Poverty

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

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Related Research

Almquist, Z. W., I. Kahveci, A. Hazel, O. Kajfasz, J. Rothfolk, C. Guilmette, M. Anderson, L. Ozeryansky, and A. Hagopian (2024). Innovating a Community-driven Enumeration and Needs Assessment of People Experiencing Homelessness: A Network Sampling Approach for the HUD-Mandated Point-in-Time Count. American Journal of Epidemiology.
Doré R. LaForett, Dana Thomson & Jessica Warren. 2023. Head Start’s Family Services: Promoting the Outcomes of Low-Income Children and Families, Early Education and Development, DOI: 10.1080/10409289.2023.2221768
Katherine Beckett. 2023. “Diversion and/as Decarceration.” Law and Contemporary Problems 86: 103-124.
Spring, Amy, Elizabeth Ackert, Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, and Kyle Crowder. 2023. “Keeping Kin Close? Geographies of Family Networks by Race and Income, 1981-2017" Journal of Marriage and Family http://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12911.
Collins, D., Beckett, K., & Brydolf-Horwitz, M. (2022). Pandemic Poverty Governance: Neoliberalism under Crisis. City & Community. https://doi.org/10.1177/15356841221140078
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.
Fan, Xinguang. 2020. "Economic Insecurity in China: Analyses of Family Economic Resources and Income Instability." Ph.D. Dissertation, 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.