Books and Edited Volumes
The Criminal Justice System as a Labor Market Institution, co-editor (with Jonathan Simon), RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 6(1), Mar 2020. https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/6/1.
Lone Pursuit: Distrust and Defensive Individualism among the Black Poor. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007.
Selected Articles and Chapters
“Exploring the Causal Mechanisms Linking Pretrial Detention and Future Criminal Justice Involvement,” pp. 88-109 in the The Handbook on Pretrial Justice (with Cathy Hu), DCS Handbook on Corrections & Sentencing, Volume 6 (Pretrial Justice), edited by Jennifer Copp, Stephen DeMuth, and Christine Scott-Hayward, 2021.
“Using Social and Behavioural Science to Support COVID-19 Pandemic Response” (with Van Bavel, J. J., Baicker, K., Boggio, P. S., Capraro, V., Cichocka, A., Cikara, M., Crockett, M. J., Crum, A. J., Douglas, K. M., Druckman, J. N. Drury, J., Dube, O., Ellemers, N., Finkel, E. J., Fowler, J. H., Gelfand, M., Han, S., Haslam, S. A., Jetten, J., Kitayama, S., Mobbs, D., Napper, L. E., Packer, D. J., Pennycook, G., Peters, E., Petty, R. E., Rand, D. G., Reicher, S. D., Schnall, S., Shariff, A., Skitka, L. J., Smith, S. S., Sunstein, C. R., Tabri, N., Tucker, J. A., van der Linden, S., Van Lange, P. A. M., Weeden, K. A., Wohl, M. J. A., Zaki, J., Zion, S. & Willer, R.), Nature Human Behaviour, www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0884-z, 2020.
“Searching for Work with a Criminal Record” (with Nora Broege), Social Problems 67.2 (May 2020): 208-232.
“Self-Verification, Trust, and Social Capital Mobilization” (with Jasmine Sanders), In Personal Networks: Classic Readings and New Directions, edited by Brea L. Perry, Bernice Pescosolido, Mario L. Small, and Ned Smith, 2020.
“Exclusion and Extraction: Criminal Justice Contact and the Reallocation of Labor” (with Jonathan Simon), RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 6 (1) 1-27, March 2020.
“‘Change’ Frames and the Mobilization of Social Capital for Formerly Incarcerated Job Seekers.” DuBois Review. 15(2): 387–416, 2018.
Shackled to Debt: Criminal Justice Financial Obligations and the Barriers to Re-Entry They Create. New Thinking in Community Corrections Bulletin(with Karin D. Martin and Wendy Still), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 2017. NCJ 249976, 2017.
“Want, Need, Fit: Logics of Assistance and the Job-Matching Process,” (with Kara A. Young), Work and Occupations. 44(2): 171-209, 2016.
“Race and Trust.” Annual Review of Sociology 36: 453-75, 2010.
“‘Don’t put my name on it’: (Dis)Trust and Job-Finding Assistance among the Black Urban Poor.” American Journal of Sociology 111(1):1-57, 2005. Lead Article.
Working Papers and Policy Briefs
"Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Social Costs of Pretrial Electronic Monitoring in San Francisco." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP22-014, September 2022. (with Cierra Robson)
Pretrial Detention, Pretrial Release & Public Safety. Arnold Ventures Public Safety Series Discussion Paper, July 2022.
“The Limits of Ban-the-Box Legislation,” with Christopher Herring, Policy Brief: Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, 2022.
The Current State of Bail Reform in the United States: Results of a Landscape Analysis of Bail Reforms Across All 50 States. HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series, December 2021 (with Isabella Jorgensen as first author).
Commentary
“It’s time for Massachusetts to eliminate cash bail: Reforms in criminal justice reform law didn’t go far enough,” with Isabella Jorgensen, Commonwealth Magazine, April 30, 2022.
“What happens when jurors are disproportionately white? Not justice,” with Geraldine S. Hines and Nina Chernoff, The Boson Globe, April 12, 2022.
“SJC takes big step backward on racial justice,” with Deborah Ramirez, Commonwealth Magazine, February 13, 2022.
“Boston’s gang database should be dismantled,” with Felix Yaw Owusu and Stacey Borden, The Boston Globe, January 31, 2022.
“We’ve seen these proposed Boston police reforms before — they don’t work.” The Boston Globe, October 16, 2020.
“The Massachusetts Bail Fund is on the right side of the law — and justice.” The Boston Globe, August 18, 2020.