Communities of color in Chicago are building powerful social movements and inspiring transformative justice projects to resist criminalization, deportation, and surveillance by the Chicago police, federal immigration authorities, and national security agencies. This…
Dr. Beth Richie will be presenting at the Detroit Justice Center’s “Square One Project” on October 11th at 11am (ET). The event will be moderated by Jeremy Travis, former NIJ Director and past president…
Dr. Susila Gurusami has won the 2019 SSSP (Society for the Study of Social Problems) Arlene Kaplan Daniels Paper Award. The award is made in recognition of a paper that addresses contemporary issues of women’s justice…
“When University of Illinois at Chicago professor Dave Stovall heard about the NFL making a donation to a Chicago nonprofit that helps young boys in Englewood, he had his reservations. As a professor of African…
During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prison forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. All Our Trials explores the work of these activists who placed criminalized women,…
The WorldPost, a media platform partnership between the Berggruen Institute and The Washington Post, published an op-ed co-authored by Enda Erez, UIC professor of criminology, law and justice, and Peter Ibarra, UIC associate…
Drs. Edna Erez and Peter Ibarra have been featured in an online article on The Washington Post titled “Does surveilling alleged domestic abusers violate their rights?” Read the full article here.
Join the Social Justice Initiative, Witness for Peace, and La Voz de los de Abajo with Gaspar Sanchez in a panel discussion about the importance of land in local and global struggles against racism, sexist violence, colonialism, and displacement.
Following the publication of Andrea Ritchie's Invisible No More, join Chicago activists and UIC faculty and community activists working at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, policing, and criminalization for a dialogue about police...
