Deanza Cook News Today

Cabot House book club wrestles with complex issue of prison abolition through discussions and “Reading Jam Sessions.”

"The Mass Criminalization of Black Americans: A Historical Overview" The title of this post is the title of this article that is soon to be published in an issue of the Annual Review of Criminology and is authored by Elizabeth Hinton and DeAnza Cook. Here is its abstract: This review synthesizes the historical literature on the criminalization and incarceration of black Americans for an interdisciplinary audience.  Drawing on key insights from new histories in the field of American carceral s...