As the urban poor are displaced to metropolitan peripheries, policing and punishment have become more suburban.
Emma Shaw Crane
Emma Shaw Crane is a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows at Columbia University, where she is affiliated with the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the Department of Anthropology. 
A City Plans for War
What if war was waged not with bombs but with blueprints? Urban planning’s promise of an improved city of the future is especially bright in postconflict cities, where planning is expected to bring ...
No Peace for Refugees
This past June, the Supreme Court temporarily reinstated a version of President Trump’s ban on travelers from six Muslim-majority countries. The “Muslim ban” made good on Trump’s campaign promise to ...
Life After Wartime
Fisher House looks like any other suburban American home: a well-manicured lawn; a kitchen stocked with Girl Scout cookies, Maseca, and ice cream; a living room with a flat-screen TV and children’s ...