Crime

Crime

Race, space and punishment in urban sociology

July 2013
Tom Reifer

Structural circumstances of deprivation and criminalization facing African-Americans and the racialized perceptions of criminality appear to be some of the salient features that recently led to a young black teenager being killed by neighborhood watch patrolman George Zimmerman.

After PRISM: on Power, Trust and Accountability

June 2013
Ben Hayes

Multinational corporations who dominate large parts of the internet have provided USA’s National Security Agency with massive amounts of their users’ intimately personal data. This is simply unacceptable in any democracy worthy of the name.

Beyond the Triangle of Emancipation

August 2012
Tom Reifer

In 2009, the song Changes, by Tupac Amaru Shakur, was put on the Pope’s playlist. What is Tupac’s significance, in light of his making the Pope’s playlist and the realities facing African-Americans today in the context of the USA's overpacked prison system, the largest in world history?

The Reassertion of Race, Space and (Punishment’s) Place in Urban Sociology and Critical Criminology

March 2012

 

 

 

TNI marks 35th anniversary of assassination of Orlando Letelier

September 2011
TNI

35 years ago, on 21 September 1976 Orlando Letelier, former TNI Director, was killed by a car bomb in Washington DC. TNI remembers his life.

Torture: Immoral, illegal, counterproductive, and un-American

May 2011
Peter Weiss

Resorting to lawlessness in 'the war against terror' only serves to undermine the very values that made American society strong in the first place.

Justice or Vengeance: lessons from Bin Laden's death

May 2011
Phyllis Bennis

Vengeance may have been wreaked on the infamous Al Qaeda leader, but as long as deadly U.S. wars continue in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and beyond, justice has not been done.

International Seminar “La lucha contra el crimen organizado: hacia una estrategia integral”

April 2011

On 4 and 5 April 2011, Tom Blickman participated in the International
Seminar "La lucha contra el crimen organizado: hacia una estrategia integral” in Mexico City.

Colombia: A successful case for the war on drugs?

January 2011
Ricardo Vargas

Is Colombia's narcotrafficking situation comparable to that of Mexico, including the strategies needed to combat it?

Secrecy, Truth, & the Struggle for Peace & Justice: Reflections on the WikiLeaks Revelations

December 2010
Tom Reifer

The WikiLeaks saga demonstrates that secrecy plus power results in corruption and crime, and that an informed citizenry is essential to prevent our's from becoming a society where civil liberties are a pipe dream and torture is the norm.