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War:  The Ultimate Crime (1/22/04)

Troubles in the CYA Nothing New (2/10/04)

Zero Tolerance Run Amok (2/29/04)

Three Strikes Goes Down Looking (3/8/04)

Drug War Update (3/20/04)

Another Casualty in the War on Drugs (3/22/04)

Who Are the Real Drug Traffickers? (3/24/04)

Another Victim Of The War On Terrorism (4/29/04)

Haiti: Another Example of "State Crime" (4/21/04)

Criminal Justice Reforms In Brazil (5/2/04)

Give Peace a Chance (5/04/04)

The Let's Kick Ass and Take Names Mentality (5/12/04)

Connecting the Dots (5/16/04)

The Globalization of Social Control (5/28/04)

Surprise, Surprise, County Jail Filled to Capacity (6/11/04)

Trafficking in Prisoners: Forerunners of the Modern Prison Industrial Complex (6/29/04)

Guest Commentary: Conditioned Stupid (7/3/04)

Drug War Update II (7/10/04)

Above the Law (8/9/04)

Conservatives Don't Get It (8/29/04)

Let Them Eat Dog Food
(8/30/04)

How Many Deaths will it Take (9/8/04)

Republican States Tough on Crime, but Soft on Results  (9/21/04)

Punishment, American Style (9/28/04)

Three Strikes Works?(9/28/04)

Colliding Worldviews (10/25/04)

Four More Years (11/4/04)


Random Thoughts on a Rainy Day
(11/7/04)

The Peterson Case (11/16/04)

No Closure (12/7/04)

Iraq, Inc. (12/11/04)

Republicans and the Battered Woman Syndrome (12/16/04)

End of the Year Drug War Update (12/26/04)

What is a “Crime” and Who is a “Criminal”? (12/28/04)

Special Commentary: Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1/17/05)

Same War, Different Day (1/21/05)

The illegals are coming, the illegals are coming! (2/7/05)

Random Thoughts on a Rainy Day, Part II (2/12/05)

Nevada’s Prison Woes: Same Story, Different Day (2/25/05)

Martha’s Free, But What About the Others? (3/4/05)

Guest Commentary: Nancy DisGrace and CNN News
(3/14/05)

We’re the Tough Guys, Part I
(3/27/05)

Clark County Jail is Overcrowded: Déjà vu (4/10/05)

Guest Commentary:
Slavery By Any Other Name
(4/20/05)

He’s a ‘Good Kid’ (4/21/05)

Visit to Coroner’s Office is Old Wine in New Bottles (4/23/05)

Jails and prisons overflowing: staggering (5/5/05)

Handcuffing a Five-Year Old: What’s Next, Two-Year Olds? (5/5/05)

Where’s the Outrage? (5/31/05)

Beware of the “Pregnancy Police”
(6/1/05)

Drug War Update: The Renee Boje Case and Others Forms of Insanity (6/24/05)

Habitual Criminals in High Places (6/29/05)

Why Does the South Execute the Most? (7/18/05)

Collapse (8/13/05)

Religion and Crime Policies (8/26/05)

Nevada Pot Policy a Bust
(8/26/05)

Race and Class Matters: the Case of Katrina
(9/3/05)

What is a “Serious Crime”? (9/17/05)

Judge Judy for Supreme Court Justice
(10/6/05)

2,000 and Counting: The Crime Continues
(10/27/05)

End of Year Drug War Update(12/9/05)

Did Killing Williams Make a Difference? (12/13/05)

War in Iraq is a Costly Crime (1/20/06)

Drugs, Alcohol and Crime (2/26/06)

Women’s prisons are overcrowded: surprise, surprise
(3/7/06)

More Random Thoughts on a Rainy Day (3/29/06)

Drug War Myths (4/14/06)

The Myth of the “new” Violent Girl (5/30/06)

How the Drug War Targets Women (7/14/06)

Meth scare and prison (8/3/06)

Cashing in on “Border Security” (8/28/06)

Support Question 7 (9/15/06)

Cracking Down on Sex Offenders (9/22/06)

Getting Smart instead of Getting Tough (2/8/07)

The Biggest Crime of All (1/21/07)

An Infamous Anniversary (11/15/06)

Notes of a Frustrated Academic (11/29/06)

Random Thoughts on a Hot Summer Day (8/19/07)

Arming Faculty is Nonsense (7/21/07)

The Return of the Chain Gang (7/12/07)

What is a Crime? 6/21/07)

Ignoring Prostitution: Human Trafficking and Nevada  (5/18/07)

Swimming Upstream (3/3/07)

Taboo subjects in the primaries (2/4/08)

Updating the Drug War (12/17/07)

Denying that Racism Exists (11/30/07)

Providing a Balance – the Conservative View of Crime and Criminal Justice (11/1/07)

A punishing god (9/17/07)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Resurrecting Radical Non-intervention (3/1/04)

Assessing "Broken Windows" Theory (3/29/04)

Why Are We So Punitive? (3/10/04)

It's More Profitable To Treat The Disease Than To Prevent It (4/15/04)

The New American Apartheid (6/18/04)

Making Profit out of Human Misery (8/22/04)

Family & Delinquency (1/3/05)
The Failure of Youth Prisons
 (1/4/05)

What Does the Criminal Justice System Look Like? A Critical Examination (1/17/05)

The Waiver of Juveniles to Criminal Court: Judicial Discretion and Racial Disparity

Juveniles and the Death Penalty (3/1/05)

Contrasting Schools of Thought in Criminology (3/8/05)

Controlling the Dangerous Classes: The Case of Immigrants and the Criminal Justice System in the United States (4/15/06)

Racial Disparities and the Drug War (12/9/05)

Slavery in the Third Millennium (5/17/05)

From Houses of Refuge to ‘Youth Corrections’: Same Story, Different Day
(4/26/05)