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 …

This article examines the origins of US mass incarceration. Although it is clear that changes
in policy and practice are the proximate drivers of the prison boom, researchers continue to …

Researchers often lack the necessary data to credibly estimate racial discrimination in
policing. In particular, police administrative records lack information on civilians police …

Despite decades of declining crime rates, longstanding tensions between police and the
public continue to frustrate the formation of cooperative relationships necessary for the …

ST. AIDAN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH, built in 1911, sat in the middle of a relatively dense and
highly desirable residential area in Brookline, Massachusetts. It was, among other things …

This article advances the concept of racialized legal status (RLS) as an overlooked
dimension of social stratification with implications for racial/ethnic health disparities. We …

Since 2013, protests opposing police violence against Black people have occurred across a
number of American cities under the banner of “Black Lives Matter.” We develop a new …

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 …

Research on incarceration has focused on prisons, but jail detention is far more common
than imprisonment. Jails are local institutions that detain people before trial or incarcerate …

In this article, we present the results from a large-scale field experiment designed to
measure racial discrimination among the American public. We conducted an audit study on …