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Banishment as City Policy
The growing trend of allowing police to "banish" citizens from certain neighborhoods is explored in Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America, by UW Professors Katherine Beckett and Steve Herbert.
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Extreme Makeover for Savery Hall
An economist, a philosopher, and a sociologist walk into a room.... No, it's not a joke. It's what you'll find at the Savery Hall Open House on October 16. The event celebrates completion of the building's two-year renovation.
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A Sobering Map of Sexual Liaisons
Sociology professor Katherine Stovel studies teens’ sexual behavior and transmission of sexually transmitted diseases.
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45 Years Later, an Apology from the U.S. Government
When A&S alumnus Gordon Hirabayashi refused to go to an internment camp in 1942, he went to prison for his actions. Nearly five decades later, the government finally overturned his conviction.