Publications

Author/Title Research Type Related Fields
Katherine Beckett and Allison Goldberg. Prosecutor-Initiated Resentencing in Washington State. Seattle: University of Washington, 2024. Publications, Reports Civil Rights, Crime and Criminality, Human Rights, Incarceration, Justice, Law, Public Scholarship, Punishment, Social Change, Social Justice
Michael McCann and Filiz Kahraman, “The Interdependence of Authoritarian and Liberal Legalities in Racial Capitalist Regimes.” With Filiz Kahraman. Article solicited for Annual Review of Law and Social Science. 2021. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters African American, American Indian/Native American, Critical Theory, Immigration, Incarceration, Justice, Political Economy, Punishment
“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. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Activism, Civil Rights, Comparative Law, Crime and Criminality, Critical Theory, Incarceration, Justice, Punishment
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 Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Crime and Criminality, Incarceration, Justice, Law, Punishment
Katherine Beckett and Heather Evans. 2020. About Time: How Long and Life Sentences Fuel Mass Incarceration in Washington State. ACLU of Washington. Publications, Reports Human Rights, Incarceration, Justice, Law, Punishment, Race and Ethnicity
Too Easy to Keep: Life-Sentenced Prisoners and the Future of Mass Incarceration (University of California Press) Publications, Books Punishment
Katherine Beckett. 2016. “Violence, Mass Incarceration, and the Myth of Monstrosity.” The American Prospect, August 18, 2016. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Crime and Criminality, Human Rights, Incarceration, Law, Punishment
Katherine Beckett and Heather Evans. 2016. "Race, Death, and Justice: Capital Sentencing in Washington State, 1981-2014". Columbia Journal of Race and Law, 6:2, 77-114. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Law, Punishment
"Life Without Parole Sentences in Washington State". Law, Societies, and Justice Group Honors Report.  Undergraduate, Honors Theses, Publications, Reports Crime and Criminality, Human Rights, Incarceration, Justice, Punishment, Race and Ethnicity, Social Justice, Sociology
"Guilty but Innocent: Juveniles in Jail in Washington State". Law, Societies, and Justice Group Honors Report. Undergraduate, Honors Theses, Publications, Reports Crime and Criminality, Human Rights, Incarceration, Juvenile Justice, Punishment, Social Change, Social Justice, Sociology
Katherine Beckett. 2012. "Mapping the Carceral State: Toward an Institutionally Capacious Approach to Punishment." Theoretical Criminology, 16:2: 221-44. [with Naomi Murakawa] Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Crime and Criminality, Incarceration, Justice, Law, Punishment
Katherine Beckett. 2011. “Courtesy Stigma and Monetary Sanctions: Toward a Socio-Cultural Theory of Punishment”  [with Alexes Harris, Heather Evans]. American Sociological Review 76, 2: 234-64. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Punishment, Sociology
Katherine Beckett and Steve Herbert. 2010. Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America. Oxford University Press. Published in the Crime and Public Policy Series. Publications, Books Crime and Criminality, Homelessness, Incarceration, Justice, Punishment
Katherine Beckett and Steve Herbert. 2008. The Consequences and Costs of Marijuana Prohibition. Report commissioned by the ACLU of Washington. Publications, Reports Crime and Criminality, Law, Punishment
Katherine Beckett. 2016. "The Uses and Abuses of Police Discretion: Toward Harm Reduction Policing." Harvard Law & Policy Review, 10(1), 77-100. Publications, Essays, Articles, and Book Chapters Law, Punishment