UC Berkeley JSP Reunion Book Event
Online CA, United StatesJoin 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 […]
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Yesterday’s Monsters Book Talk at the Baldy Center, SUNY Buffalo
Online CA, United StatesSUNY 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 […]
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Mass Incarceration in the Pandemic: Can the Courts Fix Prison Health?
Online CA, United StatesJoin me, UCLA professor Sharon Dolovich, Ella Baker Center State Campaigner James King, and California Coalition of Women Prisoners' Jane Dorotik, for this important conversation!
Vanguard Webinar: A Human Rights Disaster at San Quentin
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 […]
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Book Release Event for a New Israeli Policing Anthology
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 […]
Law and Order: The Israeli Episodes
Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan, IsraelAs 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 […]
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Criminal Law Panel
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.
Emotional Labour of Conducting Research
Sedas Nunes, 2E.03 Lisbon, PortugalAt 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.
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Contrasting penal trends across the Global North and the Global South III
Ala Autónoma, AA 3.24Papers 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.
Sherlock Holmes & The Birth of Crime Science
Manny's 3092 16th Street, San Francisco, United States"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, […]
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FESTER: Carceral Permeability and California’s COVID-19 Correctional Disaster
Join me at UC Berkeley's Center for the Study of Law & Society for a talk about my forthcoming book with Chad Goerzen, FESTER: Carceral Permeability and California's COVID-19 Correctional Disaster. Even against the backdrop of pandemic mismanagement in the United States, the COVID-19 disaster in California's prisons stands out as the worst medical prison […]
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Not Guilty!
UC Hastings, Room 333-201 333 golden gate ave., San Francisco, CA, United StatesLearn about the historic Smithfield Trial, in which two activists who rescued sick piglets from a factory farm were found not guilty by a St. George jury! Let's talk about what this means for the animals and their advocates.