This is the first book of a series on criminalization - examining the principles and goals that should guide what kinds of conduct are to be criminalized, and t

Based on five years of ethnography, archival research, census data analysis, and interviews, Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries reveals how

A vital collection for reforming criminal justice After five decades of punitive expansion, the entire U.S. criminal justice system— mass incarceration, the W

A comparative and collaborative study of the foundational principles and concepts that underpin different domestic systems of criminal law.

Since the 1960s, recurring cycles of political activism over youth crime have motivated efforts to remove adolescents from the juvenile court. Periodic surges o