Robynn Cox and I have a new paper! It's about the history of predictive algorithms in criminal justice, back in the 1920s-1950s. This paper is the result of five years of research and we're so happy to see it out. 🧵 1/
The Dept of Sociology & Criminology at the University of Utah is hiring 2 non-TT lecturers. Ideal candidate should bridge Soc & Crim but the teaching need is primarily in criminology.
Happy to chat with anyone who may be interested.
utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/195...
What a privilege to have Dr. Leafia Ye present her work in our department @utah.edu!
Thank you for your engaging and interesting talk! And thank you for braving the snow to get to us 😅❄️
Graph showing that the US has the highest incarceration rate among founding NATO countries.
A grim reminder this 4th of July: The US has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on Earth, making it a leader in mass incarceration.
Far too many people are locked up in the “land of the free.”
New paper: Wives with more education than husband are *more* likely to take his name than education-equal marriages.
As women outpace men in education & increasingly keep their names, name-taking provides symbolic way to compensate for her status superiority
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Please just us on 5/13 @ 1pm ET for a panel on "How to Conference" sponsored by ASA's Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance! We have an amazing group of interdisciplinary scholars. Feel free to dm me for more info!
New article theorizing the “spatial burdens” of state institutions. Drawing on 125 interviews and over 400 hours of observations among court-involved people in the Bay Area, we show how space shapes poverty governance and institutional inequality.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
This book is powerful!
It reveals the experiences of mothers who fear CPS will take their children away, while also exploring why people report to CPS and the process of investigation.
Importantly, it highlights the problems with using CPS as a tool to address poverty. @kelleyfong.bsky.social
Check out @chiarapackard.bsky.social's thread for info on how to sign up for our discussion tomorrow on this amazing book by @kelleyfong.bsky.social!
Join LSA’s Punishment and Society Reading Group to discuss this book TOMORROW at 3pm ET.
Here’s the link to join our emailing list: forms.gle/MTkyDqWLm76c... @erineife.bsky.social
This book is powerful!
It reveals the experiences of mothers who fear CPS will take their children away, while also exploring why people report to CPS and the process of investigation.
Importantly, it highlights the problems with using CPS as a tool to address poverty. @kelleyfong.bsky.social
Join the Punishment & Society Reading Group this Friday, April 18th at 3 pm ET to discuss Investigating Families @kelleyfong.bsky.social ✨ We’re lucky that Dr. Fong will be joining the conversation!
DM me to subscribe to our mailing list and receive the Zoom link to join 📥 @erineife.bsky.social
Yearly reminder that you can get a free year of ASA membership if you got your Ph.D. within the last year! #SocAF
The universities now under investigation for allegedly engaging in race-exclusionary practices in their graduate programs include: Arizona State University – Main Campus Boise State University Cal Poly Humboldt California State University – San Bernadino Carnegie Mellon University Clemson University Cornell University Duke University Emory University George Mason University Georgetown University Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Montana State University-Bozeman New York University (NYU) Rice University Rutgers University The Ohio State University – Main Campus Towson University Tulane University University of Arkansas – Fayetteville University of California-Berkeley University of Chicago University of Cincinnati – Main Campus University of Colorado – Colorado Springs University of Delaware University of Kansas University of Kentucky University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
University of Nebraska at Omaha University of New Mexico – Main Campus University of North Dakota – Main Campus University of North Texas – Denton University of Notre Dame University of NV – Las Vegas University of Oregon University of Rhode Island University of Utah University of Washington-Seattle University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Wyoming Vanderbilt University Washington State University Washington University in St. Louis Yale University
Columbia was first, but it seems very likely they're going to effectively use the same playback to retract federal scientific funding. A new hit list from Trump's Dept of Ed. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
Pie chart showing that nearly 2 million people are confined nationwide
It's #PiDay – which means it's time for our annual report, Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 🥧
Over the last year, US prisons & jails have locked up MORE people, growing the incarcerated population by 2%
But why? We answer that & bust the biggest myths of the carceral system🧵
I'm very confused. The university should not be requiring words be removed from article submissions. This infringes on academic freedom.
The new "banned words" apply to grants, regardless of the origin of the applicant. It shouldn't matter if you have an American co-author on your research paper.
Hello Bluesky! 👋 I finally made the move from X and I'm so happy to be here.
For those of you who don't know me, I'm a sociologist and ethnographer studying punishment, prosecutorial discretion, and inequality. I'm currently an asst prof of sociology and criminology at the University of Utah.
