The police need public support and cooperation to be effective in controlling crime and
holding offenders accountable. In many disadvantaged communities of color, poor …

In the past three decades, incarceration has become an increasingly powerful force for
reproducing and reinforcing social inequalities. A new wave of sociological research details …

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 …

Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is
an unflinching dissection of the racial biases built into the American prison system. Named …

A series of deaths of Black Americans at the hands of the police sparked mass protests,
received extensive media coverage, and fueled a new civil rights movement in the years …

Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a
crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this …

Crime and Everyday Life, Fourth Edition, provides an illuminating glimpse into roots of
criminal behavior, explaining how crime can touch us all in both small and large ways. This …

At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled so
quickly and to such capacity than in the United States. And nowhere has this growth been …

Contact with the criminal justice system is greater today than at any time in our history. In this
article, we argue that interactions with criminal justice are an important source of political …

With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other"
disorderly" people continue to occupy public space in many American cities. Concerned …