Almost every time I visit Brooklyn, I stop by the same small wine shop and buy a bottle of wine. It has a great selection; it’s convenient to where I stay; the prices are reasonable; and the staff is knowledgeable. I’ve always been happy with the wines they recommend. Last week, after buying a bottle, […]

Police scanned Flock cameras in a single town in Illinois more than 1,200 times to investigate cases of loitering.

In the segregated American South, policing was war. Ungovernable police discretion came to the backroads and cattle pastures of America's rural countryside ...

The Department of Sociology at Texas State University (San Marcos, TX) invites applications for a full-time lecturer position beginning fall 2027. The university has a teaching track that includes pro...

Search Amazon using the term street culture, and you’ll find countless books about gangs, graffiti, street art, policing, homelessness, drug markets, skateboarding, street fashion, or urban crime, but...

In Senatobia, Mississippi, where police killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley, community members had urged leaders to rein in the police. Are they listening now?

Students will learn that life circumstances are beyond their power to change. They will learn that their place in the economy and larger society should not be questioned.

During the late 1970s, I got my start driving cab for Beck Taxi in Toronto. Their business at the time was disproportionately located in the east end, above and below the Danforth. We got calls from t...

An 84-page complaint offers a glimpse into how the system’s curricular-review process has operated behind closed doors.

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The highest payout came this week, when a fired University of Tennessee anthropology professor agreed to a $1.9-million settlement.

Although textbooks, journal articles, and lectures are important, movies are one of the most effective teaching tools available to criminology and criminal justice instructors. They can communicate id...

A law enforcement document obtained by The Intercept shows police scan social media looking for posts opposing AI data centers.

Unlike some other social sciences, criminology and criminal justice consistently produce job openings. But not all positions are created equal, and where you land can affect your career and your menta...

TXST-AAUP Calls for New Spirit of Leadership (San Marcos, TX – May 8, 2026) During a three-day celebration from May 14-16, 2026, Texas State University will hold eight commencement ceremonies to ho…

There’s a big gap between what the general public thinks criminologists do and what we actually do. Most people assume we work in forensics, consult on detective cases, or spend our days profiling ser...

The armed and masked off-duty Phoenix, Arizona, cop said he wanted to get kids at a high school ICE protest arrested.

An ICE summons to get the user’s identity failed. Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent.

The Texas State University Police Department initiated a campus program, hiring students to monitor around 900 cameras on the San Marcos and Round Rock campuses. “Project Overwatch” will hire students to the UPD dispatch center to observe cameras for the full duration of their shift. Student workers will be on the lookout for incidents so...

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If you’re traveling through an airport, follow these digital security practices to keep CBP or ICE from getting into your phone.

As debt mounts and police violence on campuses goes unanswered, Senegal’s government is targeting its queer citizens.

The fight against police brutality and impunity is a global struggle. This book argues that police reform efforts around the world should be extirpated and replaced with locally developed and led non-...

This past week, I rescued my favorite reusable shopping bag from our own trash bin. My wife had thrown it away. This wasn’t because it was splitting at the seams; I only noticed that after I rescued i...

String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

Periodically, academics seek and are given the title of visiting scholar. The designation sounds formal and flattering, and for many people it carries a great deal of symbolic weight. But there is con...

Mobile Fortify tech being used to scan faces of citizens and immigrants – but its use has prompted a severe backlash

Since Columbine, expectations for cops have been clear. But reality often hasn’t measured up.

This past weekend, I saw The Honey Trap. The play centers on a former British soldier who lost a close friend during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Years later, while participating in an oral histo...

The COVID pandemic accelerated the adoption of different classroom modalities. One of the most popular was the rise of asynchronous classes. They offered flexibility, reduced commuting, and made it ea...

Community supporters joined members of Decrim 305 to call on the state of Florida to eliminate criminal penalties tied to sex work. It was held in advance of the International Day to End Violence Agai...