Rounding up another round of terrific new essays at Inquest

It has been a couple of weeks since I blogged about the great new website Inquest, which describes itself as “a forum for advancing bold ideas to end mass incarceration in the United States.” But while I have been busy on other fronts, the site continues to churn out must-read essays and so I must do another post to spotlight these additional recently added pieces:

From David Alan Sklansky, “An American Invention: In the struggle to end mass incarceration, one must understand how the criminalization of violence is largely a modern creation.”

From Marlon Peterson, “A Disruptive Innovation: Dismantling the machine that is mass incarceration requires all of us to think outside the box.”

From Katherine Beckett, Forrest Stuart & Monica Bell, “From Crisis to Care: For alternative responses to policing to work and reduce the footprint of the criminal legal system, they must work in concert and holistically to address both immediate and longer-term social needs.”

From Kristin Henning, “Fear of the Black Child: American society and its criminal legal system simply won’t let Black kids be kids.”