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Do you care about racial segregation, local politics, suburbanization, or spatial inequality? Then you should also care about municipal incorporation! (At least, this is what I argue in my new paper in the Russell Sage Foundation journal). Link: rsfjournal.org/content/9/2/226

Thrilled to share Russell Sage Foundation journal issue on Suburban Inequality, edited by me, L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy + Stephen Matthews. It highlights dramatic shifts in suburbs, how to make sense of economic + ethnic-racial changes. Tufts University Scholars Strategy Network (bsky: @scholars.org) ASA Sociology rsfjournal.org/content/9/1 (1/n)

Research into the spatial context of the criminal justice system has grown lately, but it faces challenges. In a new piece, Jessica Simes, John “renegade teacher and scholar” Eason, and I summarize the sub-field, critique its focus on large cities, and venture some recommendations.

Re the debate over whether police are "under-funded," we've been increasing our police spending more rapidly than our education spending, especially relative to the need for each.

NEW Study: New Yorkers have long complained about cars parked on sidewalks and in crosswalks outside of NYPD station houses, but how widespread an issue is this, and how long has it occurred? I visited all 77 station houses to find out.

Nicole Krauss' new short story in the The New Yorker is a great elucidation of suburban crime. No kidnappers, but price fixers, tax evaders, overbillers, and hit-and-runners. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

Are you a member of the American Sociological Association's Community and Urban Sociology Section (Community & Urban Sociology Section)? If so, sign up now to be a mentor or mentee at this year's conference! umassamherst.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_57…

.@BUsociologydept is hiring two assistant professors! Sociology of sexualities and sociology of race & ethnicity. See position ads below. ASA Sociology

It’s true, I have joined the faculty at the Rutgers SCJ. I will dearly miss my CU Denver colleagues and students, but I’m excited to return to the NYC area and work alongside the amazing criminal justice scholars at Rutgers. If you’re in the area, get in touch!