Heather Bone is a specialist in the economics of crime. It’s the basis of her research and there are traces of it in her tutorials and involvement in the broader community. Her research, though, is no...

Racially motivated eminent domain refers to the government practice of condemning and seizing private property while using a false or pretextual “public use” reason in order to remove people of a particular race. It works by combining the legal power of eminent domain with discriminatory intent: officials claim they need land for a road, park, or public project, but in reality the main goal is to dispossess a targeted racial group, often under pressure from local residents or white supremacist groups.

The Business Plot was an alleged 1933 conspiracy by a small group of wealthy American businessmen to organize a fascist-style veterans movement, overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and install retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler in a powerful new role while Roosevelt remained as a figurehead. The plot became public in 1934 when Butler testified under oath before a special House committee that a Wall Street bond salesman had tried to recruit him to lead an army of up to 500,000 veterans in a march on Washington.

Peace Dividends: Criminal Governance, Rational Violence, and Economic Development