"The Pregnancy Police is a tour de force, offering an insightful analysis of the rampant criminalization of pregnancy and pregnant people. Grace Howard skillfully reveals the many ways the pregnancy police are all around us—watching, reporting, and bringing harm to people seen as less than fully human because they have uteruses. The book is a brilliant addition to the reproductive justice literature."—Monica J. Casper, author of Babylost: Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z

"More and more people are paying attention to the criminalization of pregnancy in the aftermath of the reversal of Roe v. Wade. The Pregnancy Police will be a book that people must cite when discussing the phenomenon."—Khiara M. Bridges, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley

Grace Howard is an Associate Professor of Justice Studies at San José State University. After completing her Bachelor's degree at VCU, she earned her Ph.D. in Political Science at Rutgers University, with concentrations in Women and Politics and Public Law. Her new book, The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood is out now with University of California Press!

Join Dr. Howard and the Department of Political Science for a book talk on October 16 at 7:30 PM in MCALC 1107.