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Editor Spotlight: Robert Brooks and Jeffrey Cohen on the Criminology Explains Series and Teaching Criminology
Nov 20 2020
Visit our #ACJS2021 virtual exhibit to get 40% off our criminology and criminal justice books.Series co-editors Robert Brooks and Jeffrey Cohen joined us for an interview on how the Criminology Explains series came about, the newest books in the series, and their advice on how to submit.Robe
American Society of Criminology: New and Notable in Criminology
Nov 19 2020
Criminology Explains Police Violenceby Philip Matthew Stinson SrCriminology Explains Police Violence offers a concise and targeted overview of criminological theory applied to the phenomenon of police violence. In this engaging and accessible book, Philip M. Stinson, Sr. highlights the similarit
ASC 2020: Browse Titles for Your Criminology Courses
Nov 19 2020
Although the American Society of Criminology was cancelled this year, UC Press invites you to explore our groundbreaking books that facilitate teaching across disciplines. To request an exam copy, click on “Request an Exam or Desk Copy” on the book page, and this will take you to our distributor's s
American Society of Criminology: Meet with UC Press Editor Maura Roessner
Nov 17 2020
Our Editors are taking brief Zoom appointments over the next couple of weeks.
How representing victims of domestic violence turned me into a prison abolitionist
Jul 20 2020
by Leigh Goodmark, author of Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner ViolenceIf you had told me 25 years ago that I would eventually call myself a prison abolitionist, I would have called you crazy.In 1995, I was a brand-new lawyer representing victi
Why we need to defund, not defend, the police
Jun 25 2020
By Nikki Jones, author of The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of RedemptionCalls to defund the police often elicit fear. How will I stay safe, wonder people who associate the police with safety. This response ignores the fact for many people, the police are what they fear. When I hear c
The Case for Police Abolition and How I Saw it Coming
Jun 12 2020
By Andrea S. Boyles, author of recent book You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson American and previous book Race, Place, and Suburban Policing: Too Close for ComfortI am Andrea S. Boyles, a Black feminist race scholar, sociologist and critical crimino
In the Pandemic, Releasing People with Violent Crimes is a Public Health Imperative
May 14 2020
Why is the state reluctant to release prisoners who are aging, sick, and more likely to contract a serious disease that will cause more suffering and cost more money?