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Cesraéa Rumpf, author of RECOVERING IDENTITY, writes about criminalized women "rehabilitating" their identities.

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 focusing on survei

By Francine Banner, author of Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of SystemsWhat 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 practicing and

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 stories, Ellis

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, radicalized and read