An interview with Barbara Dennis

An interview with Michael Kagan

Ayres and Vars put forward creative and practical solutions, proposing legislative reform which will reduce gun deaths....

Brownlee contends that all humans have basic needs for human interaction. Since such needs are fundamental for survival, they should be regarded as a human right....

O. Carter Snead defines for us what the term “public bioethics” encompasses and provides a much-needed genealogy of the field....

One place that might surprise a lot of people is the popularity of performances staged by incarcerated persons...

Campbell explores how a therapy that can stop an accidental drug overdose, called Naloxone, emerged in the American mainstream in the early years of the new millennium...

Herbert examines how the informal reclamation of abandoned property has been shaping Detroit for decades...

Rafalow provides an ethnographic study of students and teachers at three Los Angeles schools utilizing instructional technology...

Bucher analyzes both the barriers and levers to achieving behavioral change...

Randles shares the stories of more than 60 marginalized men as they sought to become more engaged parents through a government-supported “responsible” fatherhood program...

Paterson and Gregory explores a novel methodological approach which combines analytical techniques from linguistics and geography to bring fresh insights to the study of poverty....

Gans' central thesis is that "at their heart, pandemics are an information problem. Solve the information problem and you can defeat the virus”.

Cities are one of the most significant contributors to global climate change...

Guenther takes us inside one of the country's highest-intake animal shelters....

Lindsay Farmer offers a historical and conceptual analysis of theories of criminalization. The book shows how criminalization is inextricably linked to the making of the modern criminal law...

Nadal examines the state of LGBTQ people within the criminal justice system. Intertwining legal cases, academic research, and popular media,..

Mariner offers an ethnography of adoption processes in the United States through the inner workings of a private adoption agency in Chicago, IL...

How do we promote peace in the streets?

The digital age has thrown questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big data centres take over the process of mapping the subjugated and subaltern...

Medical marijuana laws have spread across the U.S. to all but a handful of states. Yet, eighty years of social stigma and federal prohibition creates dilemmas for patients who participate in state programs...

Why are Americans, and American politicians more specifically, obsessed with sex? Why, in the words of Janet Jakobsen, are gender and sexuality such riveting public policy concerns the United States?

Black Americans are by far the most unified racial group in American electoral politics, with 80 to 90 percent identifying as Democrats—a surprising figure given that nearly a third now also identify as ideologically conservative, up from less than 10 percent in the 1970s.

Who truly controls immigration law in the United States?