A grim reminder this 4th of July: The US has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on Earth, making it a leader in mass incarceration.

Far too many people are locked up in the “land of the free.”

New paper: Wives with more education than husband are *more* likely to take his name than education-equal marriages.

As women outpace men in education & increasingly keep their names, name-taking provides symbolic way to compensate for her status superiority
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please just us on 5/13 @ 1pm ET for a panel on "How to Conference" sponsored by ASA's Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance! We have an amazing group of interdisciplinary scholars. Feel free to dm me for more info!

New article theorizing the “spatial burdens” of state institutions. Drawing on 125 interviews and over 400 hours of observations among court-involved people in the Bay Area, we show how space shapes poverty governance and institutional inequality.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

This book is powerful!

It reveals the experiences of mothers who fear CPS will take their children away, while also exploring why people report to CPS and the process of investigation.

Importantly, it highlights the problems with using CPS as a tool to address poverty. @kelleyfong.bsky.social

Check out @chiarapackard.bsky.social's thread for info on how to sign up for our discussion tomorrow on this amazing book by @kelleyfong.bsky.social!

Join LSA’s Punishment and Society Reading Group to discuss this book TOMORROW at 3pm ET.

Here’s the link to join our emailing list: forms.gle/MTkyDqWLm76c... @erineife.bsky.social

This book is powerful!

It reveals the experiences of mothers who fear CPS will take their children away, while also exploring why people report to CPS and the process of investigation.

Importantly, it highlights the problems with using CPS as a tool to address poverty. @kelleyfong.bsky.social

Join the Punishment & Society Reading Group this Friday, April 18th at 3 pm ET to discuss Investigating Families @kelleyfong.bsky.social ✨ We’re lucky that Dr. Fong will be joining the conversation!

DM me to subscribe to our mailing list and receive the Zoom link to join 📥 @erineife.bsky.social

Yearly reminder that you can get a free year of ASA membership if you got your Ph.D. within the last year! #SocAF

Columbia was first, but it seems very likely they're going to effectively use the same playback to retract federal scientific funding. A new hit list from Trump's Dept of Ed. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

It's #PiDay – which means it's time for our annual report, Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 🥧

Over the last year, US prisons & jails have locked up MORE people, growing the incarcerated population by 2%

But why? We answer that & bust the biggest myths of the carceral system🧵

I'm very confused. The university should not be requiring words be removed from article submissions. This infringes on academic freedom.

The new "banned words" apply to grants, regardless of the origin of the applicant. It shouldn't matter if you have an American co-author on your research paper.

Hello Bluesky! 👋 I finally made the move from X and I'm so happy to be here.

For those of you who don't know me, I'm a sociologist and ethnographer studying punishment, prosecutorial discretion, and inequality. I'm currently an asst prof of sociology and criminology at the University of Utah.