Contact with the carceral state—ranging from police stops to prison time—is a frequent
experience in the United States, particularly in communities marginalized on the basis of …

Every year, millions of Americans experience the incarceration of a family member. Using 30
years of administrative data from Ohio and exploiting differing incarceration propensities of …

Despite two decades of declining crime rates, the United States continues to incarcerate a
historically and comparatively large segment of the population. Moreover, incarceration and …

Recently, we have witnessed the politicizing effects of police killings in the United States.
This project asks how such killings might (de) mobilize voters at the local level. We draw on …

Police, like other bureaucratic agencies, are responsible for collecting and disseminating
policy-relevant data. Nonetheless, critical data, including killings by police, often go …

After featuring prominently in early law and society research, the study of subfelony
enforcement and processing was largely eclipsed by the study of mass incarceration. Of late …

Political scientists have increasingly begun to study how citizen characteristics shape
whether—and how—they interact with the police. Less is known about how officer …

Contemporary election reforms that are purported to increase or decrease turnout tend to
have negligible effects on election outcomes. We offer an analytical framework to explain …

Activated by injustice, members of over-policed communities lead the current movement for
civil rights in the United States. Responding to decades of abuse by law enforcement and an …

The American criminal legal system is an important site of political socialization: scholars
have shown that criminal legal contact reduces turnout and that criminalization pushes …