Tag: Incarceration
On 50th anniversary of Attica uprising, 4 essential reads on prisoners’...
Matt Williams, The Conversation
On Sept. 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 incarcerated men at Attica Correctional Facility in New York...
Formerly incarcerated teens share their research and ideas on how to...
Shiv R. Desai, University of New Mexico
“They treat us like animals.”
“I was called a...
Hip-hop professor looks to open doors with world’s first peer-reviewed rap...
A.D. Carson, University of Virginia
As a rap artist who is also a professor of hip-hop, I always make...
Being convicted of a crime has thousands of consequences besides incarceration...
Cynthia A. Golembeski, Rutgers University Newark
At least 77 million U.S. adults have criminal records, including nearly 7 million currently in prison or jail...
American youth don’t know much about the juvenile justice system
Tammy Chang, University of Michigan; Omar Ilyas, University of Michigan, and Vic Wiener, University of Tulsa
Young people in the U.S. who end up in...
23% of young black women now identify as bisexual
Tristan Bridges, University of California, Santa Barbara and Mignon R. Moore, Barnard College
Since 1972, social scientists have studied the General Social Survey to chart...
23% of young black women now identify as bisexual
Tristan Bridges, University of California, Santa Barbara and Mignon R. Moore, Barnard College
Since 1972, social scientists have studied the General Social Survey to chart...
What’s hidden behind the walls of America’s prisons
Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan
Few Americans fully appreciate just how many of their fellow citizens are ensnared in the criminal justice system.
Some...
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Why your brain never runs out of problems to find
David Levari, Harvard University
Why do many problems in life seem to stubbornly stick around, no matter how hard people work to fix them? It...
