Join us for Day 2 of our symposium on healthcare and incarceration in CA! Today's events focus on gender and reproductive justice behind bars: 12:00 PM Introduction 12:10 PM Transgender […]
Join us for the third and final day of California Correctional Crisis: Mass Incarceration, Healthcare, and the COVID-19 Outbreak! 12:00 PM Introduction 12:10 PM […]
Join me and my colleagues, fellow JSP graduates Ashley Rubin and Ming Hsu Chen, as well as fellow JSP graduate and moderator KT Albiston, to celebrate the publication of our […]
SUNY Buffalo's Baldy Center hosts me for a talk about my recent book Yesterday's Monsters--and I promise to talk some about how the book sheds light on the COVID-19 prison […]
Join me, UCLA professor Sharon Dolovich, Ella Baker Center State Campaigner James King, and California Coalition of Women Prisoners' Jane Dorotik, for this important conversation!
Proceedings have begun in Marin County Superior Court against San Quentin State Prison and the California Department of Corrections (CDCR) for what one judge has called “the worst epidemiological disaster […]
Very chuffed to invite everyone to a wonderful book release party for Nomi Levenkron and Tamar Kricheli-Katz's new anthology in Hebrew Law and Policing. The event (in Hebrew) happens both […]
As part of the Association of Israel Studies Annual Meeting at Bar Ilan University, I'll present the paper, "'But What About Arab-on-Arab Crime?' A Comparative View on the Contradictions and Challenges of Addressing Intraethnic and Intraracial Violence", which applies perspectives from American Political Development (APD) to the understanding of intraracial crime comparisons between Israel and […]
Panel on innovations in criminal law! I'll be commenting on papers ranging from the politics of self defense to criminal responsibility of AI entities.
At the LSA Annual Meeting in Lisbon, I will be the discussant for a panel about the emotional toll of conducting research; in my remarks, I'll share some of the experiences of working on my forthcoming book FESTER and supporting people behind bars in their darkest hours.
Papers by criminologists and social historians on penal trends throughout the world. My comments will focus on the malleability of the "developed" and "developing" national dseignations.
"Watson, you know my methods," says Sherlock Holmes. But where did these methods come from? The 19th century was an era of immense excitement about scientific and methodological inventions, and these found their way into a nascent science of crime and forensics. It was a time of pioneering, but it also had a sinister side, […]
