This article reviews cultural sociological approaches to law and considers how they may sharpen analysis of social crises. As the United States faces myriad law-related crises, such as rising authorit...

As of today, I am an Associate Professor of Sociology—with tenure! (For the non-academic folks: tenure is a major career milestone that grants permanent job security. It protects scholars from politi...

This article outlines a relational theory of legal inequality through a review of recent studies of crime, law, and deviance. I argue that three relational mechanisms—claims-making, social closure, a...

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The city says it won’t lend this tool to ICE for surveillance. But a state law requires that local officials assist ICE, and New Orleans also wants to end a court order restricting compliance.

For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other item has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.

Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family As a young photojournalist living in Gaza, Fatima Hassouna knew that death was always at her doorstep. As she spent the past 18 months of war documenting airstrikes, the demolition of her home, the endless displacement and the killing of 11 family members, all she demanded was that she not be allowed to go quietly. “If I die, I want a loud death,” Hassouna wrote on social media. “I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear, an impact that will remain through time, and a timeless image that cannot be buried by time or place.” Continue reading...

Enrollment in the 287(g) program, which deputizes local police to do federal immigration enforcement, has exploded in recent weeks—but the administration has been surprisingly silent.

The agreement is a major departure from the Internal Revenue Service’s efforts to gain the trust of migrants and encourage them to file their taxes.

Spatial and temporal contexts of formal social control and system involvement: U.S. Latinos under immigration policing - Volume 59 Issue 1

In 1996, Congress passed a law giving the federal government the power to declare an emergency relating to a “mass influx” of migrants. When this emergency provision is enacted, the government can bot...

Segmented assimilation in its current U.S.-centric incarnation is more valuable as a sensitizing concept that suggests where analysts should look rather than as a transportable causal theory of int...

New legislation would hand state attorneys general veto power over large swaths of federal immigration policy.

The national context of deportation threat, defined as the federal government’s approach to deportation and/or deportation’s salience to the US pub...

With their scolding and posturing, self-described “pragmatists” are mimicking the far-right’s well-worn playbook of scapegoating marginalized people to evade responsibility for charting a visionary pa...

How everyday forms of surveillance threaten undocumented immigrants—but also offer them hope for societal inclusion

We explore who may be most likely to be targeted and the potential roadblocks to the Trump administration’s mass deportations next year.

How big will the Trump administration will go, and how quickly?

How the attorney-client relationship favors the privileged in criminal court—and denies justice to the poor and to working-class people of color

Abstract. Recent research suggests that college-educated young adults, especially those who are politically liberal and/or racially marginalized, exhibit m