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<Fetal personhood laws have been around for years. Why are we only angry now?

Fetal personhood laws have been around for years. Why are we only angry now?

By Grace Howard, author of The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood When I say that the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses are legal persons, many people …

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<Inside a thought-provoking ethnography of a southern US District Attorney’s Office

Inside a thought-provoking ethnography of a southern US District Attorney’s Office

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, …

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<How American Policing Became So Violent

How American Policing Became So Violent

By Jeffrey S. Adler, author of Bluecoated Terror: Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality The horrific recent murders of Tyre Nichols, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Laquan McDonald, …

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