“In Palestine, some 87,000 students have suffered a near total disruption of their studies for the duration of the genocide, and more than 1200 have been killed. Upwards of 200 academic staff have…

Abstract. Cities across the United States are experimenting with civilian-led alternatives to policing, yet rigorous evidence of their effectiveness remain

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of City & Community, the Editors-in-Chief are pleased to announce a one-day conference to be held at Georgetown University on April 23, 2027. The conference will sh...

Past research documents disparities in which homicides receive news coverage and how victims are portrayed, yet the organizational processes producing these patterns remain understudied. This paper a...

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Associate Professor Matt Clair has been awarded the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award, recognizing his outstanding scholarship and significant contributions to the study of inequality, poverty,...

“I am an observer of how intellectual ideas travel and enter into everyday life, or how they come to be performed by families in ways that give those ideas a reality of their own.”

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...

The decimation of democratic processes that undergird state-sponsored research may be ultimately more consequential than funding cuts.

In Becoming an Abolitionist, Derecka Purnell examines how one cannot separate putting an end to policing from broader struggles for freedom.

2026 AM: 2025 C. Wright Mills Finalists

Elite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people.

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...

Matthew Clair, Jesus Orozco, & Iris H. Zhang, Spatial Burdens of State Institutions: The Case of Criminal Courthouses, 99 Soc. Serv. Rev. 201 (2025).Jonathan SimonIn Franz Kafka’s haunting short story...

Its 65th anniversary conference addressed criminal justice, inequality, democracy and civil society, and lessons for and from the legal profession.

An interview with sociologist Asef Bayat on the U.S.-Israeli war, democratic opposition to the Islamic Republic, and the country’s uncertain future.

The Projects and Proposals Committee of the American Society for Legal History invites proposals for the funding of new initiatives in the study, presentation, and production of legal historical schol...