Publications
Conditions of confinement: Do harsher carceral environments reduce political participation? 2026. Advance online publication 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. Revised and resubmitted at Policy Studies Journal.
Excessive heat and correctional officer turnover: Evidence from Texas. With Benjamin Goehring. Revised and resubmitted at Public Administration Review.
No durable effects of military service on social attitudes: Evidence from the Vietnam draft lotteries (with Claudia Miner). Invited to revise and resubmit at Public Opinion Quarterly.
In Progress
Misdemeanor convictions have enduring negative effects on voter turnout
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
Jacob Harris 