William Garriott
@profwillgarriott.bsky.social
Professor. Anthropology. Law & Society. Criminology. Writing, reading, and teaching about drug policy and justice reform. Author of Policing Methamphetamine. New book on cannabis legalization coming soon.
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To understand rural criminal justice, researchers need more than stats—they need a way to grasp the social fabric of rural communities. Our latest digest highlights Michele Statz & @profwillgarriott.bsky.social’s case for ethnography as one such tool.
Statz & Garriott: Studying Rural Criminal Justice Through Ethnography — The Rural Reconciliation Project
In Ethnographic Research: Immersing Oneself in the Rural Environment , M ichele Statz (Minnesota Medical School/Law) and William Garriott (Law, Politics, and Society, Drake University) present eth...
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August 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
To understand rural criminal justice, researchers need more than stats—they need a way to grasp the social fabric of rural communities. Our latest digest highlights Michele Statz & @profwillgarriott.bsky.social’s case for ethnography as one such tool.
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Buprenorphine cuts opioid withdrawal, cravings, and overdose risk by 50%—yet only 1 in 4 who need it get it. A family medicine provider examines the access gap in Philadelphia - and how some progress is being made. https://buff.ly/3EAy5np
Ben Cocchiaro, Drexel University #opioids
Ben Cocchiaro, Drexel University #opioids
How opioid deaths tripled in Philly over a decade − and what may be behind a recent downturn
After nearly a decade of annual upticks in overdose deaths, the city saw a drop in 2023, the latest data available. Something may finally be working − but what?
buff.ly
February 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Buprenorphine cuts opioid withdrawal, cravings, and overdose risk by 50%—yet only 1 in 4 who need it get it. A family medicine provider examines the access gap in Philadelphia - and how some progress is being made. https://buff.ly/3EAy5np
Ben Cocchiaro, Drexel University #opioids
Ben Cocchiaro, Drexel University #opioids
Doing Dry January or just generally “sober curious”? You may be part of the Neo-Temperance movement. 🧵
January 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Doing Dry January or just generally “sober curious”? You may be part of the Neo-Temperance movement. 🧵
The best advice I’ve gotten on course evaluations is to ignore the extremes, both positive and negative, and to focus on what all the other responses are saying. I’ve found this helpful because it’s the opposite of what our brains seem to want to do.
January 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The best advice I’ve gotten on course evaluations is to ignore the extremes, both positive and negative, and to focus on what all the other responses are saying. I’ve found this helpful because it’s the opposite of what our brains seem to want to do.
Another AI future to contemplate: it makes people more productive but less happy.
Will AI Help or Hurt Workers? One 26-Year-Old Found an Unexpected Answer.
New research shows AI made some workers more productive — but less happy.
finance.yahoo.com
December 29, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Another AI future to contemplate: it makes people more productive but less happy.
I agree. Things have changed. But I don’t agree it’s social drift towards libertarianism.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/b...
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When We Roll Back the Rules
We cover America’s embrace of individual freedom.
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December 26, 2024 at 7:38 PM
I agree. Things have changed. But I don’t agree it’s social drift towards libertarianism.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/b...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/b...
I’ve read several stories recently about Syria’s role in the captagon trade and how it became a narco-state. Here’s some background.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Syria Became the Middle East’s Drug Dealer
Bashar al-Assad has propped up his regime by exploiting the Middle East’s love of an amphetamine called captagon.
www.newyorker.com
December 18, 2024 at 2:00 PM
I’ve read several stories recently about Syria’s role in the captagon trade and how it became a narco-state. Here’s some background.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Just finished the @propublica.org article on domestic formaldehyde exposure and it immediately reminded me of this great article by Nicholas Shapiro.
December 11, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Just finished the @propublica.org article on domestic formaldehyde exposure and it immediately reminded me of this great article by Nicholas Shapiro.
Very interesting development in the ongoing legal debate over whether the smell of cannabis can serve as probable cause to perform a search.
Don’t think I’ve ever seen the distinction between raw and burnt given this level of significance before.
Don’t think I’ve ever seen the distinction between raw and burnt given this level of significance before.
Smell of Raw Cannabis Enough for Police to Search a Vehicle, Illinois Supreme Court Rules. Smell of Burnt Cannabis is Not
The disparity — that the smell of unsmoked marijuana is justification for a warrantless search, while the smell of smoked pot is not — “defies logic,” Justice Mary K. O’Brien wrote in her dissent.
news.wttw.com
December 7, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Very interesting development in the ongoing legal debate over whether the smell of cannabis can serve as probable cause to perform a search.
Don’t think I’ve ever seen the distinction between raw and burnt given this level of significance before.
Don’t think I’ve ever seen the distinction between raw and burnt given this level of significance before.
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Graduate students!
Want to spend the summer getting paid to research #drugpolicy, #socialequity, or pretty much any other policy topic?
@rand.org has a great Summer Associate Program
Apps due by Monday Dec 2, 11:59pm PT
Please consider applying & spread the word!
www.rand.org/jobs/summer-...
Want to spend the summer getting paid to research #drugpolicy, #socialequity, or pretty much any other policy topic?
@rand.org has a great Summer Associate Program
Apps due by Monday Dec 2, 11:59pm PT
Please consider applying & spread the word!
www.rand.org/jobs/summer-...
Graduate Student Summer Associate Program
Graduate students can apply to work with RAND experts on developing solutions to today's public policy challenges. Summer associates gain practical research experience in areas such as security, healt...
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November 27, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Graduate students!
Want to spend the summer getting paid to research #drugpolicy, #socialequity, or pretty much any other policy topic?
@rand.org has a great Summer Associate Program
Apps due by Monday Dec 2, 11:59pm PT
Please consider applying & spread the word!
www.rand.org/jobs/summer-...
Want to spend the summer getting paid to research #drugpolicy, #socialequity, or pretty much any other policy topic?
@rand.org has a great Summer Associate Program
Apps due by Monday Dec 2, 11:59pm PT
Please consider applying & spread the word!
www.rand.org/jobs/summer-...
Back in May, DOJ proposed moving #marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III. On Monday, DEA will start formal hearings. Here’s a quick thread on what it all means.
November 27, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Back in May, DOJ proposed moving #marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III. On Monday, DEA will start formal hearings. Here’s a quick thread on what it all means.
Also: we are living in a golden age of nonalcoholic options.
Note for the upcoming holiday season,,, some of us are on a sobriety journey and mocktails or non-alcoholic beer options make a big difference 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
November 26, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Also: we are living in a golden age of nonalcoholic options.
A deep dive into how #fentanyl gets into the US. Laws passed to facilitate global trade were a boon for fentanyl manufacturers as well. Having spent 20 years studying meth, this all feels very familiar.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
How fentanyl traffickers are exploiting a U.S. trade law
Narcos are sneaking fentanyl precursors into America under the noses of border agents. Fast-track customs entry helps them do it.
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2024 at 6:15 PM
A deep dive into how #fentanyl gets into the US. Laws passed to facilitate global trade were a boon for fentanyl manufacturers as well. Having spent 20 years studying meth, this all feels very familiar.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.
Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.
www.businessinsider.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:47 AM
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.
The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
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Shout out to all my fellow procrastinators who are bluescrolling right now instead of doing whatever productive thing you're supposed to be doing.
We should start a club.
(But not right now. Maybe later)
We should start a club.
(But not right now. Maybe later)
November 26, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Shout out to all my fellow procrastinators who are bluescrolling right now instead of doing whatever productive thing you're supposed to be doing.
We should start a club.
(But not right now. Maybe later)
We should start a club.
(But not right now. Maybe later)
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Reposted by William Garriott
Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Directions Digital November 2024 In this video, PoLAR's Directions Section co-editor Deniz Yonucu is joined by anthropologists Beatrice Jauregui, Erol Saglam, and Tomas Salem to discuss Salem's new book, Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro: Cosmologies of…
Directions Digital November 2024 In this video, PoLAR's Directions Section co-editor Deniz Yonucu is joined by anthropologists Beatrice Jauregui, Erol Saglam, and Tomas Salem to discuss Salem's new book, Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro: Cosmologies of…
Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Directions Digital November 2024 In this video, PoLAR's Directions Section co-editor Deniz Yonucu is joined by anthropologists Beatrice Jauregui, Erol Saglam, and Tomas Salem to discuss Salem's new book, Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro: Cosmologies of War and the Far-Right. Salem's book is an open access book published by Springer, and you can download a digital copy at the link above.
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November 25, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Directions Digital November 2024 In this video, PoLAR's Directions Section co-editor Deniz Yonucu is joined by anthropologists Beatrice Jauregui, Erol Saglam, and Tomas Salem to discuss Salem's new book, Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro: Cosmologies of…
Directions Digital November 2024 In this video, PoLAR's Directions Section co-editor Deniz Yonucu is joined by anthropologists Beatrice Jauregui, Erol Saglam, and Tomas Salem to discuss Salem's new book, Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro: Cosmologies of…
This is a win for legalization supporters in Nebraska, but there are still several more challenges to be overcome before we know if medical cannabis will become legal in the state.
nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/11/22/a...
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All charges dismissed against notary for Nebraska medical cannabis petitions • Nebraska Examiner
All charges against a notary for medical cannabis petitions were dismissed, possibly impacting a larger case against the successful measures.
nebraskaexaminer.com
November 25, 2024 at 1:50 PM
This is a win for legalization supporters in Nebraska, but there are still several more challenges to be overcome before we know if medical cannabis will become legal in the state.
nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/11/22/a...
nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/11/22/a...
Great look into what happens when your data gets breached and the downsides of signing up for that free credit monitoring service (hint: always read the fine print).
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www.npr.org
November 22, 2024 at 11:16 PM
Great look into what happens when your data gets breached and the downsides of signing up for that free credit monitoring service (hint: always read the fine print).
www.npr.org/2024/11/22/n...
www.npr.org/2024/11/22/n...
Thanks for the shoutout, Garrett Halydier! “most on-point” is high praise indeed.
November 21, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Thanks for the shoutout, Garrett Halydier! “most on-point” is high praise indeed.
Friendly reminder that, whether you’re in Tampa or not for #AAA2024Tampa, you can still buy books!
We're excited to showcase our virtual display booth for this year's American Anthropological Association meeting!
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Use code 09EXP40 to save 40% and receive free shipping (US orders only).
#AAA24 #Anthropology
See all books: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/our-anthro-2...
November 21, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Friendly reminder that, whether you’re in Tampa or not for #AAA2024Tampa, you can still buy books!