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Prisons are Still Making COVID-19 Era Mistakes
Nov 07 2024
Unless considerable prisons reforms are made now—like an aggressive 50% reduction in prison population—the next epidemic will provoke calamities similar to COVID-19.
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Q&A with Benjamin Snyder, author of "Spy Plane"
Nov 01 2024
In 2020, the Baltimore Police Department had an aerial surveillance plane that could supposedly photograph and track every person in public view. Spy Plane reveals what happened with this controversial policing experiment.
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System-affected academics are building a movement — and transforming the academy
Oct 30 2024
In October of 2002, I was sitting in the commons area of a cellblock in the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City, waiting my turn to catch a prison plane to my assigned penitentiary. I was both stressed out and exhausted, wired with anxiety.
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Rest in Peace, Darlene
Sep 06 2024
“The tough-looking blonde over there,” is how Darlene was described to us nearly fifteen years ago when we launched our ongoing project with formerly incarcerated women in Massachusetts. Our first conversation was brief; her words were clipped. She gave the impression that she was annoyed, that she was in a hurry to go somewhere important.
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We already have the tools to better address human trafficking
Aug 22 2024
July 30th is the UN-recognized World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, while January 11th is the US-recognized National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. While these days are crucial for shining a spotlight on the problem, the conversation often stops short of deeper insights and solutions. Criminological theories can offer us the foundation and tools to do just that.
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Fetal personhood laws have been around for years. Why are we only angry now?
Jun 03 2024
By Grace Howard, author of The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting PersonhoodWhen I say that the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses are legal persons, many people may assume I’m talking about the recent opinion that stated embryos created in the cour
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Inside a thought-provoking ethnography of a southern US District Attorney’s Office
May 23 2024
Gun Present takes us inside the everyday operations of the law at a courthouse in the Deep South. Illuminating the challenges accompanying the prosecution of criminal cases involving guns, the three coauthors—an anthropologist, a geographer, and a district attorney—present a deeply human portrait of
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How American Policing Became So Violent
Apr 09 2024
By Jeffrey S. Adler, author of Bluecoated Terror: Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police BrutalityThe horrific recent murders of Tyre Nichols, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Laquan McDonald, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and many other African American citizens have brought increased p
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Lessons on the Lawyer-Client Relationship from a Harrowing, Deportation Case
Dec 19 2023
By Rebecca Sharpless, author of Shackled: 92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE AirMy new book Shackled recounts the harrowing real-life experiences of 92 individuals abused during a failed deportation flight to Somalia. Through the eyes of Sa’id Janale and Abdulahi Hassan, the book exposes the grim rea
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“Rehabilitated” Identities
Nov 15 2023
Cesraéa Rumpf, author of RECOVERING IDENTITY, writes about criminalized women "rehabilitating" their identities.
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