https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to criminalization en https://politicalresearch.org/2025/03/12/authoritarianism-criminalization-and-reproductive-injustice In this roundtable discussion, seasoned practitioners who work on the front lines of healthcare, reproductive justice, and criminal law join to share insights drawn from their experiences of navigating repression. Wed, 12 Mar 2025 03:03:44 EDT Annie Wilkinson, Mary Reynolds 02df3bfc-ea84-4c4d-a619-9596c7107ca0 https://politicalresearch.org/2021/12/17/pras-year-books From fighting White Evangelical Racism to searching for A Wider Type of Freedom, here’s what PRA’s been reading in 2021. Fri, 17 Dec 2021 11:01:35 EST Political Research Associates d3df2c73-ad57-497c-b711-679b41ad4f69 https://politicalresearch.org/2021/11/23/anti-sex-work-feminism-and-lived-reality-criminalization-and-state-violence Anti-Sex Work Feminists have a (deadly) listening problem: a problem listening to the people whose lives and livelihoods have been made economically and socially precarious by the state and made subject to daily violence by its carceral arm. Tue, 23 Nov 2021 11:46:09 EST Political Research Associates ee109f69-8dce-4ce5-a146-ec4cc418c0f4 https://politicalresearch.org/2018/08/13/blurring-border The growth of immigration enforcement further north has led many within the immigrant and refugee communities to feel that they, too, live on the border. Mon, 13 Aug 2018 03:46:35 EDT Austin Kocher 9520914c-d75f-45ea-949c-f203a6dea04d https://politicalresearch.org/2018/08/13/beyond-strange-bedfellows The prevailing narrative about “human trafficking” was shaped by a relatively small group of political influencers on the Right who had dreams of organizing Christian activists around winnable social issues. Mon, 13 Aug 2018 03:37:10 EDT Melissa Gira Grant 863ea316-7661-4b4a-a046-ae47a9819df5 https://politicalresearch.org/2018/05/24/immigrant-justice-and-right-wings-eliminationist-agenda Hamid Khan, a coordinator with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition—as well as a Political Research Associates board member—has long been active in the immigrants’ rights debate, having immigrated to the United States from Pakistan in 1979. As a board member of Thu, 24 May 2018 12:12:27 EDT Political Research Associates a6cb8ea9-fab0-40cb-bf58-c0600b105c86 https://politicalresearch.org/2017/08/17/captive-audience As bipartisan reform efforts have steadily drifted rightward, the heavy hand of evangelicals in prison reform efforts has created new kinds of problems. Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:30:15 EDT Tanya Erzen 3ab682e1-acef-480d-934d-341442abc680 https://politicalresearch.org/2017/06/14/californias-prop-47-savings-context On June 8, 2017, the California Board of State and Community Corrections announced the reallocation of $103 million in savings resulting from the passage of 2014’s Proposition 47 criminal justice sentencing reforms. Wed, 14 Jun 2017 11:57:19 EDT Kay Whitlock 79e6d574-6a76-49f1-b026-c6cb32c40019 https://politicalresearch.org/2017/06/06/endgame More than an actual means of improving policy, “bipartisan criminal justice reform” has become a mantra signifying hope. But what, exactly, are bipartisan advocates seeking to reform? Tue, 06 Jun 2017 09:31:55 EDT Kay Whitlock 90ddf6fe-5281-4ccd-9161-680f4fe0f758 https://politicalresearch.org/2016/07/06/black-lives-over-broken-windows Broken windows policing is not only all too often lethal, it also contributes to the use of excessive and illegal force in the context of the most mundane police encounters. Wed, 06 Jul 2016 12:10:09 EDT Andrea J. Ritchie 83a68952-e7fa-44d5-99d1-5b72759efad9 https://politicalresearch.org/2016/06/07/tracking-blackness-qa-dark-matters-author-simone-browne Simone Browne, an associate professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, describes her new book, Dark Matters: On The Surveillance of Blackness, as a conversation between Black Studies and Surveillance Studies—the latter a young discipline devoted to investigating the technological and social dimensions of surveillance. Tue, 07 Jun 2016 12:16:53 EDT Lindsay Beyerstein 4f8a1958-dad5-4001-89d5-75ae584215f8 https://politicalresearch.org/2016/02/09/crime-control-political-repression American political time is often rhetorically divided into before and after the attacks of September 11, 2001. But this distinction both romanticizes the past and obscures some of the institutional architecture underlying the War on Terror. Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:45:28 EST Naomi Braine 11edf832-2d17-480e-b3ff-a6f411f052cd https://politicalresearch.org/2016/02/02/35-years-demonization Between 1990 and 2000, the number of people in U.S. prisons and jails increased from 292 per 100,000 to 481 per 100,000. But the number of women in prison rose even more sharply, doubling over the ten-year period. Tue, 02 Feb 2016 01:02:51 EST Victoria Law 7a824e61-a472-453e-b1b3-11514f97e9c8