Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Brown University and an affiliated scholar with the American Bar Foundation, in Chicago, Illinois. She is the is the author of Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court (Stanford Law Books, 2016), which won numerous awards, including the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Scholarly Book Award. Her book, The Waiting Room (Amazon Original Stories, 2018), is a collaboration with the Pulitzer Prize–winning team at the Marshall Project and examines how the suffering - caused by pretrial incarceration - extends beyond the cages of the jail and into the communities. Her newest book, Crime Fictions: How Racist Lies Built a System of Wrongful Conviction (Random House), is the first account of “mass wrongful conviction” in the United States. Crime Fictions offers a novel intervention in the field of wrongful convictions by examining how racial stigma embeds in the seemingly race-blind, fact-finding stage of criminal investigations, demonstrating how wrongful conviction is systemic and actively produced by police.