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Katherine Beckett is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within social sciences and health professions, with a significant focus on criminal justice and corrections analysis, homelessness and social issues, and crime patterns and interventions.

Their work integrates disciplines such as sociology and political science, general health professions, political science and international relations, epidemiology, and finance. The main topics covered include:

  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Policing Practices and Perceptions
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism

Katherine Beckett has published frequently in the following venues:

  • Law & Policy
  • Annual Review of Law and Social Science
  • Punishment & Society
  • Law & Social Inquiry
  • Crime and Justice

Notable recent papers include:

  • The Origins of Mass Incarceration: The Racial Politics of Crime and Punishment in the Post-Civil Rights Era (2020, Annual Review of Law and Social Science)
  • A kinder, gentler drug war? Race, drugs, and punishment in 21st century America (2020, Punishment & Society)
  • The Place of Punishment in Twenty-First-Century America: Understanding the Persistence of Mass Incarceration (2020, Law & Social Inquiry)
  • The Effects of Imprisonment in a Time of Mass Incarceration (2022, Crime and Justice)
  • Understanding the place of punishment: Disadvantage, politics, and the geography of imprisonment in 21st century America (2021, Law & Policy)

They have collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Marco Brydolf-Horwitz
  • Lindsey R. Beach
  • Megan Ming Francis
  • Allison Goldberg
  • Forrest Stuart

Katherine Beckett's interdisciplinary work addresses various dimensions of punishment, incarceration, and social disadvantage in contemporary American society. Their research examines the political, social, and spatial factors shaping mass incarceration, drug policy, and crime control, providing insights into the persistence of penal policies and their social consequences.

Best Publications

  • The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America

    Katherine Beckett;Theodore Sasson

  • Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics.

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

    Katherine Beckett;Bruce Western

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

    Bruce Western;Katherine Beckett

  • RACE, DRUGS, AND POLICING: UNDERSTANDING DISPARITIES IN DRUG DELIVERY ARRESTS*

    Katherine Beckett;Kris Nyrop;Lori Pfingst

  • Drawing Blood from Stones: Legal Debt and Social Inequality in the Contemporary United States

    Alexes Harris;Heather Evans;Katherine Beckett

  • Mapping the shadow carceral state: Toward an institutionally capacious approach to punishment

    Katherine Beckett;Naomi Murakawa

  • Banished: The New Social Control In Urban America

    Katherine Beckett;Steven Kelly Herbert

  • Drug Use, Drug Possession Arrests, and the Question of Race: Lessons from Seattle

    Katherine Beckett;Kris Nyrop;Lori Pfingst;Melissa Bowen

  • Dealing with disorder: social control in the post-industrial city

    Katherine Beckett;Steven Kelly Herbert

  • Banished

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  • Setting the public agenda: street crime' and drug use in American politics

    Katherine Beckett

  • On cash and conviction: monetary sanctions as misguided policy

    Katherine Beckett;Alexes Harris

  • Choosing Cesarean Feminism and the politics of childbirth in the United States

    Katherine Beckett

  • Culture and the Politics of Signification: The Case of Child Sexual Abuse

    Katherine Beckett

  • Courtesy Stigma and Monetary Sanctions Toward a Socio-Cultural Theory of Punishment

    Alexes Harris;Heather Evans;Katherine Beckett

  • Penal Boundaries: Banishment and the Expansion of Punishment

    Katherine Beckett;Steve Herbert

  • Making Crime Pay

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  • The Penology of Racial Innocence: The Erasure of Racism in the Study and Practice of Punishment

    Naomi Murakawa;Katherine Beckett

  • The End of an Era? Understanding the Contradictions of Criminal Justice Reform:

    Katherine Beckett;Anna Reosti;Emily Knaphus

  • Crimmigration at the Local Level: Criminal Justice Processes in the Shadow of Deportation

    Katherine Beckett;Heather Evans

  • Crime and Control in the Culture of Late Modernity@@@The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society@@@Crime and Social Change in Middle England: Questions of Order in an English Town

    Katherine Beckett;David Garland;Evi Girling;Ian Loader

  • The Politics, Promise, and Peril of Criminal Justice Reform in the Context of Mass Incarceration

    Katherine Beckett

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce Western
Bruce Western Columbia University
Ian Loader
Ian Loader University of Oxford
Richard Sparks
Richard Sparks University of Edinburgh
David Garland
David Garland New York University

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