Our Captive Money Lab website is live! We are so excited to share and we'll continue to update the site with our research and advocacy on pay-to-stay practices across the country Dr. Brittany Friedman 🌹 April Fernandes Maxwell School maxwell.syr.edu/news/article/1…

Sociologist Liz Chiarello.com explains how a new drug monitoring system put the emphasis on fighting crime instead of caring for patients, shifting pharmacists' routines, relationships, and professional roles. -New from John Purnell on The Society Pages thesocietypages.org/discoveries/20…

My first solo-authored paper is published at Ethnic and Racial Studies! It is nice to see a published outcome of my work. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Join us on 10/25! Dm me if you’d like to be added to the listserv for the Zoom link.

Two more days until this exciting conversation! Please join the listserv (or dm me!) for meeting info. We're really excited to talk with Michelle Phelps about her wonderful new book on Friday at 3p ET.

Excited to be a co-chair/founder of the ASA Sociology community on prison education and being a panelist for our first event w/ some amazing people: Gabe Rosales Sarah Hoiland #MeganKlein #CarlaBarrett #MaryNellTrautner Register link: hostos-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

#GivingTuesday is a great opportunity to celebrate the diverse scholarly community our members work together to create! If you would like to donate to #LSA, please click the link below: bit.ly/4fBTTw9 #LawAndSociety #CommunityBuilding #AccessToJustice Chiara Packard

Coming February 2026 from University of California Press. A theory-driven case study of frontline labor at one of the largest public benefits bureaucracies in the nation: the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services. More details soon.

Giving my crash course in qualitative methods tomorrow. As always, slides are posted online for anyone interested (I have the short and longer versions posted). ashleytrubin.com/resources/meth…

🚨NEW PUB🚨 In this article, my friend-colleagues and I suggest that rather than thinking about police contact as direct officer-civilian interactions (temporally constrained), we might view and measure it as PERPETUAL (1/4)

Hi all! I have a new article out! I introduce privilege diffusion—a rhetorical strategy that disperses blame on to vague forces like “culture” or “masculinity,” that appear critical but ultimately obscure responsibility for those with privilege. doi.org/10.1111/soc4.7…

Hello, criminologists! Consider nominating yourself or a colleague or a friend (AKA a frolleague) for this award! 😁 Please reach out with any questions! #crimtwitter