Thursday, December 31, 2009

Punishment in California: the Long View

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As I'm preparing to teach my favorite class at UC Berkeley this spring ( Legal Studies 160: Punishment, Culture, and Society ), I've...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Crime Decline Conundrum

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With aviation terrorism and a still lackluster employment market dominating year end headlines, the one piece of good news appears to be a f...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Prisons and Public Safety: Learning from the "Gitmo North" debate

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President Obama's announcement that the federal government will buy a mothballed supermax prison in northern Illinois (the fact that the...
Sunday, December 13, 2009

Crime Politics and Racial Signals: Evidence from Houston

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In the 1960s, racial conservatives (defenders of the Jim Crow order that was crumbling) used the language of "tough on crime" as a...
Thursday, December 3, 2009

Pre Crime: Why are we so confident that we can prevent acts of terrible violence?

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As politicians and officials in Washington (state) and Arkansas battle over who should have stopped Maurice Clemmons before he apparently sh...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Strike Against Prisons not Education

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With a heavy heart I am not joining many of my students and colleagues who are striking against classes and educational activities at UC Ber...
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Friday, October 23, 2009

Update from the Penal State: Court keeps the pressure on

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As reported by Denny Walsh in yesterday's SACBEE, the special three judge federal court in the Plata-Coleman prison overcrowding mega c...
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