Vesla M. Weaver

Vesla M. Weaver, Assistant Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Yale University. She is coauthor, with Amy E. Lerman, of Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control.

The Untold Story of Mass Incarceration

Reform can’t succeed unless we understand the complex political forces behind the expansion of the carceral state.

  • Vesla M. Weaver

Abolish the Police?

Is policing a public good gone bad?

  • Tracey L. Meares
  • Vesla M. Weaver

The Only Government I Know

How the Criminal Justice System Degrades Democratic Citizenship

  • Vesla M. Weaver
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