for the 2015 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. The meeting convenes August 22-25 in Chicago. Please visit us at booths 301 and 303 …
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