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Featured Analysis — The Problem with a Good Thing: Dangers of Demanding Justice, by Rachel Wahl
Posted on February 26, 2013 | 3 CommentsPolice officers locking the gate of a police station, during a protest condemning the rape of a 23-year-old woman. Photo cropped. (Tsering Topgyal / AP) The Problem with a Good Thing: Dangers of Demanding Justice Rachel Wahl “Hold police accountable for rapes” cries out […] -
The Power of Police (?) – NYC Crime and Prison Population Drop
Posted on February 11, 2013 | No CommentsConsider some of the recent debates over the power of (NYPD) policing in reducing crime and the prison population: John Tierney, “Prison Population Can Shrink When Police Crowd Streets,” The New York Times. January 25, 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/26/nyregion/police-have-done-more-than-prisons-to-cut-crime-in-new-york.html?smid=pl-share While the American prison population has doubled in the past two decades, […] -
Michelle Alexander in the NYT – “Why Police Officers Lie Under Oath”
Posted on February 11, 2013 | No CommentsCheck out Michelle Alexander’s Op-Ed piece in the New York Times. Thoughts? Comments? Michelle Alexander, “Why Police Lie Under Oath,” The New York Times. February 2, 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/opinion/sunday/why-police-officers-lie-under-oath.html?_r=0 Perversely, the criminal justice system gives officers an incentive to perjure themselves. -
Conflicting Conceptions of Justice in the 1970s: Policing and Racial Disparities by Delores Jones-Brown (2/11/13)
Posted on February 5, 2013 | No CommentsPolicing and Racial Disparities Delores Jones-Brown 7:00-8:30pm, February 11, 2013 John Jay College, CUNY T-Building – Haaren Hall, Room: 630 899 10th Avenue New York, NY 10019 Delores Jones-Brown is a Professor in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John […] -
CFP- Police, Prisons and Power: Interdisciplinary Grad Student Conference (Submissions Due Feb. 25)
Posted on January 22, 2013 | 1 CommentCall for Papers: Police, Prisons, and Power: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Criminal Justice The Prison Studies Group’s Third Annual Graduate Student Conference April 12, 2013 Graduate students are invited to submit proposals for The Prison Studies Group’s third annual interdisciplinary graduate student conference to take place […]
