Rehabilitation and Corrections in the Era of Mass Incarceration
A Chat with Citizen Critic Dr. Rita Shah about The Meaning of Rehabilitation and Its Impact on Parole: There and Back Again in California
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I’m not racist; I’m nostalgic for racial terror: The Debate Over Confederate Monuments
For over a century a 16.5-foot-tall statue of Robert E. Lee towered over the city of New Orleans, standing as a symbol of the Confederate insurrection and vario...
Examining Arguments for ‘Campus Carry’
The debate over guns on campus has been intensifying in recent years as more state legislatures debate and pass what are commonly called “campus carry” laws. Th...
Bad Hombres, Good People and Being ‘Great’
President Donald Trump’s first executive action strengthens the ability of US immigration authorities to control “bad hombres”. It intensifies operations in Sou...
Executive branch signals return to tough on crime policies
Over the past few years, criminal justice scholars and policy makers shifted from “tough on crime” language to “smart on crime” language. Under the current admi...
The Quiet Death of Community Policing
Much of the consternation about the current administration’s executive orders is over how to decode the intent from the bluster. While there is much focus on th...
Racist Strawman Rhetoric on the White House Website
On Inauguration Day, the transition from President Barack Obama to President Donald J. Trump felt especially swift given how fast issues like Climate Change and...