Journals

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 […]

The American Politics of Policing and Incarceration Jeffrey C. Isaac The September issue of Perspectives on Politics features a range of articles, essays, book reviews, and dialogues on “The American Politics of Policing and Incarceration.” […]