Criminal Justice
Death & Politics at Attica Alexander Street Press, Blue Sky… Read More »Criminal Justice
Policing and Law
This theme refers to prison’s multiple roles in contemporary society, including the ways imprisonment structures, and is structured by, other institutions. Users looking for material on the economic and social functions of prison will find it here. We welcome feedback on this organization during our beta period.
Subthemes
Criminalization
Death Penalty
Jail and Bail
Legal Issues
New Jim Crow
Police Procedures
War on Drugs
War on Terror
Broken on All Sides
Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice in… Read More »Broken on All Sides
Black Death in Dixie
Racism and the Death Penalty in the United States Films… Read More »Black Death in Dixie
Baltimore Uprising
Al-Jazeera Paul Abowd Fault Lines June 17, 2015 On April… Read More »Baltimore Uprising
We Need to Talk About an Injustice
TED Talks Bryan Stevenson March 1, 2012 In an engaging… Read More »We Need to Talk About an Injustice
Beyond the Bars: Breaking Through
The Justice Initiative at Columbia University Beth Richie May 30,… Read More »Beyond the Bars: Breaking Through
2013 George E. Kent Lecture
University of Chicago Michelle Alexander February 21, 2013 Michelle Alexander,… Read More »2013 George E. Kent Lecture
Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States
University of Chicago press Daniel LaChance November 1, 2016 In… Read More »Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States
Down on Parchman Farm
The Great Prison in the Mississippi Delta Ohio State University… Read More »Down on Parchman Farm
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault In this important work, Foucault suggests that such vaunted reforms… Read More »Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison