Wednesday, January 26, 2011

War on Crime Anyone? How to respond and not respond to January's heavy toll of outrageous murders and attempted murders

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In case anyone has been hiking in desert for the month of January, we are the midst of a wave of frightening murders and attempted murders i...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

The US Death Penalty: A European Perspective

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Watching America's death penalty moves from a half year into my stay in Europe has been interesting. As Erik Eckholm and Katie Zezima r...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Progress and Peril in California's Prison Crisis

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Maria Lagos of the SF Chron provided an excellent year start summary and analysis of where things stand with California's both chronic ...
Saturday, January 8, 2011

The Other White Meat: Governing through Crime, Race, and Gender

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The intricacy with which the politics of crime and the politics of race are intertwined in the US is distinctive but not unique. The latest...
Sunday, January 2, 2011

Metaphors we live by, part ?: "Imprisoned in their homes"

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The home, and especially home ownership, is one of the most powerful anchor metaphors for citizenship in our post-modern democracy. In past...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

The Strangers We Know

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As sociologists of urban American have powerfully documented, our inner city neighborhoods of highly concentrated poverty have suffered unde...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Homeroom security

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Even though my blurb reads like a teaser aimed at security minded parents of school age children anxious to find out what research can tell...