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Some thoughts about building community trust of police

July 8, 2016 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Police

A local reporter sent me an email asking my opinion of proposals to increase community trust of police. My “some general comments” turned out to be really long, so I decided to put them in a blog post. Then I edited it a bit more. As I write, this has

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Solitary Confinement

June 23, 2016 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Jail, Solitary confinement

Administrative segregation–solitary confinement–in Wisconsin prisons and the Dane County jail are issues today. Extended periods of solitary confinement (defined as 15 days or more) is considered torture by many human rights conventions, as is any time in solitary confinement for a mentally ill person. US prisons and jails routine use

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Community Control Over Police

June 21, 2016 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice

M Adams and Max Rameau have a forthcoming article titled “Black Community Control Over Police in the Wisconsin Law Review that they were kind enough to let me see in advance of publication. (UPDATE: Publication available here.)  The key argument of the article is that traditional ways of thinking about

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Liberation Capital and Insurgent Intellectual Networks

June 11, 2016 Pamela Oliver Social Movements, Sociology

I have a review of Aldon Morris’s The Scholar Denied coming out in a forum in Contemporary Sociology, but I promised I would not scoop the journal by pre-publishing my essay.* I wrote my essay without reading other reviews, but now that I have read them, I find that although

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Nuisance, Criminal History, and Housing Discrimination

June 10, 2016 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Housing, Social issues

In many cities, one of the sources of homelessness for many people is nuisance ordinances that fine landlords if there are too many police calls to a property. Desmond and Valdez’s 2013 article “Unpolicing the Urban Poor: Consequences of Third-Party Policing for Inner-City Women” published in the American Sociological Review

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