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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Learn 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.
Come celebrate with us the release of our book FESTER from UC Press! Party with book reading and signing as well as yummy food.
Book talk, flyers, and food!
