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Katherine Beckett

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Katherine Beckett's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Katherine Beckett is an American sociologist known for researching the United States criminal justice system. She is a professor in the University of Washington's Law, Societies & Justice Program, as well as in the Department of Sociology there. She previously taught at Indiana University.

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Katherine Beckett's Published Works

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Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics. (1997) (767)
The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America (1999) (452)
How Unregulated Is the U.S. Labor Market? The Penal System as a Labor Market Institution (1999) (430)
Governing Social Marginality (2001) (378)
RACE, DRUGS, AND POLICING: UNDERSTANDING DISPARITIES IN DRUG DELIVERY ARRESTS* (2006) (356)
Drawing Blood from Stones: Legal Debt and Social Inequality in the Contemporary United States1 (2010) (282)
Mapping the shadow carceral state: Toward an institutionally capacious approach to punishment (2012) (222)
Drug Use, Drug Possession Arrests, and the Question of Race: Lessons from Seattle (2005) (215)
Power, Politics, and Crime (1999) (178)
Setting the public agenda: street crime' and drug use in American politics (1994) (171)
Dealing with disorder (2008) (158)
Penal Boundaries: Banishment and the Expansion of Punishment (2010) (114)
Culture and the Politics of Signification: The Case of Child Sexual Abuse (1996) (112)
On cash and conviction: monetary sanctions as misguided policy (2011) (107)
Choosing Cesarean (2005) (105)
Banished: The New Social Control In Urban America (2009) (92)
The penology of racial innocence: the erasure of racism in the study and practice of punishment. (2010) (84)
Courtesy Stigma and Monetary Sanctions (2011) (76)
Crimmigration at the Local Level: Criminal Justice Processes in the Shadow of Deportation (2015) (56)
Securing the Global City: Crime, Consulting, Risk, and Ratings in the Production of Urban Space (2008) (49)
Challenging Medicine: Law, Resistance, and the Cultural Politics of Childbirth (2005) (48)
Crime and Control in the Culture of Late Modernity@@@The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society@@@Crime and Social Change in Middle England: Questions of Order in an English Town (2001) (47)
The End of an Era? Understanding the Contradictions of Criminal Justice Reform (2016) (45)
The Politics, Promise, and Peril of Criminal Justice Reform in the Context of Mass Incarceration (2018) (45)
Democracy and its Discontents (2008) (40)
‘This is home for us’: questioning banishment from the ground up (2010) (33)
Policing Social Marginality: Contrasting Approaches (2018) (31)
A Tale of Two Cities: A Comparative Analysis of Quality of Life Initiatives in New York and Bogotá (2010) (28)
Power, politics, and penality: Punitiveness as backlash in American democracies (2008) (27)
The Uses and Abuses of Police Discretion: Toward Harm Reduction Policing (2016) (23)
US Criminal Justice Policy and Practice in the Twenty‐First Century: Toward the End of Mass Incarceration? (2018) (23)
The War on Crime as Hegemonic Strategy: A Neo-Marxian Theory of the New Punitiveness in U.S. Criminal Justice Policy (2000) (19)
Fetal rights and “crack moms”: pregnant women in the war on drugs (1995) (19)
Zoning out disorder: assessing contemporary practices of urban social control (2009) (15)
Social control in the post-industrial city (2008) (14)
Race, Drugs, and Law Enforcement (2012) (13)
The Place of Punishment in Twenty-First-Century America: Understanding the Persistence of Mass Incarceration (2020) (10)
Speaking of Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice. By Lawrence M. Solan and Peter M. Tiersma (2006) (10)
A kinder, gentler drug war? Race, drugs, and punishment in 21st century America (2020) (9)
Banishment and the Post-Industrial City: Lessons from Seattle (2017) (9)
The Origins of Mass Incarceration: The Racial Politics of Crime and Punishment in the Post–Civil Rights Era (2020) (8)
Collateral Consequences: County-Level Variation in the Assessment of Legal Financial Obligations in Washington State (2008) (5)
Policing Methamphetamine: Narcopolitics in Rural America (2012) (5)
The Role of Race in Washington State Capital Sentencing, 1981-2014 (2014) (5)
Crime, Politics and the Public: The Sources of Mass Incarceration in the U.S.A. (課題研究日本の治安と犯罪対策--犯罪学からの提言) (2004) (5)
Addressing Urban Disorder without Police: How Seattle's LEAD Program Responds to Behavioral‐Health‐Related Disruptions, Resolves Business Complaints, and Reconfigures the Field of Public Safety (2021) (4)
RACE AND DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT IN SEATTLE Prepared on behalf of the Defender Association’s Racial Disparity Project Seattle, Washington by (2004) (4)
Black and Blue (2015) (4)
Welfare, Punishment, and Social Marginality: Understanding the Connections (2021) (3)
The Effects of Imprisonment in a Time of Mass Incarceration (2022) (3)
Mass Incarceration and Its Discontents (2018) (3)
Ending Mass Incarceration (2022) (2)
Race, Death, and Justice: Capital Sentencing in Washington State, 1981-2014 (2016) (2)
IMMIGRATION DETAINER REQUESTS IN KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON Costs and Consequences (2013) (1)
Consolidated environmental regulation in West Virginia (1995) (1)
The Culture of Control Revisited (2020) (1)
Drugs, Data, Race and Reaction: A Field Report (2008) (1)
Crime Control, American Style (2020) (1)
Acknowledgments to Referees (2017) (0)
Reimagining Public Safety (2022) (0)
Violence and Restorative Justice (2022) (0)
Arresting Images: Crime and Policing in Front of the Television Camera (2005) (0)
Banishment and the Post-Industrial City: Lessons from Seattle (2016) (0)
The End of Mass Incarceration? Mapping the Contradictions of Criminal Justice Policy and Practice (2016) (0)
Review of Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World (2020) (0)
Voices of the Banished (2009) (0)
Acknowledgments to referees (1982) (0)
Pandemic Poverty Governance: Neoliberalism under Crisis (2022) (0)
End Excessive Sentencing (2022) (0)
The Downtown Area of Jonestown, Texas. (2014) (0)
Understanding Legal Financial Obligations: The Monetary Penalties Associated with Criminal Conviction (2007) (0)
approach to punishment Mapping the shadow carceral state : Toward an institutionally capacious (2012) (0)
Civil Liberties and Research on the Effects of Pornography (2019) (0)
Banishment’s Reemergence (2009) (0)
York and Bogotá A Tale of Two Cities: A Comparative Analysis of Quality of Life Initiatives in New (2010) (0)
Home > Weighing in on Inequality: Obesity among Low and High SES Children WEIGHING IN ON INEQUALITY: OBESITY AMONG LOW AND HIGH SES CHILDREN (2020) (0)
The Social Geographies of Banishment (2009) (0)
Banishment and the Criminal Justice System (2009) (0)
The Place of Punishment (2022) (0)
Understanding the place of punishment: Disadvantage, politics, and the geography of imprisonment in 21st century America (2021) (0)
Rethinking Drug Policy (2022) (0)
The Politics of Violence (2022) (0)
Monetary Sanctions: Toward a Socio-Cultural Theory of (2016) (0)
In and Beyond Misdemeanorland (2019) (0)
Direct regulation for the public’s health and safety (2018) (0)
Managing the Neoliberal City (2014) (0)
6. Direct Regulation for the Public’s Health and Safety (2019) (0)
Crime, Politics and the Public (Symposium: Rising Fear of Crime and Re-building Safe Society in Japan: Moral Panic or Evidence-Based Crime Control) (2004) (0)
Index to Volume 115 (2010) (0)
The Limits of Recent Drug Policy Reforms (2022) (0)
Jonestown Quadruple Net Value Report- The WOW Factor (2014) (0)
Toward Banishment: The Transformation of Urban Social Control (2009) (0)
Introduction (2022) (0)

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