1 - Blood Groove & Kikis - Sands Of Time (Nugsupreme Remix) [Spring Tube Limited] 2 - Nikola Jovanovic - Amnesia (Hernan Serrao Remix) [BC2 Records] 3 - Blue Cell - Backboard Funktioniert Nicht (Original Mix) [Eternal Beats] 4 - VegaZ SL & PatriZe - Loops in Life (Original Mix) [White Label] 5 - Ayanth - Varanasi (Original Mix) [Future Avenue] 6 - …

In Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics (Duke UP, 2024), Jess Whatcott traces the link between US disability institutions and early twentieth-century eugenicist ideology, demonstrating how the legacy of those ideas continues to shape incarceration and detention today. Whatcott focuses on California, examining re…

The police officer who brutalized Abner Louima. A purveyor of child pornography. These are some of the defendants to have come before U.S. District Court Judge Frederic Block to ask for reductions in their prison sentences. All of them have been found guilty and have already served decades in prison, but under the 2018 First Step Act they are entit…

When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations are vested with human rights, and government agencies and corporations use computers to monitor our private lives. In The American Surveillance State: How the US Spies on Dissent (Pluto Press, 2022), D…

Chicago is a city with extreme concentrations of racialized poverty and inequity, one that relies on an extensive network of repressive agencies to police the poor and suppress struggles for social justice. Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) examines the role of local law enforcement, federa…

1 - Navar - Heliopause (Extended Mix) [meanwhile] 2 - Mariano Malvica - Mistery (Fer Mora Remix) [South America Avenue] 3 - Borshulyak - Lora (Dio S Remix) [Massive Harmony Records] 4 - Kasey Taylor & Karl Pilbrow - Alluvium (Original Mix) [Vapour Recordings] 5 - Marcos Calegari & Facu Bausset - Crossing Lines (Original Mix) [Future Avenue] 6 - Aro…

In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended in the North, a village in New York State invented a new form of unfreedom: the profit-driven prison. Uniting incarceration and capitalism, the village of Auburn built a prison that enclosed industrial factories. There, "slaves of the state" were leased to private companies. The prisoners …

1 - Phillosopher - Zen's House (Original Mix) [Future Avenue] 2 - M.SON - I Am Here (Original Mix) [Future Avenue] 3 - Around Us - Delayed Mood (Original Mix) [Magnitude Recordings] 4 - Around Us - In My Mind (Original Mix) [Manual Music] 5 - Nikola Jovanovic - Amnesia (IGCIØ Remix) [BC2 Records] 6 - Mike Griego - Angel Stab (Original Mix) [meanwhi…

Over two million Americans are currently in prison or jail. Another 4.5 million are on probation or parole. And nearly one in two Americans have a family member who is or has been incarcerated. Writing for those new to activism as well as seasoned organizers, celebrated criminal justice activist Raj Jayadev introduces readers to the groundbreaking …

In our pursuit of efficiency in the lower criminal courts, have we lost sight of quality justice? Through the critical examination of original stenographic data, Over-Efficiency in the Lower Criminal Courts: Understanding a Key Problem and How to Fix it (Policy Press, 2024) by Dr. Shaun Yates demonstrates how an English Magistrates' courthouse ofte…

This June 2020 episode, originally part of a Global Policing series, was Recall this Book's first exploration of police brutality, systemic and personal racism and Black Lives Matter. Elizabeth and John were lucky to be joined by Daniel Kryder and David Cunningham, two scholars who have worked on these questions for decades. Many of the mechanisms …

Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) by Dr. Heather Murray is a cultural and intellectual history of people with mental illnesses in the twentieth-century United States. While acknowledging the fraught, and often violent, histories of American psychiatric hospitals, Heath…

1 - Rodrigo Pochelu - Lost In The Forest (Original Mix) [RYNTH] 2 - Federico Barga & Andrés Moris - Blurred Lines (Original Mix) [Balkan Connection SA] 3 - ODAX - The Infinite Journey (Original Mix) [Future Avenue] 4 - Kay-D - Phoebe (Soulmade (AR) Remix) [BC2 Records] 5 - Mike Griego - I Only Really Care About Music (Original Mix) [meanwhile] 6 - …

Anne Gray Fischer speaks about her path to and through research, including how sex workers informed her analysis of policing and state violence, the role of law enforcement in struggles over economic development, and the intellectual and practical factors of research design. Men, especially Black men, often stand in as the ultimate symbol of the ma…

1 - Sun Progress - Stratosphere (Original Mix) [Future Avenue] 2 - Peter Close - Sundogs (Home Shell Remix) [OLD SQL Recordings] 3 - Mike Griego - Placebo (Original Mix) [meanwhile] 4 - Kasey Taylor & Karl Pilbrow - Sonorous (Original Mix) [Vapour Recordings] 5 - Leandro Murua & Evegrem - Stardust (Original Mix) [Yomo Records] 6 - Kostya Outta - Ch…

Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb (Reaktion, 2024) by Dr. Mitchel P. Roth and Dr. Mahmut Cengiz unfolds the gripping history of weaponized mail, offering the first ever comprehensive exploration of this sinister phenomenon. Spanning two centuries, the book unveils the history of postal bombs, describing the evolution of both explo…

LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED: The topic of today’s episode is human trafficking and crimes against children, usually sexual crimes, and sometimes ritual abuse and organ harvesting. Matt Osborne has worked with OUR Rescue (originally Operation Underground Railroad) for ten years; he left his CIA career to join this NGO and is now one of the longes…

Jessica Henry's Smoke But No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened (U California Press, 2021) explores a shocking but all-too-common kind of wrongful conviction: wrongful convictions for crimes that never actually happened. Henry's meticulously-researched book sheds light on how the US criminal justice system makes it possible…

Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path—cooperation democracy. From consumer co-ops to credit unions, worker cooperatives to insurance mutuals, nonprofits to mutual aid, countless examples prove that people working together can extend the ideals of …

The U.S. government's decades-long "war on drugs" is increasingly recognized as a moral travesty as well as a policy failure. The criminalization of substances such as marijuana and magic mushrooms offends core tenets of liberalism, from the right to self-rule to protection of privacy to freedom of religion. It contributes to mass incarceration and…

1 - Alchemyst (UY) - Synchrony Love Freedom (Original Mix) [RYNTH] 2 - Rikk Earth - Never Fall (Extended Mix) [Stellar Fountain] 3 - Kostya Outta - Chasing Highs (Gav Easby Remix) [inU] 4 - Blood Groove & Kikis - Sands Of Time (Kuipermusik Remix) [Spring Tube Limited] 5 - Tonelab - Colour Blind (Agustin Pengov Remix) [3rd Avenue] 6 - Around Us - Ab…

1 - Blood Groove & Kikis - Sands Of Time (Original Mix) [Spring Tube Limited] 2 - Jonatan Ramonda & Matias Carafa - Lunar Module (Original Mix) [Balkan Connection SA] 3 - Tonelab - Lipstick Gully (Original Mix) [3rd Avenue] 4 - SLIDER (SL) - Rhyme Waves (M3SIA Remix) [Ekabeat Music] 5 - Platon (RU) - Ag 47 (Astral Base & Elazar Remix) [SLC-6 Music]…

For over thirty years, modern Italy was plagued by ransom kidnappings perpetrated by bandits and organised crime syndicates. Nearly 700 men, women, and children were abducted from across the country between the late 1960s and the late 1990s, held hostage by members of the Sardinian banditry, Cosa Nostra, and the ’Ndrangheta. Subjected to harsh capt…

Today’s book is: Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit (U Chicago Press, 2024), by Dr. Robin Bernstein, which tells the story of a teenager named William Freeman. Convicted of a horse theft he insisted he did not commit, he was sentenced to five years of hard labor in Auburn’s new prison. Uniting incarcerat…

1 - Alchemyst (UY) - Pluto In Aquarius (Original Mix) [RYNTH] 2 - Blex (AR) - Sueños (Original Mix) [Dreamers] 3 - Yahra - Keeping the Dream Alive (Original Mix) [Movement Limited] 4 - Alchemyst (UY) - Synchrony Love Freedom (Ghume Remix) [RYNTH] 5 - Facundo Navarro & Santiago Sturla - Bareena (Original Mix) [The Purr] 6 - SLIDER (SL) - Rhyme Waves…

Throughout US history, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have been pathologized, victimized, and criminalized. Reports of lynching, burning, or murdering of LGBTQ people have been documented for centuries. Prior to the 1970s, LGBTQ people were deemed as having psychological disorders and subsequently subject to electrosh…

In recent years, a searching national conversation has called attention to the social and racial injustices that define America’s criminal system. The incarceration of vast numbers of people, and the punitive treatment of African Americans in particular, are targets of widespread criticism. But despite the election of progressive prosecutors in sev…

1 - Platon (RU) - Ag 47 (Gleb Rubens Remix) [SLC-6 Music] 2 - Christian Maestre & Cristobal (AR) - Synergy (Original Mix) [Future Avenue] 3 - Tonelab - Lipstick Gully (Cielo (US) Remix) [3rd Avenue] 4 - Rikk Earth - Never Fall (Alberto Hernandez (MX) Extended Remix) 5 - Yahra - Inner Side (Original Mix) [Stellar Fountain] 6 - Antix - Peace of My'nd…

In Law and Personality Disorder: Human Rights, Human Risks, and Rehabilitation (Oxford UP, 2024), Dr Ailbhe O'Loughlin considers the controversial and under-researched concern of what to do with dangerous people with severe personality disorders. She brings together scientific evidence, law and policy, to consider risk prevention, public security a…

1 - Rikk Earth - Never Fall (Marley Hughes Extended Remix) [Stellar Fountain] 2 - Disto (SL) - Days (Original Mix) [Deep Down Music] 3 - GMJ - Ebb & Flow (Original Mix) [meanwhile Horizons] 4 - Hernan Cerbello - Back to City (Kasey Taylor & Karl Pilbrow Remix) [Vapour Recordings] 5 - Svenj (ESP) - Return From Antares (Original Mix) [Buddhabrot] 6 -…

In recent years, dozens of counties in North Carolina have partnered with federal law enforcement in the criminalization of immigration--what many have dubbed "crimmigration." Southern border enforcement still monopolizes the national immigration debate, but immigration enforcement has become common within the United States as well. While Immigrati…

1 - Narik - Liquid Thoughts (Propellar Remix) [languages music] 2 - David Podhel - Dreams Come True (Original Mix) [Dopamine White] 3 - Bagsol - Hastío (Original Mix) [Dreamers] 4 - Svenj (ESP) - Violet (Original Mix) [Buddhabrot] 5 - Audiofive - Seize The Moment (Original Mix) [Deep Down Music] 6 - Facundo Navarro, Santiago Sturla & Flor Galzadet …

Is involuntary psychiatric treatment the solution to the intertwined crises of untreated mental illness, homelessness, and addiction? In recent years, politicians and advocates have sought to expand the use of conservatorships, a legal tool used to force someone deemed “gravely disabled,” or unable to meet their needs for food, clothing, or shelter…

1 - Nicolas Soria - Last Forever (Original Mix) [Dreamers] 2 - Matter - Elsewhere (Original Mix) [meanwhile] 3 - Niceshot - Catching Clouds (Original Mix) [Starlight Music Group] 4 - Leah Marie - Circadian (Original Mix) [Late Night Music] 5 - Kostya Outta - Storm Shine (Pedräda Remix) [Transensations Records] 6 - Narik - Liquid Thoughts (Original …

1 - Redemption Sound - Nebula Quasar (Original Mix) [La Foresta Recordings] 2 - Dylan Deck - Salvation (Original Mix) [BC2 Records] 3 - Matt Oliver - Collision (The Wash Remix) [RKP] 4 - PASINDU - Zahra (Mazayr Remix) [One Of A Kind] 5 - Matter - Embrace (Original Mix) [meanwhile] 6 - D-Nox & DJ Zombi - There Is Hope (Maxxim Remix) [Beat Boutique] …

In Do I Know You? From Faceblindness to Super Recognition (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023), Dr. Sharrona Pearl explores the fascinating category of face recognition and the "the face recognition spectrum," which ranges from face blindness at one end to super recognition at the other. Super recognizers can recall faces from only the briefest e…

Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood (Cambridge University Press, 2020) a brilliant but shocking account of the criminalization of all aspects of reproduction, pregnancy, abortion, birth, and motherhood in the United States. In her extensively researched monograph, Michele Goodwin recounts the horrific contempora…

1 - Birch (UK) & SHRI - Leela (Original Mix) [Kiksuya Records] 2 - Rockka - Monsoon (Original Mix) [Sound Avenue] 3 - Namatjira - Nakhal (Original Mix) [Sommersville Records] 4 - PASINDU - Zahra (Emma Sanchez Remix) [One Of A Kind] 5 - Parham & Jokke Ilsoe - Love Sequence (GMJ Sequential love remix) [Vapour Recordings] 6 - Michael A & Seyah - Veloc…

Aya Gruber, a professor of law at the University of Colorado Law School, has written a history of how the women’s movement in America has shaped the law on domestic violence and sexual assault. In The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration (University of California Press, 2020), Professor Gruber conte…

Many of us know that immigrants have been deported from the United States for well over a century, but has anyone ever asked how? In The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants (Princeton University Press, 2020), author Adam Goodman brings together new archival evidence to write an expansive history of deportation from t…

Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that directly or disproportionately impact poor Americans, including antipoverty programs such as the earned income tax credit, Medicaid, and affordable housing vouchers and subsidies. States and local governments spend tens of billions more. Iro…

Although Latinos are now the largest non-majority group in the United States, existing research on white attitudes toward Latinos has focused almost exclusively on attitudes toward immigration. Ignored Racism: White Animus Toward Latinos (Cambridge University Press) changes that. It argues that such accounts fundamentally underestimate the politica…

"The Polish Police, commonly called the Blue or uniformed police in order to avoid using the term “Polish,” has played a most lamentable role in the extermination of the Jews of Poland. The uniformed police has been an enthusiastic executor of all German directives regarding the Jews." -Emanuel Ringelblum, Warsaw, 1943. Shortly after the occupation…

1 - D-Nox & DJ Zombi - There Is Hope (userUNKNWN Remix) [Beat Boutique] 2 - Monuloku - Blue (Artem Arknet Remix) [Future Avenue] 3 - Rockka - Noah's Ark (Original Mix) [Sound Avenue] 4 - Facgar - Infinite (Original Mix) [Electronic Groove Records] 5 - Poli Poli & Boris Louit - Fleeting Phenomenon (Original Mix) [Electronic Groove Records] 6 - Hakan…

For 40 years, this classic text has taken the issue of economic inequality seriously and asked: Why are our prisons filled with the poor? Why aren't the tools of the criminal justice system being used to protect Americans from predatory business practices and to punish well-off people who cause widespread harm? This new edition continues to engage …

1 - Monuloku - Blue (Melodiam (AR) Remix) [Future Aveneue] 2 - Kyotto - Lost In The Clouds (Original Mix) [CRFT Music] 3 - D-Nox & DJ Zombi - There Is Hope (Sides Remix) [Beat Boutique] 4 - Donny Carr - Water Bear (Original Mix) [Balkan Connection] 5 - Gorkiz & Kaito Aman - Fractal (Original Mix) [Transensations Records] 6 - Manu López Sound - Imm…

'A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more they are beaten, the better they’ll be.' So went the proverb quoted by a prominent MP in the Houses of Parliament in 1853. His words – intended ironically in a debate about a rise in attacks on women – summed up the prevailing attitude of the day, in which violence against women was waved away as a part a…

1 - Venao - Metamorfose (Original Mix) [Comet Records] 2 - Dylan Deck - Salvation (Emmanuel Dip Remix) [BC2 Records] 3 - David Zen - The Creators (Original Mix) [Deepersense Music] 4 - Rafaella Sangalli - Turning Around (Berdu Remix) [South America Avenue] 5 - Manu López Sound - Sero Traveller (Original Mix) [Beat Boutique] 6 - GMJ & Jiminy Hop - …

1 - Birch (UK) & SHRI - Hedera (Original Mix) [Kiksuya Records] 2 - Rikk Earth - Ivy (Soul Engineers Remix) [Nordic Voyage] 3 - Edu Schwartz - Dangerous Talk (Original Mix) [For Senses Records] 4 - Wolfframm - Control (James Beetham Remix) [Late Night Music] 5 - sub-Emerge - Transient Memories (Veytik Remix) [90watts] 6 - Bianco Vargas & Murilo Dam…

1 - Mars Monero - The Mapmaker's Dementia (St.Ego Remix) [3rd venue] 2 - Martin Di Sciascio - White Sage (Original Mix) [Future Avenue] 3 - Abity - Akram (Original Mix) [Madden] 4 - Mind Of Us - Forever (Original Mix) [Just Movement] 5 - Michael A - Pulstar (Original Mix) [inU] 6 - Dylan Deck - Salvation (Monostone Remix) [BC2 Records] 7 - Ivan Ali…