Opportunity Costs in the War on Crime: The High Impact Anti-Crime Program in Newark

September 19, 2018.Reading time 19 minutes.

This post by Andy Grim is our third entrant into the Second Annual UHA/The Metropole Graduate Student Blogging Contest. Grim’s essay exams a moment in which the city of Newark “struck gold” by winning a High Impact Anti-Crime Program grant. The lucre, however, proved a mixed blessing… In January 1972, the Nixon Administration announced a […]

Member of the Week: Matthew Guariglia

September 18, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

Matthew Guariglia Ph.D. Candidate in History University of Connecticut @mguariglia Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? My current research explores how policing changed as U.S. cities became more racially and ethnically diverse between the 1860s and the 1920s. A few years ago I became very interested in how the state learns […]

Member of the Week: Tammy Ingram

October 31, 2017.Reading time 9 minutes.

Tammy Ingram Associate Professor of History College of Charleston @tammyingram Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I’m working on a new book that’s tentatively titled The Wickedest City in America: Sex, Race, and Organized Crime in the Jim Crow South. It’s about Phenix City, Alabama, a small city in the southern […]

Member of the Week: Joe Merton

October 24, 2017.Reading time 7 minutes.

Joe Merton Department of History University of Nottingham Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I’m currently working on a project which examines a perceived crisis of crime, particularly street crime, in 1960s and 1970s New York City, and its role in transforming the city’s politics, public policy […]