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Punishment politics and mass incarceration

Thom Brooks (Durham): Criminal Harms. Stuart P. Green (Rutgers): Vice Crimes and Preventive Justice. Niccolo Leo Caldararo (SFSU): Human Sacrifice, Capital Punishment, Prisons and Justice: A Comparative Study. Vernon Thomas Sarver Jr. (South Florida): Abolition of the Death Penalty in the United States: An Untested Argument. Isaac Unah and Elizabeth Coggins (UNC): When Governors Speak Up for Justice: Punishment Politics and Mass Incarceration in the American States. Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia Hernandez reviews Social Control and Justice: Crimmigration in the Age of Fear. Nicole Flatow on how slashing racist crack sentences has already saved 16K prison years and half a billion dollars. America's most prolific jailhouse lawyer and his many fans: Behind bars, Jonathan Lee Riches was offline — he still became an Internet celebrity. Emma Smith reviews The Subject of Murder: Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer by Lisa Downing. Are we born to be bad? The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime by Adrian Raine explores the link between biology and breaking the law (and more). Marc Bookman on the confessions of innocent men: Why would two suspects caught up in a grisly murder investigation admit to a killing they didn't commit? John Marshall on US murder rates, humility and history. Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas on 11 facts about America’s prison population.