Skip to main content
University of California Press

Criminology & Criminal Justice

From Our Blog

Visit Our Blog

What LA’s Antelope Valley Teaches Us about Fighting for Just Cities

Today, there's a broad understanding that American cities are operating in unsustainable ways. How does this untenable model persist? As author Rahim Kurwa explains, it has to do with offloading crises to cities' peripheries.
Read More

Help Us Grow Our FirstGen Program!

UC Press has great news to share about FirstGen program growth and seeks your support for its continued success. Here’s how our program has benefitted first-gen authors so far.
Read More

Prisons are Still Making COVID-19 Era Mistakes

Unless considerable prisons reforms are made now—like an aggressive 50% reduction in prison population—the next epidemic will provoke calamities similar to COVID-19.
Read More

Open Access Titles

See All

Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration

by Matthew D.C. Larsen (Author), Mark Letteney (Author)
Aug 2025
Open Access
Open Access

Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation

by Abigail Leslie Andrews (Author)
Jul 2024
Open Access
Open Access
Open Access