Governing through Crime

Today's NYTimes carries an obituary for Randall Dale Adams, who died last year of a brain tumor, with only local media taking note. Ada...

Rates of crime reported to the police in the UK appear stable, maintaining a long term downward trend of over a decade. The politics of cri...

Deborah Sontag's outstanding feature on the murder of a psychiatric facility worker by a schizophrenic patient with a history of violen...

Twenty years ago, and after Foucault had been dead for nearly seven years, a book titled The Foucault Effects: Studies in Governmentality w...

I'm ending my work week with a large Amen to a column just published by Stephen Yair Liebb and Hector Oropeza on the Brown v. Plata ca...

It was the pictures that did it. When the Supreme Court was compelled to look at pictures of the refugee camp like chaos and overcrowding i...

Just think of prisons as a kind of housing, the new public housing, and it may seem less crazy to wonder if the decline of the portion of Am...