Against the backdrop of Ferguson and the Black Lives Matter movement, we ask what the
American politics subfield has to say about the political lives of communities subjugated by …

The literature on fear of crime has grown rapidly in the last three decades. This paper
examines the reasons for this growth and attempts to put some structure on the work to date …

In the era of mass incarceration, over 600,000 people are released from federal or state
prison each year, with many returning to chaotic living environments rife with violence. In …

From the Cold War through today, the US has quietly assisted dozens of regimes around the
world in suppressing civil unrest and securing the conditions for the smooth operation of …

In his first year working in Los Angeles's Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street
by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there.Juliette, a woman …

After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the
United States more than quadrupled in the past four decades. The Committee on the …

Democratic policing today is a widely used approach to policing not only in Western
societies but increasingly around the world. Yet it is rarely defined and it is little understood …

Beginning in the 1970s, the United States began an experiment in mass imprisonment.
Supporters argued that harsh punishments such as imprisonment reduce crime by deterring …

The rise of mass incarceration in the United States is one of the most critical outcomes of the
last half-century. Incarceration Nation offers the most compelling explanation of this outcome …

This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments
around the world have started to use data-driven applications to produce crime forecasts …