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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…
In his book The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Healthcare in Rust Belt America (Harvard University Press, 2021), Gabriel Winant expl…
Universities have become state-like entities, possessing their own hospitals, police forces, and real estate companies. To become such behemoths, high…
In the 1970s and 1980s, a group of Chicago police officers routinely tortured criminal suspects in their custody, while fellow cops, state attorneys a…
Following World War II, in the midst of global decolonization and intensifying freedom struggles within its borders, the United States developed a wor…
Recent scholarship locates the origins of mass incarceration in national anticrime policy from 1960 to 1990, and has drastically reframed the “punitiv…