I’m excited to share my new article in @ASR_Journal, which addresses a fundamental question of state governance: how do marginalized groups become the responsibility of one bureaucratic institution over another? 1/ Link: https://t.co/yvhJhe7OVl

Thank you @TheSocietyPages for helping to put my research in context!

I have a piece in @guardian @GuardianUS today, adapted from my new book #InvestigatingFamilies “No matter what I do, I’m not in control”: what happens when the state takes your child https://t.co/0sQAshKs9J

Please reach out if you’d like a copy of the paper! Open-access (pre-publication) version is here: https://t.co/CfjITY7PaA. 10/10

I am so grateful to @florenciatorche and @ForrestDStuart for their tremendous mentorship through this process, as well as @ArmandoLaraM, @WesternBruce, and numerous colleagues in workshops @StanfordSoc for feedback on earlier drafts. 9/

Beyond the implications for punishment and inequality, I hope the article proves useful for those studying state governance more broadly, especially the interlocking processes that drive governance decisions. 8/

To disrupt this cycle, the findings thus align with calls from scholars, policymakers, and activists to redirect supportive state resources to informal institutions—families and communities—that may offer children more opportunities to thrive in their full humanity. 7/

The findings show how the pipeline to prison for marginalized groups��particularly poor, Black and Brown children—may be disrupted, at least temporarily. But they also show how these groups are still presumed to need some form of state control, even if “less” coercive. 6/

BUT actors from Probation push back, offloading responsibility for crossover youth back onto Social Services. In the process, Social Services constructs crossover clients as delinquent offenders, whereas Probation constructs these same youth as dependent victims. 5/

I draw on ethnographic data from a CA juvenile court to show how actors from Social Services attempt to offload responsibility for crossover youth onto Probation, the more coercive institution—a phenomenon well established in research on punishment and poverty governance. 4/

To explain this process, I develop a framework of institutional offloading: institutional actors seek to offload responsibility for eligible tasks or clients they perceive to unduly strain the resources at their disposal and expose them to blame. 3/

The article uses the unique case of crossover youth—children at the junction of child welfare and juvenile justice—to illustrate how state institutions negotiate and contest responsibility for marginalized groups. 2/

8:00am Saturday @ASAnews! Book Forum for Bandage, Sort, and Hustle (@ucpress). w/ Ashley Mears, Jeff Sallaz, and @ForrestDStuart. Moderated by @csirois13. Organized by @AnnOwens_. Want to learn more about the book? I posted some CliffsNotes here: https://t.co/nkPQmKvFv9

New by @StanfordSoc Christianne Corbett, @janvoelkel01, our lab's @coopermarianne and Prof. @RobbWiller in @PNASNews, so important to understand elections: voters withhold support for women because they perceive practical barriers to women winning

Very excited to see @priyafsingh's book covered in the NYT today!

I am so excited that @priyafsingh gets to share this important book with the world today! It is beautifully written and universally appealing. And it changed how I think about nutritional inequality in America. Check it out:

In college, I took a course with @prisonstudies that changed my life. Tom Koonce was a brilliant, thoughtful, and supportive classmate. @MassGovernor, his case should warrant serious consideration for commutation.

NYT piece by @just_shelter follows MN renters who faced eviction but organized to purchase their building. “I saw the tenants reimagine — and then reinvent — what stable, affordable housing could look like“ /1 https://t.co/YUrXu9ZHlB

Seconded! Congratulations @ForrestDStuart!