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10
Dec

Human Rights Day: A Focus on Prison Reform

Today is Human Rights Day, which commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We felt moved to turn this year’s focus on prisoner’s …

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09
Dec

Measuring the Bangkok Rules

This post is published prior to Human Rights Day (December 10) and after the American Society of Criminology conference (November 16 – 19). #ASC2016 #HumanRightsDay by Barbara Owen, co-author of In Search of Safety: Confronting Inequality …

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06
Dec

The “Six” Boroughs: New Jersey

We’ve arrived at the “sixth” borough in our blog series celebrating Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. We’ve already visited Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island, and if you missed …

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05
Dec

The Perception of Wine

by Jamie Goode, author of I Taste Red: The Science of Tasting Wine I remember when I first became really interested in the perception of wine. I’d finished my PhD and had …

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30
Nov

Killing Your Neighbors

by Jon Holtzman, author of Killing Your Neighbors: Friendship and Violence in Northern Kenya and Beyond How do we make sense of the horrific things people do to one another? And how …

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29
Nov

The “Six” Boroughs: Manhattan

This is the fifth of the “six” boroughs blog series celebrating Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. We’ve already visited Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island. If …

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