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Above: The 2021 Attack on the U.S. Capitol represents just one of several extremist occurrences within the past seven years.Photo: Chris Jones …

Introduction Social theories don’t emerge from a vacuum. They are neither apolitical nor ahistorical. Rather, they form from both the philosophical assumptions …

Fear and Control Hate groups and hate crime have a close relationship. That relationship’s foundations? Fear. Fear of a threat from a …

In his exploration of America’s punitive turn at the end of the twentieth century, legal scholar Jonathan Simon examines the publications of …

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Note: I originally wrote several blog posts for the 2019 GEDI Conteporary Pedagogy Course at Virginia Tech. At their original time of writing, posts were hosted on a different page. Those posts with the “GEDI” tag may have links leading to posts or resources which are no longer available.