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Policing, Incarceration, and Reform
Interviews with scholars of policing, incarceration and reform about their new books
November 15, 2024
Risk
In this episode of High Theory, Faye Raquel Gleisser tells us about Risk. A calculable danger in economics, athletics, sociology, or healthcare, risk …
November 11, 2024
Dual Justice
The United States incarcerates its citizens for property crime, drug use, and violent crime at a rate that exceeds any other developed nation – and di…
November 3, 2024
Carceral Recovery
Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self (Lexington Books, 2023) explores the interrelation between carceral conditio…
October 8, 2024
Suspect Citizens
We recently marked the 50th Anniversary of Terry vs. Ohio, the US Supreme Court case that dramatically expanded the scope under which agents of the st…
October 2, 2024
The Migrant's Jail
Today, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detains an average of 37,000 migrants each night. To do so, they rely on, and pay for, the use of …
September 30, 2024
The Power of the Badge
The image of the sheriff is deeply embedded in American culture – from pacifist Jimmy Stewart in Destry Rides Again and gun averse Roy Scheider in Jaw…
September 27, 2024
Police First Responders Interacting with Domestic Violence Victims
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Kate Steel, Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of the West …
September 21, 2024
The Secret Police and the Soviet System
The Secret Police and the Soviet System: New Archival Investigations (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023) compiles an array of recent scholarship that draws on …
September 21, 2024
Women of the Mafia
Women of the Mafia: Power and Influence in the Neapolitan Camorra (Cornell UP, 2024) by Dr. Felia Allum dives into the Neapolitan criminal underworld …
September 18, 2024
The Architecture of Good Behavior
Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioral research after the Second World War, new initiatives at the fed…
September 15, 2024
Indefinite
Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have b…
September 5, 2024
A Second Chance
The police officer who brutalized Abner Louima. A purveyor of child pornography. These are some of the defendants to have come before U.S. District Co…
September 4, 2024
The American Surveillance State
When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations a…
September 3, 2024
Imperial Policing
Chicago is a city with extreme concentrations of racialized poverty and inequity, one that relies on an extensive network of repressive agencies to po…
August 23, 2024
Freeman's Challenge
In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended in the North, a village in New York State invented a new form of unfreedom: the profit-dri…
August 18, 2024
Protect Your People
Over two million Americans are currently in prison or jail. Another 4.5 million are on probation or parole. And nearly one in two Americans have a fam…
August 17, 2024
Over-Efficiency in the Lower Criminal Courts
In our pursuit of efficiency in the lower criminal courts, have we lost sight of quality justice? Through the critical examination of original stenogr…
August 15, 2024
Policing and White Power
This June 2020 episode, originally part of a Global Policing series, was Recall this Book's first exploration of police brutality, systemic and person…
August 13, 2024
Asylum Ways of Seeing
Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) by Dr. Heather Murray is a cultura…
August 5, 2024
The Streets Belong to Us
Anne Gray Fischer speaks about her path to and through research, including how sex workers informed her analysis of policing and state violence, the r…