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ARTICLES & OTHER MATERIALS

Select Peer-Reviewed Articles

2023. "The Ghosts Inside: The Historic Struggle to Reclassify Prison labor, 1967 - 1979." The Prison Journal.

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2023. "Remote Control: Horizontal Surveillance and the Gendering of Carceral Punishment." Theoretical Criminology.

 

2022. (With Andrew P. Davis; Eric Bjorklund; Teron Nunley) "Institutional Arrangements and Power Threat: Diversity, Democracy, and Punitive Attitudes." Justice Quarterly.

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2020. (With Josh Seim) "Punishing Fieldwork: Penal Domination and Prison Ethnography." Contemporary Ethnography.

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2020. "Sandpiles of Dignity: Labor Status and Boundary-Making in the Contemporary American Prison." RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.

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2020. (With Andrew P. Davis) "Difference and Punishment: Ethno-Political Exclusion, Colonial Institutional Legacies, and Incarceration." Punishment & Society.

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2018. "Ramen Politics: Informal Inmate Economy in the Contemporary American Prison." Qualitative Sociology (also available here).

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2017. "Classification Struggles in Semi-Formal and Precarious Work: Lessons from Inmate Labor and Cultural Production." Research in the Sociology of Work (also available here).

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2016. (With Ricardo Rivas) "Exploring Culture through In-Depth Interviews: Is it Useful to Ask People What They Think, Mean, and Do?" Cinta de Moebio.

Other Publications 

2023. "Book Review: Danielle S Rudes et al., Surviving Solitary: Living and Working in Restricted Housing Units." Punishment & Society.

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2022. "Book Review: Erin Hatton, Coerced: Worth Under Threat of Punishment." Punishment & Society.

 

2020. "Foreword." Pp. v-viii in The Pawn by Gustavo "Goose" Alvarez. Amazon.

 

2019. "Book Review: Bruce Western, Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison." International Sociology.

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2019. "The Prison as Market: How Penal Labor Systems Reproduce Inequality." PhD Dissertation, University of Arizona.

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2015. (With Kyle Puetz) "Authenticity." In the Sage Encyclopedia of Economics and Society.

 

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Research Materials

Sample Qualitative Coding Report: Doctoral Dissertation Research: Punishment and Work in the US Prison System, Interview Coding Scheme.

“The function of sociology,
as of every science, is to reveal
that which is hidden

- Pierre Bourdieu -

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