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University of California Press - The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration

A Review of The Feminist War on Crime by Aya Gruber

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By: Sarah McEachern | June 23, 2020

“Gruber examines several feminist movements and their crusades to end gender-based violence, which push the movement toward over-policing.” More

Anthony J. Nocella II, Mark Seis, and Jeff Shantz - Classic Writings in Anarchist Criminology: A Historical Dismantling of Punishment and Domination

A Review of Classic Writings in Anarchist Criminology Anthology

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By: A.W. Strouse | June 18, 2020

“A vital resource for launching a more robust critique of how the field of criminology has been paving the way for totalitarianism.” More

A Review of New Jersey Prison Theater Cooperatives’s Caged

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By: Claire Adler | June 18, 2020

“The play illustrates Black lives in dialogue with a racist system. . . while moments of extraordinary integrity and bravery break through the cracks.” More

Louise K. Waakaa’igan - This Is Where

A Review of This Is Where by Louise K. Waakaa’igan

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By: Stella Brice | June 18, 2020

“Waakaa’igan is a serious poet in a serious place—both psychic and physical. She admits the darkness. She acknowledges the bones scattered on the floor.” More

A Review of Guilty People by Abbe Smith

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By: Ash Holland | June 18, 2020

Abbe Smith’s central premise in Guilty People is fairly straightforward: Who among us isn’t guilty? “The guilty are not a separate species,” Smith writes. More

Judith Levine and Erica R. Meiners - The Feminist and The Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence

A Review of The Feminist and The Sex Offender by Judith Levine and Erica R. Meiners

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By: Claire Adler | June 18, 2020

“A refreshingly hopeful and pragmatic guide for building a broader political movement against both prisons and sexual violence.” More

Emily Bazelon - Charged

A Review of Charged by Emily Bazelon

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By: Amanda Erin Miller | May 28, 2020

“Charged advocates for a new kind of district attorney as the key to reforming the system, one who is intent on true justice over winning.” More

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