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Vesla M. Weaver

Vesla M. Weaver, Assistant Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Yale University, is coauthor of Arresting Citizenship.

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Law & Justice, Race

The Untold Story of Mass Incarceration

Two new books, including National Book Award nominee ‘Locking Up Our Own,’ address major blind spots about the causes of America’s carceral failure.

Vesla M. Weaver

Law & Justice, Podcast

Abolish the Police?

Is policing a public good gone bad?

Tracey L. Meares, Vesla M. Weaver

Law & Justice, Politics

The Only Government I Know

How the criminal justice system degrades citizenship.

Vesla M. Weaver

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