Articles
- A People’s Abolition: How policed communities describe and enact liberatory futures. with Mihir Chaudhary & Gwen Prowse. Social Science Quarterly, Freedom Dreams Symposium.
- My Group or Myself? How Black, Latino, and White Americas Choose a Neighborhood, Job, and Candidate when Personal and Group Interest Diverge. with Jennifer Hochschild and Spencer Piston. Perspectives on Politics
- Racial Authoritarianism in U.S. Democracy. with Gwen Prowse. Science.
- Withdrawing and Drawing In: Political Discourse in Policed Communities with Gwen Prowse and Spencer Piston. Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.
- De-Policing America’s Youth: Disrupting Criminal Justice Policy Feedbacks That Distort Power and Derail Prospects. with Amanda Geller, ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
- The State from Below: Distorted Responsiveness in Policed Communities. with Gwen Prowse and Tracey Meares. Urban Affairs Review
- Too Much Knowledge, Too Little Power: An Assessment of Political Knowledge in Highly Policed Communities with Spencer Piston and Gwen Prowse, Journal of Politics. Supplemental Online Appendix.
- The Great Decoupling: The Disconnection Between Criminal Offending and Experience of Arrest Across Two Cohorts. with Andrew Papachristos and Michael Zanger-Tishler. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.
- Police Are Our Government: Politics, Political Science, and the Policing of Race-Class Subjugated Communities. with Joe Soss, Annual Review of Political Science
- Political Consequences of the Carceral State with Amy Lerman, American Political Science Review
- Frontlash: Race and the Development of Punitive Crime Policy
Studies in American Political Development - Staying Out of Sight? Concentrated Policing and Local Political Action. with Amy Lerman, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
- Destabilizing the American Racial Order with Jennifer Hochschild, Daedalus
- Is the Significance of Race Declining in the Political Arena? Yes, and No with Jennifer Hochschild, Ethnic and Racial Studies
- “There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’bama”: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism with Jennifer Hochschild, Perspectives on Politics, Winner of the best paper award from the APSA Public Policy section
Electoral Consequences of Skin Color: The “Hidden” Side of Race in Politics. Political Behavior Political Behavior. Data available here.- The Skin Color Paradox and the American Racial Order
with Jennifer Hochschild, Social Forces
- Between Reconstructions: Congressional Action on Civil Rights, 1890-1950
with Jeff Jenkins and Justin Peck, Studies in American Political Development
Chapters & Essays
- Policing Narratives in the Black Counterpublic, in The Ethics of Policing: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, B. Jones & E. Mendieta, NYU Press (2021): 149-178.
- Learning From Ferguson: Welfare, Criminal Justice, and the Political Science of Race and Class with Joe Soss, APSA Taskforce on Racial and Class Inequalities in the Americas
- Black Citizenship and Summary Punishment: A Brief History to the Present, Theory and Event.
- A Tradeoff Between Democracy and Deterrence? An Empirical Investigation of Prison Violence and Inmate Advisory Councils.* with Amy Lerman, in Democratic Theory and Mass Incarceration (I. Loader, A. Dzur, and R. Sparks, eds.)
- Unhappy Harmony: Black Mass Incarceration in a “Postracial” Era*
In Beyond Discrimination: Racial Inequality in a Post-Racial Era (F. Harris and R. Lieberman, eds.) - Embedding Crime Policy: The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration and the Growth of the Carceral State* In Living Legislation: Durability, Change and the Politics of American Lawmaking (J. Jenkins and E. Patashnik, eds.)
- Race and Crime in American Politics: From Law and Order to Willie Horton and Beyond* with Amy Lerman. Oxford Handbook of Race, Ethnicity, Immigration, and Crime, Oxford University Press (S. Bucerius and M. Tonry, eds.)
- The Carceral State and American Political Development*
with Amy Lerman. Oxford Handbook of American Political Development, Oxford University Press (R. Lieberman, S. Mettler, and R. Valelly, eds.) - Racial Classification and the Politics of Inequality
with Jennifer Hochschild. In J. Soss, S. Mettler, and J. Hacker, Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality
*Essays without links are available at my Academia.edu site.
Reviews & Symposia
More security may actually make us feel less secure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2018)
The Untold Story of Mass Incarceration, book review of James Forman, Jr.’s Locking Up Our Own and John Pfaff’s Locked In, Boston Review
Detaining Democracy? Criminal Justice and American Civic Life
With colleagues Jacob Hacker and Chris Wildeman, a convening to showcase new research exploring how punishment impacts the health of civic and political life in the United States. Papers and commentary were published in a special issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in Jan. 2014, including an introduction by us.
Critical Trialogue: Arresting Citizenship, Caught, and The First Civil Right in Perspectives on Politics
“The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America” in Perspectives on Politics
“Justice in America” in Public Opinion Quarterly
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