Research


Publications


Conditions of confinement: Do harsher carceral environments reduce political participation? Conditionally accepted at Political Behavior.

Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success. 2024. Electoral Studies: 88:102759.

Race, religion, and death: How racial attitudes contextualize the relationship between religion and support for capital punishment. 2024. With Louis Chuang and Melissa Jones. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 63(3):656-674.

The Prison Bust: Declining carceral capacity in an era of mass incarceration. With Kaitlyn Sims, John Eason, Louis Chuang, Victoria Ylizaliturri, Isabel Anadon, and Erin Eife. 2023. Punishment & Society 26(2): 345-367.

Public responsiveness to declining crime rates in the United States and England and Wales. With Peter Enns, John Kenny, Andra Roescu, and Will Jennings. 2022. British Journal of Criminology 62(5): 1093-1115.

Religion, punitive sentiment, and the mediating effect of racial resentment. 2022. With Melissa Jones and Quin Monson. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 61(1):142-160.

Shaping youths perceptions and attitudes toward the police: Differences in direct and vicarious encounters with police. With Melissa Jones. Journal of Criminal Justice 67:101674.


Working Papers


Prison sentences have no discernible effect on turnout: Evidence from a natural experiment in North Carolina. Invited to revise and resubmit at Policy Studies Journal.

Excessive heat and correctional officer turnover: Evidence from Texas. With Benjamin Goehring.


In Progress


Misdemeanor convictions have enduring negative effects on voter turnout

No durable attitudinal effects of military service: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries. With Claudia Miner.

Convictions and reoffening: Evidence from Tampa Bay, Florida

The effect of criminal justice involvement on family relationships. With Kaitlyn Sims.

Contexts and policy levers in criminal record discrimination