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Katherine Beckett. 2018. “The Politics, Peril and Promise of Criminal Justice Reform in theContext of Mass Incarceration.” Annual Review of Criminology 1: 235-59.
Katherine Beckett and Allison Goldberg. Prosecutor-Initiated Resentencing in Washington State. Seattle: University of Washington, 2024.
Gao, Elizabeth Lu. "Detention Corporations' Influence: Financial Contributions and Contracts Within Politics." University of Washington. Department of of Law, Societies, and Justice, 2023.
Jacobsen, Elise. "Racial Stereotypes and News Media: An Exploration of United States Drug History". University of Washington. Department of Law, Societies, and Justice, 2021.
Arzoo Osanloo. 2020. Forgiveness Work: Mercy, Law, and Victims' Rights in Iran. Princeton University Press.
“How States Justify Internment: The Case of Northern Ireland.” Sarah Dreier, Emily Gade, and Michael McCann. Funded by NSF grant. Planned submission to Law & Society Review, summer 2020.
Katherine Beckett and Marco Brydolf-Horwitz. 2020. “A Kinder, Gentler Drug War? Race, Drugs, and Punishment in 21st Century America.” Punishment and Society. DOI: 10.1177/1462474520925145
"Attitudes on the Gender of Rape Victims". Law, Societies, and Justice Honors Thesis, 2020.
Katherine Beckett. 2018. “Review Essay: Mass Incarceration and its Discontents.” ContemporarySociology: A Journal of Reviews 47, 1: 11-23 (January).
Katherine Beckett, Lindsey Beach, Anna Reosti and Emily Knaphus. 2018. “U.S. Criminal Justice Policy and Practice in the 21st Century: Toward the End of Mass Incarceration?” Law & Policy 40, 4: 321-45.