By Francine Banner, author of Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems What does it mean to be complicit? This question is at the heart of my book, Beyond …
Read More >In This Place Called Prison offers a vivid account of religious life within an institution designed to punish. Rachel Ellis conducted a year of ethnographic fieldwork inside a U.S. state women’s prison, …
Read More >“With issues like bad lawyering, bad science, and inadequate investigations, it’s easy to draw the line between the cause and effect of a wrongful conviction.”
Read More >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our February 2023 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the …
Read More >By Susan Sered, author of Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility The following blog is reposted from the author’s ongoing blog about updates from the women of Can’t Catch …
Read More >In this video, sociologist Lynne Haney offers a sneak peek at her book, Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers. “Prisons of Debt is a compelling and devastating account and a must-read for …
Read More >Michaela Soyer is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and a first-generation scholar. Her current work focuses on delinquency, incarceration, recidivism and social theory. She has also conducted research about …
Read More >Looking for inspiration in the fight for social change? Author Bryonn Bain shares a playlist of artists and hip-hop heroes who fought for change and who inspired his own activism.
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 >By Geniece Crawford Mondé, author of This Is Our Freedom: Motherhood in the Shadow of the American Prison System In the wake of global protests for justice in the summer of 2020, …
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