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Bernard E. Harcourt

Bernard E. Harcourt

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Law
USA
2023

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Law

D-Index
45
Citations
11430
World Ranking
78
National Ranking
63

Political Science

D-Index
45
Citations
11433
World Ranking
341
National Ranking
196

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award

Overview

Bernard E. Harcourt is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and specializes in social sciences, with a focus on sociology and political science, as well as philosophy, religious studies, history, and pathology and forensic medicine. Their work addresses key themes such as Foucault, power, and ethics; critical theory and philosophy; political theology and sovereignty; criminal justice and corrections analysis; Augustinian studies and theology; biblical studies and interpretation; and reformation and early modern Christianity.

They have published extensively in journals and venues including the SSRN Electronic Journal, Foucault Studies, Champ pénal, Contemporary Political Theory, and Critical Inquiry.

  • Foucault's Keystone: Confessions of the Flesh (2021), Foucault Studies
  • Five Modalities of Michel Foucault's Use of Nietzsche's Writings (1959-73): Critical, Epistemological, Linguistic, Alethurgic and Political (2021), Theory Culture & Society
  • On Critical Genealogy (2024), Contemporary Political Theory
  • On Cooperationism: An End to the Economic Plague (2020), Critical Inquiry
  • On Critical Genealogy: An Answer to the Question "What Good Is Genealogy for Praxis?" (2022), SSRN Electronic Journal

The scholar has collaborated with a number of frequent co-authors, including Clécio Lemos, François Ewald, Warren Montag, Bruce Robbins, and Stathis Gourgouris.

Among their book publications, there is one titled Cooperation, published by Columbia University Press in 2023, which has been cited multiple times.

Best Publications

  • Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • Broken Windows: New Evidence from New York City and a Five-City Social Experiment

    Bernard E. Harcourt;Jens Ludwig

  • The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • Reflecting on the Subject: A Critique of the Social Influence Conception of Deterrence, the Broken Windows Theory, and Order-Maintenance Policing New York Style

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • The Collapse of the Harm Principle

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • Rethinking Racial Profiling: A Critique of the Economics, Civil Liberties, and Constitutional Literature, and of Criminal Profiling More Generally

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • Risk as a Proxy for Race: The Dangers of Risk Assessment

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • From the Asylum to the Prison: Rethinking the Incarceration Revolution

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • The Punitive Society: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1972-1973

    Michel Foucault;Bernard E. Harcourt;François Ewald;Alessandro Fontana

  • Muslim Profiles Post 9/11: Is Racial Profiling an Effective Counterterrorist Measure and Does It Violate the Right to Be Free from Discrimination?

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • Reefer Madness: Broken Windows Policing and Misdemeanor Marijuana Arrests in New York City, 1989-2000

    Bernard E. Harcourt;Jens Ludwig;Jens Ludwig;Jens Ludwig

  • Beccaria's 'On Crimes and Punishments': A Mirror on the History of the Foundations of Modern Criminal Law

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • Neoliberal Penality: A Brief Genealogy

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • Becker on Ewald on Foucault on Becker American Neoliberalism and Michel Foucault's 1979 'Birth of Biopolitics' Lectures

    Gary S. Becker;François Ewald;Bernard E. Harcourt

  • Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • Transparent Adjudication and Social Science Research in Constitutional Criminal Procedure

    Tracey L. Meares;Bernard E. Harcourt

  • Reducing Mass Incarceration: Lessons from the Deinstitutionalization of Mental Hospitals in the 1960s

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • Unconstitutional Police Searches and Collective Responsibility

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • Embracing Chance: Post-Modern Meditations on Punishment

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • From the Asylum to the Prison: Rethinking the Incarceration Revolution. Part II: State Level Analysis

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • 'You Are Entering a Gay- and Lesbian-Free Zone': On the Radical Dissents of Justice Scalia and Other (Post-) Queers

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • Should We Aggreegate Mental Hospitalization and Prison Population Rates in Empirical Research on the Relationship between Incarceration and Crime, Unemployment, Poverty and Other Social Indicators?

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • 'Becker and Foucault on Crime and Punishment': A Conversation with Gary Becker, François Ewald, and Bernard Harcourt: The Second Session

    Gary S. Becker;François Ewald;Bernard E. Harcourt

  • Neoliberal Penality: The Birth of Natural Order, the Illusion of Free Markets

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • Risk as a Proxy for Race

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • Broken Windows: New Evidence from New York City and a Five-City Social Experiment

    Bernard E. Harcourt;Jens Ludwig;Jens Ludwig;Jens Ludwig

  • Beccaria’s On Crimes and Punishments:

    Bernard E Harcourt

  • A Reader’s Companion to Against Prediction: A Reply to Ariela Gross, Yoram Margalioth, and Yoav Sapir

    Bernard E. Harcourt

  • Reefer Madness: Broken Windows Policing and Misdemeanor Marijuana Arrests in New York

    Bernard E. Harcourt;Jens Ludwig

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens Ludwig
Jens Ludwig University of Chicago
Gary S. Becker
Gary S. Becker University of Chicago
Mary Bosworth
Mary Bosworth University of Oxford
Didier Fassin
Didier Fassin Institute for Advanced Study
Franklin E. Zimring
Franklin E. Zimring University of California, Berkeley

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