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Nancy A. Heitzeg

Nancy A. Heitzeg is professor of sociology and endowed chair in the sciences at St. Catherine University, and the author of The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double Standards.

Truthout
Dec 10, 2017
Latest from Nancy A. Heitzeg
Arnold Ventures-backed reforms are undermining radical efforts to end mass incarceration in the U.S.
News Analysis
Prisons & Policing

Billionaire-Funded Criminal Justice Reform Actually Expands Carceral System

Arnold Ventures-backed reforms are undermining radical efforts to end mass incarceration in the U.S.
by
Kay Whitlock &
Nancy A. Heitzeg,
Truthout
November 21, 2019
Truthout
Op-Ed

“Justice”: A Short Rant

Stop asking for “justice” from the system that is killing us — demand abolition.
by
Nancy A. Heitzeg,
Critical Mass Progress
March 31, 2016
Truthout
Op-Ed

Poverty as Prison, Reprise

We are a nation on lock down in more ways than we always see.
by
Nancy A. Heitzeg,
Critical Mass Progress
March 6, 2016
Truthout
Op-Ed
Politics & Elections

“Domestic Terrorism” and the Master’s Tools

The “terror” frame reifies the notion of violence as the work of individual extremists versus systems, and calls on the inherent violence of state policing and punishment to…
by
Nancy A. Heitzeg,
Critical Mass Progress
January 10, 2016
Truthout
Op-Ed
Prisons & Policing

The Daunting Task of Decarceration

It is possible that proposed “reform” isn’t meant to end mass incarceration at all, but rather create an opportunity for expanded profiteering.
by
Nancy A. Heitzeg,
Critical Mass Progress
September 8, 2015
Truthout
Op-Ed

“Broken Windows,” Broken Lives and the Ruse of “Public Order” Policing

The murder of Eric Garner brings to light again the never-ending unanswered questions.
by
Nancy A. Heitzeg,
Critical Mass Progress
July 17, 2015
Truthout
Op-Ed

The Ubiquity, the Banality of Mediated Policing and Punishment

How do you dismantle a system of excessive repression that many can no longer even see?
by
Nancy A. Heitzeg,
Critical Mass Progress
May 31, 2015
Truthout
Op-Ed

“Whiteness,” Criminality and the Double Standards of Deviance/Social Control

The wholesale criminalization of Blackness is juxtaposed with the mitigation of white deviance.
by
Nancy A. Heitzeg,
Critical Mass Progress
May 15, 2015
Truthout
Op-Ed

Commodified and Caged, Still

Human Supremacy is a Western conceit, one never adopted by those who are wiser.
by
Nancy A. Heitzeg,
Critical Mass Progress
April 21, 2015
Truthout
News Analysis

Moneyballing Justice: “Evidence-Based” Criminal Reforms Ignore Real Evidence

Proponents of “bipartisan criminal justice reform” fail to address exhaustive evidence of race-based policing.
by
Nancy A. Heitzeg &
Kay Whitlock,
Truthout
March 29, 2015
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