PhD Candidate Mao Lee is a recipient of the P.E.O. Scholar Award.

In the latest episode, Perry is joined by sociologist Michelle Phelps to trace how Minneapolis’s 2020 protests built the networks that powered this year’s resistance to ICE.

Christopher Uggen, a sociology professor at the University of Minnesota, explains some of the causes of vigilantism and what it looks like today.

A searing, historically rich account of how US policing and punishment have been retrofitted over the last four decades to extract public and private revenues from America’s poorest and most vulnerabl...

A special congratulations to Amirthini Keefe and José Antonio Zayas Cabán, two CLA alumni who were named 2026 Bush Fellows.

Inquest staff recommendations of not-to-be-missed decarceral books from 2025.

From international disdain for the U.S., to price gouging, to backlash over FIFA awarding Trump a "FIFA Peace Prize," the buildup to Thursday’s opening match seems tepid, columnist John Rash writes.

UFC Freedom 250 is backed by companies and executives with deep political footprints who have spent millions on political influence.

Law and Society Association congratulates its 2026 Annual Awards winners. LSA honors leading international scholars for their groundbreaking publications and contributions.

"Downtown last night was so alive... and people were just so excited. It was fabulous, we really needed this."

This award, given out by the Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal, recognizes young business leaders for their professional accomplishments and community involvement.

One in five young parenting students face eviction each year. New Eviction Lab data show enrollment offers far less protection than it should.

Sociology graduate student Leo Corral has been awarded a 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship at the U.S. National Science Foundation.

The new research is the first to measure community water fluoridation exposure during childhood and any potential impact on cognition up to age 80.

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A new study says the early U.S. COVID-19 death toll is much higher than official counts, and that there were disparities in which deaths were missing from those tallies.

Congratulations to Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, CLA's 2026 Dean's Medalist!

The Trump administration is accusing protesters of ‘domestic terrorism’ but this brazen tactic is as old as the country itself

À Minneapolis, où deux manifestants ont été tués, la population, « armée » de simples téléphones portables pour filmer et de sifflets pour alerter, continue de protester contre la police de l’immigrat...

"With world turmoil upending geopolitics, the streets of Minneapolis and points beyond and between, the Olympics may seem irrelevant or indulgent. They’re neither," columnist John Rash writes.

Police Chief Brian O’Hara says his department wants to keep ICE tensions from boiling over and rebuild relationships lost in the George Floyd upheaval.

At every step of the process in which communities are policed and punished, states, localities and other public entities benefit financially, along with their partners in the private sectors. Scholars...

Join leading scholars, journalists, and community voices for panel discussions exploring how liberal arts expertise shapes our understanding of today’s pressing civic issues.

Mysterious federal agents zipping around the Twin Cities and bending the local norms of policing are creating confusion.

From George Floyd to Renee Good, the city has become all too familiar with killings by law enforcement—and it knows exactly how to respond.

Graduate student Xiaowen Han studies how wages and meaningful work accumulate across careers, shaping long-term health and increasing inequality.

Meet Assistant Professor Ed Cornelius. He teaches about his passion, the sociology of law and punishment while researching the legal system of his home country, Brazil.

Laura Garbes examines how public radio’s history and practices privileged white voices and explores efforts to expand who gets heard on the air.

US mortality has long been considered exceptional. Since the mid-1980s, mortality in the US has been higher than in other wealthy nations, and over the last 15 years, that disadvantage has grown.1,2 M...

Prosecutorial-NGO Complex: new legal opportunity structures and the role of (I)NGOs in universal jurisdiction trials on Syria

In today’s episode of Guns Unpacked, we welcome Dr. Michelle Phelps, an associate professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Phelps is an expert on probation, criminal justice reform, and ...

"Ironically, any elitism that Republicans charge public radio with is a result of their own attacks on the system," Laura Garbes writes.

Abstract. Using 18 months of immersive ethnographic fieldwork in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, this paper highlights how religious congregations made se

Producer Gretchen Brown talked with University of Minnesota Sociology Professor Michelle Phelps to try to make sense of the gap in crime perception versus reality.