Implicit Bias in the Age of Trump
Vol. 133 No. 7
Introduction I am watching a video of Donald Trump, the forty-fifth President of the United States. He stands before a sea of white people,...
Race and the Law
Perez v. Abbott
Western District of Texas Refuses to Subject State of Texas to Preclearance.
Vol. 133 No. 5
Race, Pregnancy, and the Opioid Epidemic: White Privilege and the Criminalization of Opioid Use During Pregnancy
Vol. 133 No. 3
Common formulations of the concept of white privilege propose that white privilege guarantees white people positive results. So, when bad things happen to white...
Davis v. Guam
Ninth Circuit Holds That Guam's Plebiscite Law Violates Fifteenth Amendment.
Vol. 133 No. 2
Abolition Constitutionalism
Vol. 133 No. 1
Slavery has been fruitful in giving itself names . . . and you and I and all of us had better wait and see what new form...
Abolition as Praxis of Human Being: A Foreword
Vol. 132 No. 6
I. The Long Abolitionist Project What are the historical conditions and political imperatives of “abolition” as a contemporary praxis? How does abolition generate a...
Digitizing the Carceral State
Vol. 132 No. 6
Many life-changing interactions between individuals and state agents in the United States today are determined by a computer-generated score. Government agencies at the local,...
Envisioning Abolition Democracy
Vol. 132 No. 6
What is, so to speak, the object of abolition? Not so much the abolition of prisons but the abolition of a society that could...
The Effects of Holistic Defense on Criminal Justice Outcomes
Vol. 132 No. 3
Debates over mass incarceration emphasize policing, bail, and sentencing reform, but give little attention to indigent defense. This omission seems surprising, given that interactions...
The Paradox of “Progressive Prosecution”
Vol. 132 No. 2
When Freddie Gray woke up on April 12, 2015, he surely did not know that he would soon enter a coma only to die...