For Mother’s Day, author Natalia Molina remembers her grandmother Doña Natalia Barraza, the impressive woman who opened the Nayarit restaurant in Echo Park, Los Angeles in 1951. The restaurant became an urban …
Read More >By Jessica T. Simes, author of Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment Despite growing attention to the problem of mass incarceration, we are still only beginning to capture its far-reaching harms. …
Read More >By Andrea Leverentz, author of Intersecting Lives: How Place Shapes Reentry In October 2014, a bridge that connected Long Island in Boston Harbor to Moon Island — as well as Squantum Peninsula …
Read More >On Saturday, January 19th at the Society for Social Work Research conference in San Francisco, law professor Leigh Goodmark will speak on a multi-faceted policy approach needed to decriminalize domestic violence. In Goodmark’s book, …
Read More >This guest post is published during the American Society of Criminology conference in Philadelphia, occurring November 15-18, and in relation to this year’s ASC theme of Crime, Legitimacy and Reform: Fifty years since the President’s …
Read More >Starbucks took hold so quickly and opened stores in so many places so fast that we learned to characterize a place as with Starbucks or without it—as part of the stream of …
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