In her new book, Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall, HLS Assistant Professor of Law Anna Lvovsky chronicles the tactics used to criminalize, profile, and suppress gay life from the 1930s through the 1960s, and the surprising controversies those tactics often inspired in court. In this conversation with PCJ faculty chair Sandra Susan Smith, Professor Lvovsky discusses how this research came about and its relevance for current discussions of police discretion and abuse of power.
Voir Dire Podcast Joins PCJ
PCJ is excited to announce that it has adopted Voir Dire, a podcast formerly housed at the HLS Criminal Justice Policy Program. You can expect to hear in-depth conversations with folks on the front lines of reforming the criminal legal system. Some episodes will feature republication of conversations hosted by PCJ and some will present new interviews by the podcast's host, Schuyler Daum. You can find an archive as well as our most recent conversation with Anti Police-Terror Project founder, Cat Brooks, here.