Jackson Smith is a doctoral candidate in American studies at New York University. His dissertation explores the politics of policing and spatial dimensions of urban inequality in Philadelphia through an investigation into the role of money and property in law enforcement strategies.
Jackson Smith
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Why Do Police Drive Cars?
Why did American police end up in cars? And how did policing the nation’s roads become so racially unjust? In Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom, legal historian Sarah Seo uses motor vehicle search and …
Public Thinker: Issa Kohler-Hausmann on Misdemeanors and Mass Incarceration
While most critics of the American criminal justice system condemn mass incarceration, fewer have … [none-for-homepage]
