Amy Levad is an assistant professor at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a member of the Society of Christian Ethics (SCE).
Review of Good Punishment? Christian Moral Practice and U.S. Imprisonment (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008).
July/August 2013: Criminal Justice - Annual Book Review Issue (Volume 13 Issue 4)
[1] In her recent and important book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness (reviewed in this issue), attorney Michelle Alexander calls for a movement on par with the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century in order to overturn the damage caused by the unprecedented incarceration of large portions of […]
Response to Hearing the Cries: Faith and Criminal Justice
March 2011: Christ Made Sin and Criminal Justice (Volume 11 Issue 2)
[1] “I don’t understand why you care about those people. They’re just trash, and we should throw them away. I don’t want anything to do with them.” I have become accustomed to hearing statements like these from people whom I love, who are Christian, but who do not see my work critiquing criminal justice systems […]