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We already have the tools to better address human trafficking

July 30th is the UN-recognized World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, while January 11th is the US-recognized National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Both days center on bringing attention and education to the public about the issue of human trafficking. While these days are crucial for shining a spotlight on the problem, the conversation often stops short of deeper insights and solutions. Criminological theories can offer us the foundation and tools to do just that.
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Q&A with Nicole Bedera, author of On the Wrong Side

The debate over campus sexual violence is more heated than ever, but hardly anyone knows what actually happens inside Title IX offices. On the Wrong Side provides the first comprehensive account of the inner workings of the secretive Title IX system. Drawing on a yearlong study of survivors, perpetr
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Q&A with Matthew Morrison, author of Blacksound

Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy (the first original form of American popular music) and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops the concept o
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Feminist Cyberlaw

by Meg Leta Jones (Editor), Amanda Levendowski (Editor)
May 2024
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Scaling Migrant Worker Rights: How Advocates Collaborate and Contest State Power

by Xochitl Bada (Author), Shannon Gleeson (Author)
Jan 2023
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Law as Reproduction and Revolution: An Interconnected History

by Bryant G. Garth (Author), Yves Dezalay (Author)
Sep 2021
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