Mass protests against racist police violence in the past decades have led to growing calls for
anti-carceral alternatives, including replacing police officers with social workers for mental …

The term “capitalist carceral state” is composed of two concepts:“capitalism”(especially its
predatory character that is legally obliged to bend to profitability no matter most …

This article addresses social work's place in the movement to “defund the police.” We argue
that social work's collaboration with police and use of policing constitutes carceral social …

The field of medical action extends beyond the clinical encounter. Rather, clinical
encounters are organized by wider regimes of governance and expertise, and broader …

In this article, I examine the United States' antiterrorism framework, Countering Violent
Extremism (CVE), which mobilizes social service providers as terrorist watchdogs and …

Drawing on ethnographic and activist work in New York, I analyze three contemporary cases
of mentally ill people charged violent crimes. State violence against them can be …

REFORM criminology textbooks and classrooms. Critical Resistance has grown from its
Oakland roots to encompass chapters in nine cities and most recently hosted a conference …

Even as rates of crime and lawbreaking in the United States have declined continuously
since the second half of the 20th century, political appeals to law-and-order remains a …

The carceral state's tenacity draws its strength from diverse political and economic pools,
allowing prisons, jails, and other constitutive parts to serve as solutions to very different …

This article examines the connections between systemic racism, racial framing, and police
violence. While media saturation of recent and highly publicized events of police violence …