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62
Citations
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World Ranking
1225
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570

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2005 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Bruce Western is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has concentrated their research on topics intersecting criminal justice, social issues, and psychology. Their scholarly output spans numerous influential publications and collaborations with multiple coauthors.

Their recent papers include: "Criminalizing Poverty: The Consequences of Court Fees in a Randomized Experiment" (2022, American Sociological Review), "COVID-19, Decarceration, and the Role of Clinicians, Health Systems, and Payers" (2020, JAMA), "The cumulative risk of jail incarceration" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), "Inside the Box: Safety, Health, and Isolation in Prison" (2021, The Journal of Economic Perspectives), and "The population prevalence of solitary confinement" (2021, Science Advances).

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Jessica T. Simes
  • Devah Pager
  • Rebecca Goldstein
  • Helen Ho
  • Hannah Pullen-Blasnik

The most frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • American Sociological Review
  • JAMA
  • The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • Science Advances

Bruce Western's research primarily addresses topics within:

  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices

Their fields of study cover broad Social Sciences and Psychology categories, with subfield emphases in Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology, Economics and Econometrics, and Social Psychology.

Bruce Western has contributed to academic literature through book publication, notably "Between Class and Market" (2020) published by Princeton University Press.

The scientist has been recognized with several awards and honors, including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2020)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2015)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2005)

Best Publications

  • Punishment and inequality in America

    Bruce Western

  • Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration:

    Becky Pettit;Bruce Western

  • The growth of incarceration in the United States: exploring causes and consequences

    Jeremy Travis;Bruce Western;F. Stevens Redburn

  • Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment

    Devah Pager;Bruce Western;Bart Bonikowski

  • The Impact of Incarceration on Wage Mobility and Inequality

    Bruce Western

  • Inequality in earnings at the close of the twentieth century

    Martina Morris;Bruce Western

  • Incarceration & social inequality

    Bruce Western;Becky Pettit

  • Unions, Norms, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality

    Bruce Western;Jake Rosenfeld

  • The Labor Market Consequences of Incarceration

    Bruce Western;Jeffrey R. Kling;David F. Weiman

  • The Black Family and Mass Incarceration

    Bruce Western;Christopher Wildeman

  • Between Class and Market: Postwar Unionization in the Capitalist Democracies

    Bruce Western

  • Governing Social Marginality Welfare, Incarceration, and the Transformation of State Policy

    Katherine Beckett;Bruce Western

  • Sequencing Disadvantage: Barriers to Employment Facing Young Black and White Men with Criminal Records

    Devah Pager;Bruce Western;Naomi Sugie

  • How Unregulated Is the U.S. Labor Market? The Penal System as a Labor Market Institution1

    Bruce Western;Katherine Beckett

  • Stress and Hardship after Prison.

    Bruce Western;Anthony A. Braga;Jaclyn Davis;Catherine Sirois

  • Incarceration and the Formation and Stability of Marital Unions

    Leonard M. Lopoo;Bruce Western

  • Black-white wage inequality, employment rates, and incarceration

    Bruce Western;Becky Pettit

  • The Deterrent Effect of Arrest in Incidents of Domestic Violence: A Bayesian Analysis of Four Field Experiments

    Richard A. Berk;Alec Campbell;Ruth Klap;Bruce Western

  • Incarceration in fragile families.

    Christopher Wildeman;Bruce Western

  • Paternal Incarceration and Support for Children in Fragile Families

    Amanda Geller;Irwin Garfinkel;Bruce Western

  • Economic Insecurity and Social Stratification

    Bruce Western;Deirdre Bloome;Benjamin Sosnaud;Laura Tach

  • Imprisoning America : the social effects of mass incarceration

    Mary Pattillo;Bruce Western;David Weiman

  • Inequality among American Families with Children, 1975 to 2005

    Bruce Western;Deirdre Bloome;Christine Percheski

  • The Radical Right in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis.

    Bruce Western;Herbert Kitschelt;Anthony J. McGann

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard A. Berk
Richard A. Berk University of Pennsylvania
Christopher Wildeman
Christopher Wildeman Duke University
Irwin Garfinkel
Irwin Garfinkel Columbia University
Anthony A. Braga
Anthony A. Braga University of Pennsylvania
Jeffrey R. Kling
Jeffrey R. Kling National Bureau of Economic Research
Jeff Manza
Jeff Manza New York University
Christopher Winship
Christopher Winship Harvard University
Martina Morris
Martina Morris University of Washington
Duncan Gallie
Duncan Gallie University of Oxford
Craig Haney
Craig Haney University of California, Santa Cruz

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