Journals

Police Work: The Centrality of Labor Repression in American Political History Alex Gourevitch The great promise of our capitalist society is that it is organized on the basis of consent, not coercion. When all persons are free […]

Race, Punishment, and Public Opinion Vincent Hutchings On August 9, 2014, an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri, by a white police officer, Darren Wilson. The deadly confrontation occurred […]

Punitive Politics in the United States: The End of an Era? Keally McBride It is a little known fact that Cesare Beccaria should be included among te inspirations of the Founders of the United States. His […]

Democracy and Education Behind Bars Joshua A. Miller In this Praxis Reflection, this paper reflect on the relationship between teaching and imprisonment. I describe a college program at a prison in Jessup, Maryland, and argue that […]

Critical Trialogue on the Carceral State Marie Gottschalk Today, high school and college students across the country are taking courses on mass incarceration. Numerous church and community groups have been reading Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim […]

The Rights Revolution in the Age of Obama and Ferguson: Policing, the Rule of Law, and the Elusive Quest for Accountability Lynda G. Dodd Recent political science scholarship examining the institutional features of the rights revolution […]

Taxing the Poor: Incarceration, Poverty Governance, and the Seizure of Family Resources Mary Katzenstein and Maureen Waller In the last decades, the American state has radically enlarged the array of policy instruments utilized in today’s […]