The mission of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought (CCCCT) is to nourish the critical examination of our present and to achieve a critical praxis for our future. The CCCCT is the home of the Initiative for a Just Society (IJS). The CCCCT is a joint project of the Columbia Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Columbia Law School.
Articles
Broken Windows: New Evidence from New York City and a Five-City Social Experiment, Bernard Harcourt and Jens Ludwig
From the Asylum to the Prison: Rethinking the Incarceration Revolution, Bernard Harcourt
From the Ne'er-Do-Well to the Criminal History Category: The Refinement of the Actuarial Model in Criminal Law, Bernard Harcourt
Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America, Bernard E. Harcourt
Joel Feinberg on Crime and Punishment: Exploring the Relationship Between The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law and The Expressive Function of Punishment, Bernard Harcourt
Keynote: The Crisis and Criminal Justice, Bernard Harcourt
On Gun Registration, the NRA, Adolf Hitler, and Nazi Gun Laws: Exploding the Gun Culture Wars (A Call to Historians), Bernard Harcourt
Policing L.A.'s Skid Row: Crime and Real Estate Development in Downtown Los Angeles [an Experiment in Real Time], Bernard E. Harcourt
Radical Thought from Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, Through Foucault, to the Present: Comments on Steven Lukes’s In Defense of "False Consciousness", Bernard E. Harcourt
Randomization and the Fourth Amendment, Bernard Harcourt and Tracey L. Meares
Reducing Mass Incarceration: Lessons from the Deinstitutionalization of Mental Hospitals in the 1960s, Bernard Harcourt
Reflecting on the Subject: A Critique of the Social Influence Conception of Deterrence, the Broken Windows Theory, and Order-Maintenance Policing New York Style, Bernard Harcourt
Rethinking Racial Profiling: A Critique of the Economics, Civil Liberties, and Constitutional Literature, and of Criminal Profiling More Generally, Bernard Harcourt
The Collapse of the Harm Principle, Bernard Harcourt
The Politics of Incivility, Bernard Harcourt
The Shaping of Chance: Actuarial Models and Criminal Profiling at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, Bernard Harcourt
Essays
Judge Richard Posner on Civil Liberties: Pragmatic Authoritarian Libertarian, Bernard Harcourt
Reefer Madness: Broken Windows Policing and Misdemeanor Marijuana Arrests in New York City, 1989-2000, Bernard E. Harcourt and Jens Ludwig
Forewords
Transparent Adjudication and Social Science Research in Constitutional Criminal Procedure, Tracey L. Meares and Bernard Harcourt
Responses/Comments
Mature Adjudication: Interpretive Choice in Recent Death Penalty Cases, Bernard Harcourt
On the American Paradox of Laissez Faire and Mass Incarceration, Bernard E. Harcourt
Risk as a Proxy for Race: The Dangers of Risk Assessment, Bernard E. Harcourt
Working Papers
Abolition in the U.S.A. by 2050: On Political Capital and Ordinary Acts of Resistance, Bernard E. Harcourt
After the "Social Meaning Turn": Implications for Research Design and Methods of Proof in Contemporary Criminal Law Policy Analysis, Bernard E. Harcourt
Against Prediction: Sentencing, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age, Bernard E. Harcourt
An Answer to the Question: "What is Poststructuralism?", Bernard E. Harcourt
An Institutionalization Effect: The Impact of Mental Hospitalization and Imprisonment on Homicide in the United States, 1934-2001, Bernard E. Harcourt
A Reader's Companion to Against Prediction: A Reply to Ariela Gross, Yoram Margalioth, and Yoav Sapir on Economic Modeling, Selective Incapacitation, Governmentality, and Race, Bernard E. Harcourt
Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments: A Mirror on the History of the Foundations of Modern Criminal Law, Bernard E. Harcourt
Becker and Foucault on Crime and Punishment – A Conversation with Gary Becker, François Ewald, and Bernard Harcourt: The Second Session, Gary S. Becker, Francois Ewald, and Bernard E. Harcourt
"Becker on Ewald on Foucault on Becker": American Neoliberalism and Michel Foucault's 1979 Birth of Biopolitics Lectures, Gary S. Becker, Francois Ewald, and Bernard E. Harcourt
Critique & Praxis: A Pure Theory of Illusions, Values, and Tactics, and An Answer to the Question: "What is to Be Done?", Bernard E. Harcourt
Digital Security in the Expository Society: Spectacle, Surveillance, and Exhibition in the Neoliberal Age of Big Data, Bernard E. Harcourt
Embracing Chance: Post-Modern Meditations on Punishment, Bernard E. Harcourt
Fantasies and Illusions: On Liberty, Order, and Free Market, Bernard E. Harcourt
Governing, Exchanging, Securing: Big Data and the Production of Digital Knowledge, Bernard E. Harcourt
Henry Louis Gates and Racial Profiling: What's the Problem?, Bernard E. Harcourt
Making Willing Bodies: Manufacturing Consent Among Prisoners and Soldiers, Creating Human Subjects, Patriots, and Everyday Citizens, Bernard E. Harcourt
Muslim Profiles Post-9/11: Is Racial Profiling an Effective Counterterrorist Measure and Does it Violate the Right to Be Free from Discrimination?, Bernard E. Harcourt
Neoliberal Penality: A Brief Genealogy, Bernard E. Harcourt
Neoliberal Penality: The Birth of Natural Order, the Illusion of Free Markets, Bernard E. Harcourt
On Gun Registration, the NRA, Adolf Hitler, and Nazi Gun Laws: Exploding the Gun Culture Wars, Bernard E. Harcourt
Post-Modern Meditations on Punishment: On the Limits of Reason and the Virtues of Randomization (A Polemic and Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century), Bernard E. Harcourt
Punitive Preventive Justice: A Critique, Bernard E. Harcourt
Randomization and the Fourth Amendment, Bernard E. Harcourt and Tracey L. Meares
Randomization in Criminal Justice: A Criminal Law Conversation, Bernard E. Harcourt, Alon Harel, Ken Levy, Michael M. O'Hear, and Alice Ristroph
Reducing Mass Incarceration: Lessons from the Deinstitutionalization of Mental Hospitals in the 1960s, Bernard E. Harcourt
Reefer Madness: Broken Windows Policing and Misdemeanor Marijuana Arrests in New York City, 1989-2000, Bernard E. Harcourt and Jens Ludwig
Rethinking Racial Profiling: A Critique of the Economics, Civil Liberties, and Constitutional Literature, and of Criminal Profiling More Generally, Bernard E. Harcourt
Risk as a Proxy for Race, Bernard E. Harcourt
The ’73 Graft: Punishment, Political Economy, and the Genealogy of Morals, Bernard E. Harcourt
The Influence of Systems Analysis on Criminal Law and Procedure: A Critique of a Style of Judicial Decision-Making, Bernard E. Harcourt
The Politics of Incivility, Bernard E. Harcourt
The Systems Fallacy: From Operations Research to Contemporary Cost-Benefit Analysis: The Perils of Systems Analysis, Past and Present, Bernard E. Harcourt
Three Essays in Criminal Justice, Bernard E. Harcourt
Unconstitutional Police Searches and Collective Responsibility, Bernard E. Harcourt
"You are Entering a Gay- and Lesbian-Free Zone": On the Radical Dissents of Justice Scalia and Other (Post-) Queers, Bernard E. Harcourt