Drug use is pervasive, generally private, and of long standing. The social effects are
sometimes problematic, but it is a large step to declare a war on drug use. This review …

This article examines the origins of US mass incarceration. Although it is clear that changes
in policy and practice are the proximate drivers of the prison boom, researchers continue to …

“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,” Governor Nelson Rocke fel ler announced,“this is an unusual
press conference.” On January 23, 1973, five Harlem civic leaders joined New York's …

" Twenty years ago, when The Politics of Force was first published, the issue of police
brutality was rarely covered in the news. This book was inspired by events following the Los …

Comparative historical methods are used to explain the transformation of the US penal order
in the second half of the 20th century. The analysis of multiple state-level case studies and …

Rape law reform has long been hailed as one of the most successful projects of second-
wave feminism. Yet forty years after the anti-rape movement emerged, legal and medical …

Scholars and lay persons alike routinely express concern about the capacity of democratic
publics to respond rationally to emotionally charged issues such as crime, particularly when …

The debate over possible bias in the use of deadly force has recently been exacerbated by
highly publicized killings of African American males around the country. While much …

Stigma involves negative beliefs and devaluations of people in socially identified groups,
which some people internalize. Research has increasingly explored mental illness self …

Patterns of crime and punishment in the USA greatly magnify corresponding developments
in other liberal market economies–Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK–faced with …