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By Grace Howard, author of The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting PersonhoodWhen I say that the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses are legal persons, many people may assume I’m talking about the recent opinion that stated embryos created in the cour

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

By Mario Telo, Editorial Board Chair, Classical AntiquityWe are very proud to publish “Fury and Justice in the Humanities” by Judith Butler in the new issue of Classical Antiquity. The boldest and most compelling thinker, the most influential and inspiring public intellectual, someone whose

By Susan Sered, author of Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal ResponsibilityThe following blog is reposted from the author’s ongoing blog about updates from the women of Can’t Catch a Break. These blog posts offer readers and instructors a teaching tool to use wi

Death by Prison is an ambitious overview of the rise of life sentences for American prisoners. In the interview below, author Christopher Seeds explains some of the key insights from the book.Christopher Seeds is Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California