Ms. Studios debuted a new podcast on Nov 13th titled “Torn Apart: Abolishing Family Policing and Reimagining Child Welfare.” PRSS Director Roberts hosts the podcast, which is based on her most recent book, Torn Apart. For more information about the podcast and to listen to episode 1, please click here: https://msmagazine.com/podcast/torn-apart-terror/
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Basic Books 2022) won the 2023 American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Book Award Honorable Mention. It was also a finalist for both the LA Times Book Prize and the C. Wright Mills Award and made the shortlist for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice.