- Why It’s Illegal to Feed the Homeless in Cities Across America (Newsweek)
- More Americans are in debt than ever - and some are being jailed for it (The News & Observer)
- How poverty became a crime in America (The Guardian)
- America's cruel way to punish poor debtors: take away their driver's license (The Guardian)
Underprivileged Deviance and Policy
- Driving While Poor: How Unpaid Traffic Fines Land Some Motorists in Jail (Center on Media Crime and Justice)
- The Criminalization of Gentrifying Neighborhoods (The Atlantic)
- How the Surveillance State Destroys the Lives of Poor Whites and People of Color (The American Prospect)
- I Couldn’t Afford To Pay My Student Loans. Then I Received A Warrant For My Arrest.(HuffPost)
- Shoplifting in Chicago dropped after a change in the food stamp program (The Washington Post)
- When retail stores close down, neighborhood crime goes up (Curbed)
Property Crime
- Porch piracy: Here's what we learned after watching hours of YouTube videos showing packages being pilfered from homes (The Conversation)
Organized Crime
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We spoke to hundreds of prison gang members – here's what they said about life behind bars (The Conversation)
- Violence in Mexico peaks as cartels fight over drugs and avocados (Los Angeles Times)
- How to Crush an Outlaw Biker Club: Seize Its … Logo? (The New York Times)
- With 13,000 gang members in Orange County, the push is on to curb crime and recruitment (OC Register)
- Cholos Are As American As Apple Pie (Daily Chela)
Social Factors
- A High-Crime Neighborhood Makes It Harder To Show Up For School (NPR)
- Greener Grass, Fewer Crimes? (Society Pages)
- The striking new evidence that expanding health coverage reduces crime (Vox)
Global Issues
- In a lawless stretch of Mexico, child soldiers as young as 6 are being drafted to fight crime (The Los Angeles Times)