Governing Through Crime
News about security measures, crime, sentencing and prisons (with a particular focus on California), and thoughts about crime's powerful impact on political strategies and how governments spend the taxpayers' money.
Author: Jonathan Simon is associate dean for jurisprudence and social policy at the University of California at Berkeley's Boalt Hall and also authors Berkeley Jurispride.
Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • Sentencing/Post Conviction • States • California • University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall • Law Professor
Recent Posts from Governing Through Crime
- Update from the Penal State: Court keeps the pressure on
- California Inmates Seek Contempt Order Against Governor Schwarzenegger
- Workplace Violence? Making Sense of Annie Le's Murder
- My Daughter Does Walk to School
- Prison Reform Lite: With Fiscal and Constitutional Alarms Ringing, Cal Legislature Hits the Snooze Button
- A Truly Radical Idea: Van Jones and the Greening of Criminal Justice
- The Fear Lobby Puts the Brake on Prison Reform in Sacramento
- Garrido, Parole, and the Criminological Fallacy
- Can More Cops Equal Less Prisons?
- Is Mass Incarceration the New SUV