SINCE THE EARLY 1980S, in one of Philadelphia’s poorest and most heavily blighted zones, hundreds of row homes have been transformed into unregulated, unlicensed recovery houses. Recovery houses have no official licensure or regulatory board in Pennsylvania, and they are run…

JEFFREY D. BROXMEYER (Political Science, CUNY): "The Boss’s ‘Brains’: Political Capital, Democratic Commerce and the New York Tweed Ring, 1868-1871" and EMMERICH DAVIES (Political Science, UPenn): "The Competing State: Using a Downstream Experiment to Understand the Effects of…

In a wide-ranging discussion, Professor Gilmore explores the geography of the California prison system as it evolved over time. In California as in much of the rest of the United States, a "prison-industrial complex" expanded and shifted in response to numerous factors, including…

JESSICA COOPER (Anthropology, Princeton): “The Double-Binds of the Universal and Psychological Citizenship Created in an American Behavioral Health Court” and LAURA SODERBERG (English, UPenn): “Vicious Infants: Child Citizenship and the Rise of Incorrigible Criminality in the…

IN THE COURSE OF ITS TRANSITION from a planned to a market economy, China has had to rebuild the existing system of public finances, since the previous one was embedded in the central planning institutions and wholly unsuitable for a mixed economy. The end of economic planning…