Hello, my name is Dr. Kevin Karpiak. I am a Professor of Criminology at Eastern Michigan University, Director of the SMART research project, and a resident of Ann Arbor. I am calling today to voi...
Came across a new article in @ASR_Journal by @StanfordSoc Prof. Susan Olzak entitled "Does Protest Against Police Violence Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities, 1990 through 2019" (/1) https://journ...
https://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2021/12/03/on-whether-civilian-review-boards-matter/
I recently gave a “Lunch and Learn” talk for the Washtenaw County League of Women Voters on the topic of “Policing, Justice, and Community: An Anthropological Perspective” in which I outl...
I circulated this letter raising pointed questions for police budgeting to various local representatives and organizations: Dear CM _____, I am writing to you now—not representing any particula...
https://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2021/02/15/ann-arbor-budget-questions-2021-2022/
Exertions, the blog of the Society for the Anthropology of Work, has published a new series of posts entitled “Policing and Labor.” Many wonderful people have contributed to it, so I suggest ...
https://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2020/12/01/what-is-the-work-in-police-work/
I’ve sent the following letter to my State-Level representatives (and aspiring candidates) today. Fell free to copy, paste and edit as you see fit. Dear , Recently Ann Arbor City Counci...
https://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2020/07/02/todays-correspondence/
I’ve finally been reading bits and pieces of Donna Haraway’s Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, which, I’ve been doing as part of a larger project to imagine the end ...
https://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2018/11/28/donna-haraways-critters/
I’ve recently published a piece of creative non-fiction–part of my forthcoming book The Police Against Itself–as part of the blog Somatosphere’s series “Notes on Guns and Violence.” ...
https://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2018/10/09/new-piece-time-regained-on-somatosphere-blog/
I’m happy to announce that a collective project I’ve been working on for a very long time (over 3 years!) is finally out. The Anthropology of Police, edited by myself and William Garriott ...
Sometimes One runs across forgotten things in the nether regions of One’s hard drive. Today I can across this piece, an “abbreviated adventure novel” I wrote over fifteen years ago. Read...
https://kevinkarpiak.wordpress.com/2018/03/16/my-first-novel-now-completely-open-access/