The Rise of America’s Prison Empire
Robert Perkinson teaches U.S. political history and is chair of American Studies at the University…
Browsing: Carceral state
The Suburban Imperatives of America’s War on Drugs
Matthew D. Lassiter is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is…
Welfare and Incarceration in the U.S.
Julilly Kohler-Hausmann is an Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University. She received her doctorate…
Robert Chase on the Prisoners’ Rights Movement
Robert T. Chase is an assistant professor of history at Stony Brook University, State University…
Miroslava Chávez-García: Youth of Color and California’s Carceral State
Miroslava Chávez-García is professor in the Chicana & Chicano Studies Department at the University of…
Alex Lichtenstein: Flocatex and the Fiscal Limits of Mass Incarceration
Alex Lichtenstein teaches U.S. and South African history at Indiana University, Bloomington. His first book,…
Seigel: A Field-Changing Special Issue for a Swiftly-Changing Field
Micol Seigel is associate professor of American Studies and History at Indiana University, Bloomington, where…
Jeffrey Adler: Less Crime, More Punishment
Jeffrey S. Adler is professor of History and Criminology and Distinguished Teaching Scholar at the University…
Timothy Stewart-Winter: Queer Law and Order
Timothy Stewart-Winter is an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University-Newark. His first book Queer…
The Size and Scope of the Carceral State
Kelly Lytle Hernández, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, and Heather Ann Thompson are the contributing editors for…