I posted a comment on Rubin's Theory & Society article, "Normativity is not a replacement for theory" in @socarxiv.bsky.social. The theory, that activism-motivated scholars caused the decline in theory, is unsupported by the evidence and fails on its own terms. Download here: osf.io/fyvdr_v1/dow...
@socprobsjournal.bsky.social featured me on “The Author’s Attic” to summarize this article! It feels cringe for me to watch it 😅, but if you want to learn more, by all means, check it out ☺️
"The Author's Attic" with Faith Deckard youtu.be/6elFmh2LjbM?si… via @YouTube
Hahaa, that’s hilarious 😂😂. No slick comeback
Learning about Josh Page’s work was a pivotal moment in my academic career. He certainly made me wait for the book 😅😅😂, but the timing also couldn’t be better. Kuddosss legend-turned-friend @joshpage.bsky.social
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3) Advocacy can decrease the probability of negative mental health reports among Black women who have been stopped by the police (advocacy moderates the negative association between police stops and mental health).
For more, read the article 😊 (4/4)
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When we link this extended notion of police contact to health we find:
1) Preparation is the most commonly reported form of contact and is negatively associated with mental health.
2) Advocacy is positively associated with mental health. (3/4)
or a “constellation of contact-inspired events that, through their connectivity, disrupt temporal bonds and construct police contact as an ongoing phenomenon.”
For Black women this includes direct interaction with officers (i.e., police stops) and PREPARATION and ADVOCACY (2/4)
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In this article, my friend-colleagues and I suggest that rather than thinking about police contact as direct officer-civilian interactions (temporally constrained), we might view and measure it as PERPETUAL (1/4)
Congrats to our Honorable Mentions! bit.ly/LSAAwards2025
Iván Vargas-Roncancio, YorkU: Jacob Book Prize
@yuvrajjoshi.bsky.social, @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social: Article Prize
@faithmdeckard.com, UCLA: Dissertation Prize
@gperrone.bsky.social, @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social: Franklin Prize
It’s coming ☺️☺️🤭🤭
Favorite project to date
Thank you Josh! Page and Deckard collab coming sooooonnnnnn
4) The concept of profitable subjects also demonstrates how social constructions structure access to resources and perpetuate inequality within criminal legal processing.
3) Agents’ deployment of marking and surveillance reveals the construction of PROFITABLE SUBJECTS -people (re)identified as future assets. It differs from other neoliberal constructions because it is legible enough for stratification but something that must be repeatedly achieved.
This is noteworthy because in commercial bail a dominate perception is that defendants are liabilities. Consequently, almost no one can opt out of surveillance (not even those who paid in full or showed prior compliance) because a “profitable” status must be continuously proved.
2) How a defendant is marked shapes what “classification situation” they find themselves in, such as what type of surveillance they will endure and with what associated level of hassle.
1. I find that: 1) Bail agents mark defendants as profitable or less-profitable, which creates “new” categories of difference to stratify upon. This is interesting because framing defendants in terms of profit can “riskify” in ways that counter traditional legal understandings.
In this article I ask: 1) How do criminal legal techniques change when private actors (like bail agents) administer them? 2) What do these changes reveal about the construction and processing of system-involved people?
🚨New Pub in Theoretical Criminology. Some welcomed news amidst the fire crisis in LA and a reminder to be continuously grateful for the privilege of living and doing what I love.
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First page of PDF of journal article titled "The Family Policing Industrial Complex: The Shadow Carceral State in Sites Intended for the Support of Families." By Brittany Pearl Battle (wake forest university), Marleina Ubel (New Jersey Policy Perspective), and Lenna Nepomnyaschy (Rutgers University). Published in Theoretical Criminology, Vol 28, Issue 4, pages 516-533.
🚨 New pub alert 🚨
Theorizing the neoliberal political economies across sites of family policing, including the child support enforcement & immigration systems, as a family policing industrial complex.
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“I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”
This was probably my most viral tweet. I've seen it pop up in a lot of quote aggregators, sometimes attributed to a wonderful but definitely not-me filmmaker.
Oops! Embarrassing.I actually think I am included.
Really appreciate your responsiveness though 😊😊😊
Yay! My people! Could I be added to this pack ?
I created a starter pack for Sociologists/Social Scientists of Punishment. Please share and let me know if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/CpCJb3J