Governing through Crime
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Too Many Broken Windows or Too Few Immigrants?
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As homicides soar in a number of East (and West) Coast cities, criminologists and police experts are divided on how to explain this dramatic...
Monday, June 25, 2007
Race and the Gang
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The overlap between crime and racialized fear in American society cannot be overestimated. Some forms of criminalization, however, are so de...
Friday, June 22, 2007
"Safety Zones" in California: Dennis Herrera's Bid for the Streets of San Francisco
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With "gang" related violence going up along with the unusually nice weather in San Francisco, City Attorney Dennis Herrera has gon...
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Gated Childhood
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For some years I've been arguing that one of the effects of governing through crime is in the incredible rates of obesity among our chil...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Schools without mercy
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Watching the parade of childhood rituals that attended the last week of the elementary school my children attend (Rosa Parks, Berkeley Unifi...
Fight or Flight: In the minutes after a tragedy begins do you think pedophile or bear attack
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This morning's SF Chronicle bring an AP story perfect to set a father's blood pressure to high, " Utah Boy Killed by Bear While...
Friday, June 15, 2007
The Prison and the College
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Today's New York Times brings a welcome graduation story of Mikki Hidalgo, a formerly incarcerated woman who has completed the transitio...
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