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Thomas, S. & Christian, J. (2018). Betwixt and between: Incarcerated men, familial ties and social visibility. Pp. 273-287. In R. Condry and P.S. Smith (Eds) Prisons, Punishment and the Family: Towards a New Sociology of Punishment. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

This chapter draws from a qualitative study of incarcerated men to investigate the social processes and interactions between both correctional authorities and family members that inform their sense of belonging... Learn More

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Lageson, S. (2020). Digital punishment: Privacy, stigma, and the harms of data-driven criminal justice. Oxford University Press.

The proliferation of data-driven criminal justice operations creates millions of criminal records each year in the United States. Documenting everything from a police stop to a prison sentence, these records... Learn More

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Lageson, S. (2020). The purgatory of digital punishment. Slate.

It doesn’t matter whether they’re accurate—criminal records are all over the internet, where anyone can find them. And everyone does. On a frozen December day in Minneapolis, William walked into... Learn More

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Lageson, S. (2020). How criminal background checks lead to discrimination against millions of Americans. Washington Post.

As the criminal justice system comes under scrutiny, our national reckoning should include reining in the outsize influence that police and courts wield in the lives of millions of people... Learn More

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Lageson, S. (2020). Mugshots don’t belong on search engines. San Francisco Chronicle.

As criminal legal reform sweeps the country, the mug shot has rightly come up for re-evaluation. Taken at horrible moments in people’s lives, these photos have been deployed across the... Learn More

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Corda, A., & Lageson, S. (2020). Disordered punishment: Workaround technologies of criminal records disclosure and the rise of a new penal entrepreneurialism. British Journal of Criminology 60(2):245-264.

The privatization of punishment is a well-established phenomenon in modern criminal justice operations. Less understood are the market and technological forces that have dramatically reshaped the creation and sharing of... Learn More

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Lageson, S. and Maruna, S. (2018). Digital degradation: Stigma management in the internet age. Punishment & Society 20(1):113-133.

The concept of stigma and labeling has been central to the sociology of punishment since at least the writings of Durkheim and Mead. However, the vast transformations brought on by... Learn More

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Jacobsen, S.K., Miller, J. & Bhardwaj, N. (2020). Gender, racial threat, and perceived risk in an urban university setting. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 57(5), 612-639.

We provide new insights about the role of gender, race, and place in perceived risk and fear of crime and discuss the possible boundaries of the shadow of sexual assault... Learn More

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Grundetjern, H. & Miller, J. (2019). It’s not just the drugs that are difficult to quit: Women’s drug dealing as a source of empowerment and its implications for crime persistence. British Journal of Criminology, 59(2), 416-434.

Research comparing crime desisters with persistent offenders has tended to find persisters to be a marginalized group who, for personal, interactional and/or structural reasons, are unable to break free from... Learn More

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Berryessa, C.M. (2020). The effects of essentialist thinking toward biosocial risk factors for criminality and types of offending on lay punishment support. Behavioral Sciences & the Law.

This research uses experimental methods to gauge how different facets of essentialist thinking toward (1) types of offending and (2) biosocial risk factors for criminality predict lay punishment support. A... Learn More

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