These panels bring together scholars in the emerging subfield of “critical police studies.” CPS scholars use qualitative methods and draw on a range of data sources to critically examine the dynamics of race and class in law enforcement…

The widespread protests that followed the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014 and Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland in 2015 capture the controversial nature of policing in racially marginalized communities…

Law and society scholarship illuminates how law can inform and react to social change that takes shape through social movements and in everyday life…

The Ethnography Collaborative Research Network within the Law and Society Association is sponsoring several panels and events of interest to anthropologists. APLA is featuring a preview of the panels and papers…

Papers in Part III, presented here, explore the subjective dimensions of law and politics in situations where the contours of legality are contested…

These three linked sessions present detailed ethnographic examinations of the legal governance of crime, punishment, risk and security…

These three linked sessions present detailed ethnographic examinations of the legal governance of crime, punishment, risk and security…

The Ethnography Collaborative Research Network within the Law and Society Association is sponsoring several panels and events of interest to anthropologists…