Monday, May 28, 2012

School Desegregation and the Fear Years

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UC Berkeley Professor David Kirp's powerful op-ed in May 20th Sunday Review section of the New York Times (read it here ) restating the ...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Governing Egypt through Crime

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As Egyptians went to the polls Wednesday in an historic first ever free presidential election, David Kirkpatrick reports in the NYTimes that...
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Monday, May 14, 2012

Hunger for Hope: Solitary Confinement and Administrative Detention in California and Israel

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Cross national comparisons in penology are notoriously tricky, all the more so when the practices involved are the highly problematic one of...
Friday, May 11, 2012

From Civil Rights Confrontation to Crime Commission: Nick Katzenbach's 60s

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If you agree with me that 40 to 50 year spans are an important generational break point for social trends (see my previous post this month) ...
Friday, April 27, 2012

Hope and Change Election?

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It's more than just an echo of the Obama's 2008 campaign. The California ballot in 2012 will carry two measures aimed directly at t...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Are US Prisons Degrading and Inhuman? European Court of Human Rights takes a Pass

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A group of British terrorism suspects were a step closer to extradition to the United States today after a panel of the European Court of Hu...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

Whose Public Safety? Trayvon Martin and Neighborhood Watch

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The killing of teenager Trayvon Martin earlier this month, in Sanford Florida, has inflamed classic concerns about racism and criminal justi...