As the political climate of the United States moves rightward, effective and visionary voices from the left become both rarer and more essential. Here, scholar-activist Joy James provides such a voice. Taking the convergence of race, gender, and class as fundamentals trajectories.

African American scholar-activist Joy James offers a stimulating and iconoclastic account of a world in which the United States functions as the political-police center. Resisting State Violence is a clear-sighted and uncompromising guidebook for those who want to understand the forces that hinder social change, and to effectively move beyond them.

This text recognizes that crimes of the state are far more serious and harmful than crimes committed by individuals, and considers how such crimes may be contested, prevented, challenged or stopped.

What do we do when housing, mental health, disability, prisons and immigration policy become synonymous with state violence?

DIVA collection of writings by prisoners and scholars that documents the extension of the violence and the repression of the prison establishment into the larger society. /div

New ethnographic data leads to insights into the widespread yet understudied phenomenon of criminal extortion in Latin America.