Law and Society

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Katherine Beckett
S. Frank Miyamoto Professor of Sociology
Chair, Department of Law, Societies and Justice
Ann Frost
Associate Teaching Professor
Theresa Rocha Beardall
Assistant Professor

Latest News

Liz Litzler nominated for Equity & Inclusion Distinguished Staff Award (February 21, 2024)
Alexes Harris in the LA Times and on NPR (May 19, 2014)
Pettit to Speak at White House Conference (August 7, 2013)

Related Research

Rocha Beardall, Theresa. 2022. "Police Legitimacy Regimes and the Suppression of Citizen Oversight in Response to Police Violence." Criminology. 60(4):1-26.
Rocha Beardall, Theresa. 2022. “Settler Simultaneity and Anti-Indigenous Racism at Land-Grant Universities.”Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 8(1):197-212.
Rocha Beardall, Theresa. 2021. “Sovereignty Threat: Loreal Tsingine, Policing, and the Intersectionality of Indigenous Death.” Nevada Law Journal. 21(3):1025-1060.
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.
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.
McGlynn-Wright, Anne. 2019. "Farm Bill to Table: Pregnancy and the Politics of Food Assistance." Ph.D. Dissertation, 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.
Beckett, Katherine, Lindsey R. Beach, Emily Knaphus, Anna Reosti. 2018. "US Criminal Justice Policy and Practice in the Twenty‐first Century: Toward the End of Mass Incarceration?" Law & Policy 40(4):321-345.