podcast – CPz Deep Dive

Is drug addiction a disease that can be treated, or is it a crime that should be punished? In her probing study, Illness or Deviance?, Jennifer Murphy investigates the various perspectives on addiction, and how society has myriad ways of handling … Continue reading → The post Illness or Deviance? appeared first on CPz Deep Dive.

A History of Environmental Racism in the United States, by Carl Zimring, environmental historian and professor of sustainability studies at Pratt institute. Environmental racism is an age-old theme of equating cleanliness with whiteness – including working in professions that clean … Continue reading → The post Clean and White appeared first on CPz Deep Dive.

The exploitation of America’s most vulnerable, NYU Press Audiobooks. Law professor Daniel L. Hatcher (University of Baltimore) shows how money intended for orphans, foster kids, the disabled and seniors are diverted into the pockets of government agencies and private industry. The post The Poverty Industry appeared first on CPz Deep Dive.

Law professors Frank M. Teurkheimer (also a former Watergate prosecutor) and Michael J. Bazyler describe 10 court dramas of trials held apart from the famous Nuremberg tribunal of World War II Nazi and kapo defendants accused of war crimes, crimes … Continue reading → The post Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust appeared first on CPz Deep Dive.

University of Virginia professor Rachel Wahl explains how police experience human rights policies and advocates in light of what they consider their duty – to support the state in maintaining order. Although her research focuses on Ghandi’s home of India, … Continue reading → The post Just Violence: Torture and Human Rights in the Eyes of the Police appeared first on CPz Deep Dive.

University Press Audiobooks. Professor Eileen Appelbaum, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research shows how lobbyists writing bills passed by funded politicians and deregulation have destroyed honest and successful businesses through avaricious financial engineering practices devoted almost exclusively … Continue reading → The post Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street appeared first on CPz Deep Dive.

Carl Rollyson Audiobooks. Probably the most controversial American playwright, screenwriter and political activist – most noted for standing up to Sen. Joe McCarthy’s “Un-American Activities Committee” and refusing to give names – has her life story brought to life. Funny, … Continue reading → The post Lillian Hellman – Her Life and Legend appeared first on CPz Deep Dive.

Professor Stephanie C. Kane (Indiana University) takes us into the dark world where citizen water protectors are assassinated, corporations and government use water for profit while leaving the poor without enough, where pollution destroys fresh and sea water sources. Most … Continue reading → The post Where Rivers Meet the Sea: The Political Ecology of Water appeared first on CPz Deep Dive.

By one of the world’s most authoritative experts on the subjects, Laura Martooci, sociologist and the Founder and Director of the S.A.R.A. Project (Students Against Relational Aggression). Laura discusses the latest findings on research of bullies themselves, targets of bullying … Continue reading → The post Bullying – A Social Destruction of Self appeared first on CPz Deep Dive.