Nancy A. Heitzeg

Nancy A. Heitzeg, PhD, is Professor of Sociology and Critical Studies of Race/Ethnicity at St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN. She has written and presented widely on issues of race, class, gender, and social control with particular attention to the school to prison pipeline the prison industrial complex. In addition to her books, publications include "On Ferguson" in a special edition of ProudFlesh: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics, and Consciousness; "Criminalization and Medicalization: The School to Prison Pipeline and Racialized Double-Standards of Disciplinary Control" in Praeger's The Race Controversy in American Education; "The Civil Rights Act of 1964: Ending the Old Jim Crow, Foreshadowing the New" in Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy; "'Whiteness,' Criminality, and the Double-Standards of Deviance/Social Control" in Contemporary Justice Review, Special Issue: Critical White Studies in Crime & Justice; "Criminalizing Education: Zero Tolerance Policies, Police in the Hallways, and the School to Prison Pipeline" in From Education to Incarceration; "The High Cost of Profit: Racism, Classism, and Interests against Prison Privatization" in Prison Privatization: The State of Theory and Practice; "Differentials in Deviance: Race, Class, Gender, and Age" in The International Handbook of Deviant Behavior; and "The Racialization of Crime and Punishment: Criminal Justice, Color-Blind Racism, and the Political Economy of the Prison Industrial Complex," which appeared in a special volume of American Behavioral Scientist: Micro-Level Social Justice Projects, Pedagogy, and Democratic Movements.Heitzeg has been coeditor of an online blog series, Criminal Injustice, which is devoted to encouraging public education, dialogue, and action on issues of mass criminalization and incarceration.