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Courts at Their Best – and Worst

Judges can give us hope despite the deeply flawed among them.
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Imagining a Future Built on Abolition and Queer Justice

How to fight for queer justice in a time of continued criminalization and targeted attacks on queer communities.
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"California History" Announces the 2024 Winner of the Richard J. Orsi Prize

Congratulations to Erica Toffoli whose article “Electric Eyes: Surveillance, Sovereignty, and the Limits of the Border Patrol’s Technocratic Vision on the U.S.-Mexico Line” has won this year's Orsi Prize, which recognizes the best research essay published in the journal "California History" each year.
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Visions of Prisons: Wars, Walls, and Watching

by Michael Welch (Author)
Apr 2026
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Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration

by Matthew D.C. Larsen (Author), Mark Letteney (Author)
Aug 2025
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Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation

by Abigail Leslie Andrews (Author)
Jul 2024
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