Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Yesterday's Monsters Coming Early 2020

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I'm very excited to let you know that Yesterday's Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole is already in ...
Friday, June 14, 2019

When Cheap on Crime Becomes Mainstream: Santa Clara to Divert Nonviolent Drug Offenders

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Chapter 3 of Cheap on Crime opens with a 2009 headline from the San Francisco Chronicle, which reads, " Many Contra Costa Crooks Won...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Is Race "Baked" into the Criminal Justice System?

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Today, San Francisco D.A. George Gascón announced a new program: race-blind prosecutions, aided by machine learning. The San Francisco Chron...
Friday, June 7, 2019

Madam Secretary and How Things Could Be: Democracts, What Is your Criminal Justice Agenda?

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The wonderful CBS series Madam Secretary , whose fifth season is out, features Téa Leoni as Elizabeth McCord, a Secretary of State in a p...
Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Cruelty to Migrant Kids Is Not "Cheap on Crime"

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The Washington Post reports this absolutely heartbreaking piece of news: The Trump administration is canceling English classes, recreati...

How Did Bay Area Cities Reduce Gun Homicides?

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An interesting article in the Guardian discusses the impressive drop in gun homicides in the Bay Area. As San Francisco and other cities ex...

More Progressive Punitivism, the Manafort Edition: Conservatives, Maoists, and the SCUM Manifesto

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 This morning on Twitter, Shaun King took on the schadenfreude festival that surrounded the reports that Paul Manafort--perhaps the shrewd...