Wednesday, December 16, 2015

No New Jail in San Francisco... Now What?

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The long-standing debate about the construction of an alternative to San Francisco's Jail no. 4 at 850 Bryant ended yesterday with a vic...
Saturday, December 5, 2015

Reiter on Solitary Confinement

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Keramet Reiter of UC Irvine has recently done a Q&A with the Berkeley Human Rights Center on solitary confinement, her topic of expertis...
Saturday, November 28, 2015

Podcast Review: Serial

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On the last episode of the acclaimed podcast Serial , Sarah Koenig speaks to a retired police detective and asks him whether any murder ca...
Sunday, November 22, 2015

Film Review: Ant-Man

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I’m on my way back home from the American Society ofCriminology annual meeting in Washington, DC, where I learned lots of interesting th...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Facts, Values, and Cameras: Police Use of Lethal Force

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The Oakland police is being sued for the killing of Demouria Hogg. The Huffington Post reports: Oakland firefighters found an unresponsiv...
Tuesday, November 3, 2015

New Issue of Social Justice: Beyond Incarceration

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The journal Social Justice has a new issue out, titled Beyond Mass Incarceration: Crisis and Critique in North American Penal Systems . Th...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Film Review: The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

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The new documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution  opens with the renown story of the blind men touching an elephant, and...