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 …

Criminology has been slow to open up a conversation about decarceration and abolition in
comparison with other disciplines, including history, geography, and gender, race, and …

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in
the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu …

A vast body of research underlies the ascendancy of criminogenic risk assessment, which
was developed to predict recidivism. It is unclear, however, whether the empirical evidence …

Motivated by a critical concern for state‐sanctioned coercion, control, and containment
across “free society,” geographers have extended Foucault's concept of “the carceral” to …

In this report, I focus on property, particularly housing, as an essential race-making institution
and consider its connections to the carceral state. I examine renewed attention to property …

Recent years have seen a burgeoning of scholarship in abolition geography. But what does
it mean to theorize abolition in geography and what do geographers bring to abolition? This …

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 …

The pervasiveness of surveillance, punishment, and control within and outside of spaces
such as jails, prisons, and detention centres suggests that the carceral is becoming an …

Ending the horrors of police violence requires addressing economic inequality In the wake
of the mass protests following the police murder of George Floyd nearly every major …