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Policing, Incarceration, and Reform
Interviews with scholars of policing, incarceration and reform about their new books
March 15, 2026
Uncivil Guard
In Uncivil Guard: Policing, Military Culture, and the Coming of the Spanish Civil War (Louisiana State UP, 2025), Foster Chamberlin evaluates the role…
March 12, 2026
Imperial Depths
The notion of abolishing prisons strikes some as an impossible dream: could we could reasonably conceive of a society that responded to harm without t…
March 1, 2026
Five Evil Women
Why do certain women become icons of evil? Five Evil Women: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker (Reaktion, 2026) by Professor Joanna Bourke offers…
February 26, 2026
Flipping Capo
Séamus McElearney's early days on an FBI organized crime squad were full of grunt work. For months he was mired in administrative tasks, including th…
February 21, 2026
Moral Storytelling in 1920s New York, Odessa, and Bombay
Using public storytelling as a driving force, Moral Storytelling in 1920s New York, Odessa, and Bombay: Sex, Crime, Violence, and Nightlife in the Mod…
February 12, 2026
The Power of the State
When young people began disappearing in Argentina, their mothers searched for answers. Despite laws prohibiting protests and political gatherings, the…
February 10, 2026
Police Against the Movement
Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back (Princeton UP, 2025) shatters one of the most…
February 8, 2026
A Protest History of the United States
In December 2025, writer, civil rights attorney, playwright, speaker, and Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Glo…
February 6, 2026
A Continuous Struggle
The first biography of the revolutionary political prisoner who laid the foundation for contemporary abolitionist struggles and Black anarchism. A Co…
February 2, 2026
Unforgiving Places
Disproving the popular narrative that shootings are the calculated acts of malicious or desperate people, Ludwig shows how most shootings actually gro…
February 1, 2026
Let Us Alone
The racist roots of modern policing in Baltimore By the early twentieth century, postbellum assaults on civil rights and the advent of Jim Crow expan…
January 29, 2026
Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine
Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flour…
January 25, 2026
Dark Concrete
Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis (Cornell UP, 2025) by Dr. Kimberley Johnson is about how the Black Power movement resh…
January 25, 2026
Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900
Execution, State and Society in England, 1660–1900 (Cambridge UP, 2023) by Dr. Simon Devereaux provides the first comprehensive account of execution p…
January 23, 2026
The Coroner's Silence
Each year, police officers kill over 1,000 people they’ve sworn to protect and serve. While some cases, like George Floyd’s and Sandra Bland’s, captur…
January 21, 2026
Brown and Blue
How police abuse ignited the Chicano movement in the Southwest Brown and Blue: Mexican Americans, Law Enforcement, and Civil Rights in the Southwest,…
January 15, 2026
Worthy of Justice
Over the past three decades, jurisdictions across the United States have developed alternatives to traditional criminal procedures and punishments for…
January 11, 2026
How to Recognize the Mafia Abroad
The influence and spread of clans and families within the ‘ndrangheta - the Calabrian mafia - is international yet recognising their activities is not…
January 4, 2026
Justifying Violent Protest
Was the use of violence on January 6th Capitol attacks legitimate? Is the use of violence morally justified by members of Extinction Rebellion or Just…
January 2, 2026
Policing and Violence in India
Why does Indias police force, created under British rule, still echo the priorities of a bygone empire? And what is it about this institution, tasked …