by Cesraéa Rumpf, author of Recovering Identity: Criminalized Women’s Fight for Dignity and Freedom
When I began my research with formerly incarcerated women in Chicago, I expected to hear a lot of hard stories. Based on the existing research, my past direct service work in domestic vi...
Stories of teen sexting scandals, cyberbullying, and image-based sexual abuse have become commonplace fixtures of the digital age, with many adults struggling to identify ways to monitor young people’s digital engagement. In When Rape Goes Viral, Anna Gjika argues that rather than focusin...
By Francine Banner, author of Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems
What does it mean to be complicit?
This question is at the heart of my book, Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems.
My interest in the topic stems from years of pra...
In This Place Called Prison offers a vivid account of religious life within an institution designed to punish. Rachel Ellis conducted a year of ethnographic fieldwork inside a U.S. state women’s prison, talking with hundreds of incarcerated women, staff, and volunteers. Through their s...
By SpearIt, author of Muslim Prisoner Litigation: An Unsung American Tradition
“Prison jihad” is a real thing happening in American prisons across the country. While this idea might conjure up all sorts of stereotypical imagery — including bearded, turbaned, militant Muslims, radicaliz...