In Violence Work Micol Seigel offers a new theorization of the quintessential incarnation of
state power: the police. Foregrounding the interdependence of policing, the state, and global …

From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the
expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday life Prison …

As the United States began the project of mass incarceration, rural communities turned to
building prisons as a strategy for economic development. More than 350 prisons have been …

“This book was written late in the North American night, with the rumbling thuds and
booming train horns of the nearby rail yard echoing through my windows, reminding me of …

Abolition is both a vision and a practice. As abolitionists, we envision a world without
prisons. We must also make that world together. Abolition is thus more than an ideological …

Green criminology has sought to blur the nature–culture binary and this article seeks to
extend recent work by geographers writing on landscape to further our understanding of the …

This essay triangulates three areas of focus:“rethinking exceptionalism,” a premodern
European philosopher, and the abolition of modern police and prisons as instruments of …

This chapter begins by noting how green criminology and cultural criminology both push
against the conventional boundaries of criminology, and so tend to upset the definitional and …

“By 'modernity'I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent,” wrote Baudelaire (1964
[1863]: 13), famously,“the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.” By …

Criminal records have become an increasingly important mechanism for managing and
containing criminalized populations beyond prison walls. This ethnographic analysis of a …