Criminal Law and Punishment

Related Faculty

Katherine Beckett
S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology
Chair, Department of Law, Societies and Justice

Related Research

Rocha Beardall, Theresa. 2023. “Abolition as Praxis and Virtual Community Based Learning.” Teaching Sociology. 51(1):79-91.
Katherine Beckett. 2023. “Diversion and/as Decarceration.” Law and Contemporary Problems 86: 103-124.
Katherine Beckett and Allison Goldberg. 2022. “The Impact of Imprisonment in a Time of MassIncarceration.” Crime and Justice: Prisons and Prisoner 51: 349-398, edited by Michael Tonry andSandra Bucerius (University of Chicago Press).
Marco Brydolf-Horwitz and Katherine Beckett. 2021. “Welfare, Punishment and Social Marginality: Understanding the Connections.” Research in Political Sociology, Volume 28 (The Politics of Inequality, edited by David Pettinicchio), pp. 91-111.
Katherine Beckett and Lindsey Beach. 2021. “Understanding the Place of Punishment: Disadvantage, Politics and the Geography of Imprisonment in 21st Century America.” Law & Policy 43: 5-29.
Katherine Beckett and Lindsey Beach. 2021. “The Place of Punishment in 21st Century America: Understanding the Persistence of Mass Incarceration.” Law and Social Inquiry 46, 1: 1-31.
Katherine Beckett and Megan Ming Francis. 2020. “The Origins of Mass Incarceration: The Racial Politics of Crime and Punishment in the Post-Civil Rights Era.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 16: 433–52.
Katherine Beckett and Marco Brydolf-Horwitz. “A Kinder, Gentler Drug War? Race, Drugs, and Punishment in 21st Century America.” Punishment and Society 22, 4: 509-33.
Smith, Tyler. 2020. "The Net of Privatized Punishment: Examining the Use of Private Probation in Colorado." M.A. Thesis. Department of Sociology, University of Washington.
Gomez Baeza, Francisca. 2019. "Sociodemographic Differentials in Support for Legal and Extra-Legal Punitive Practices in Santiago, Chile." M.A. Thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Washington.