 frequently echoing the punitiveness of our legal system, which comes down hard on purported accomplices to crimes who are disproportionately poor people and people of color. She makes these arguments in her book, Beyond Complicity, Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems, which is published by UC Press. Banner is professor of sociology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and her many books include Crowdsourcing the Law, Trying Sexual Assault on Social Media,