Michelle Phelps, an Professor and Martindale Endowed Chair in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, studies punishment and the punitive turn in US policing, probation, and prisons. Phelps joined Dan Morrison to discuss her 2024 book with Princeton University Press, The Minneapolis Reckoning: Race, Violence, and the Politics of Policing in America. The book examines efforts at police reform before and after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Phelps is also co-author of Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice, with Philip Goodman and Joshua Page, published in 2017 with Oxford University Press.
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