Wednesday, July 8, 2015

A Summer Classic: Moral Panic over a Pier Shooting

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It is a reminder of how hard the past is to leave behind (especially when your leading politicians belong to it).   By...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

To Start a Race War: Dylann Roof and the Ideology of White Supremacy

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The mass murder of parishioners at the historic Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, South Carolina law week, by a ...
Saturday, May 9, 2015

Capital Punishment's Loyal Officer

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It was a zinger worthy of a Presidential debate (and almost certainly just as planned).  Justice Samuel Alito, confronted Federal Public De...
Saturday, January 3, 2015

Do we really need the police? Not as much as we need air.

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The astoundingly crude and arrogant response of NYPD rank and file to the tragic murder of two officers by an unstable young man last month ...
Friday, December 5, 2014

If Black Lives Matter, End the War on Crime

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From the perspective of tens of thousands of protesters around the nation this week, the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and ...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Proposition 47: A Simple Step Toward Reducing Mass Incarceration

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California Proposition 47, on the ballot for voter consideration this November, would change the legal classification of many "nonserio...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

Carceral Geographies: Mapping the escape routes from mass incarceration

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Today and tomorrow (September 8-19) at UC Berkeley we will be launching a new undergraduate “ course thread ”  titled “ Carceral Geo...