This page lists my published articles and essays. Each title links to a page with a short overview, access options, and related work.

2025

Between Worlds: Identity, Culture, and Ambivalence in a Boarding School for “At-Risk” Youth
Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.

Examines how institutional intervention shapes identity, belonging, and ambivalence among young people navigating inequality.

2024

The Submerged Prison State: Punishment, Private Interests, and the Politics of Public Accountability
Punishment & Society.

Shows how hidden administrative pathways and private actors influence punishment while diffusing democratic responsibility.

2021

Must Penal Law Be Insulated from Public Influence?
Law and Philosophy.

Asks whether shielding criminal law from democratic pressure can be reconciled with political legitimacy.

2019

Children, Development, and the Troubled Foundations of Miller v. Alabama
Law & Social Inquiry.

Argues that developmental science cannot by itself ground constitutional limits on juvenile punishment.

Reply to Elizabeth Scott, Laurence Steinberg, David Tanenhaus, and James Backstrom
Law & Social Inquiry.

Clarifies the democratic and normative stakes of debates over development-based sentencing.

2018

On Prison Democracy: The Politics of Participation in a Maximum Security Prison
Critical Inquiry.

A theory-driven account of why “participation” inside prisons can blur the line between democratization and managed compliance.

2010

Investment Talk: Comments on the Use of the Language of Investment in Prison Reform Advocacy
Carceral Notebooks.

A critique of cost-benefit framings in penal reform.