Patrick Metze (Texas Tech): Death and Texas: The Unevolved Model of Decency. Michael Javen Fortner (Rutgers): The Carceral State and the Crucible of Black Politics: An Urban History of the Rockefeller Drug Laws. Arthur H. Garrison (Kutztown): Disproportionate Incarceration of African Americans: What History and the First Decade of Twenty-First Century Have Brought. James Forman Jr. (Yale): Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow. Kim Shayo Buchanan (USC): E-Race-Ing Gender: The Racial Construction of Prison Rape. Rachel Harmon (Virginia): The Problem of Policing. Richard Delgado (Seattle): The Wretched of the Earth. Roger Koppl and Meghan Sacks (Fairleigh Dickinson): How to Succeed in Criminal Justice Without Really Trying. Kit Kinports (Penn State): Feminist Prosecutors and Patriarchal States. From The Good Men Project, a special series on prisons. The appeal of death row: Why would a California convict opt for a death sentence? Lincoln Caplan reviews The Collapse of American Criminal Justice by William Stuntz (and more and more). Is there an “Obama Effect” on crime? A surprising new theory for the continuing crime decline among black Americans. A review of Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law. A review of The Immorality of Punishment by Michael J. Zimmerman. Prisonless: How modern technology allows prisoners to walk and live among us. A review of Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America by David M. Kennedy (and more and more). Rania Khalek on the shocking ways the corporate prison industry games the system. Abolish death penalty in 4 simple steps: In the aftermath of Troy Davis, activists say they're closer than ever. Some people’s brains may doom them to a life of crime: An excerpt from Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain by Michael S. Gazzaniga. From Cracked, a look at 5 common crime fighting tactics (statistics say don't work) and 6 prison jobs that are probably better than yours.
