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Policing, Incarceration, and Reform
Interviews with scholars of policing, incarceration and reform about their new books
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…
August 2, 2024
Murder by Mail
Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb (Reaktion, 2024) by Dr. Mitchel P. Roth and Dr. Mahmut Cengiz unfolds the gripping history of weap…
August 1, 2024
Let My People Go (with Matt Osborne)
LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED: The topic of today’s episode is human trafficking and crimes against children, usually sexual crimes, and sometimes ri…
July 31, 2024
Smoke But No Fire
Jessica Henry's Smoke But No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened (U California Press, 2021) explores a shocking but all-too-co…
July 31, 2024
Cooperation
Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path—cooperati…
July 29, 2024
The Constitution of the War on Drugs
The U.S. government's decades-long "war on drugs" is increasingly recognized as a moral travesty as well as a policy failure. The criminalization of …
July 19, 2024
Ransom Kidnapping in Italy
For over thirty years, modern Italy was plagued by ransom kidnappings perpetrated by bandits and organised crime syndicates. Nearly 700 men, women, an…
July 18, 2024
Freeman's Challenge
Today’s book is: Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit (U Chicago Press, 2024), by Dr. Robin Bernstein, whic…
July 14, 2024
Queering Law and Order
Throughout US history, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have been pathologized, victimized, and criminalized. Reports of …
July 9, 2024
Dismantling Mass Incarceration
In recent years, a searching national conversation has called attention to the social and racial injustices that define America’s criminal system. The…