And she has since been deported. Link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

If you haven't already, check out the great papers in our March issue! First up, Jacob Lederman’s study of Detroit examines how two different urban coalitions used placemaking as a tool to bridge contradictory goals in favor of market-aligned development. Link below.

It's the final countdown! There are a handful of hours left before registration closes for our Measuring and Theorizing Structural Racism conference, happening Friday, 4/10. #Umich #AcademicSky Check out the schedule & register by 5 pm EST TODAY: structural-racism.isr.umich.edu

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In 2018, Jordan Costa was a grad student battling through her criminology studies. She was drawn to the intersections of mental health and gun access. When she found out how closely linked she was to the gun violence crisis, her work changed forever. Read more: thetr.ac/Yo5VC

Congratulations, @jeremylevine.bsky.social! 🎉 👇

There’s still time to join our own conference organizers @davonnorris.bsky.social and @jeremylevine.bsky.social for our 1-day conference, Measuring and Theorizing Structural Racism, Friday, 4/10. #Umich #AcademicSky Check out the schedule & register by Monday, 3/30: structural-racism.isr.umich.edu

The third Associate Editor we'd like to welcome is @jeremylevine.bsky.social! Jeremy's previous work on development established him as a leading voice on the role of nonprofits in urban governance, and his newer work looks at inequality in victim compensation law. We're thrilled to have him!

Registration is open for the @umichstonecid.bsky.social April 10 conference on measuring and theorizing structural racism. Check out the schedule & panelists, and register: structural-racism.isr.umich.edu

Professor Wurman seems to relish in calling me a bad academic who doesn’t sufficiently extend good faith presumptions and scholarly charity. He also demands I produce evidence in real time. Fairs. So, Ilan Wurman, I’d like you to meet Ilan Wurman.

UC Irvine criminologist Charis E. Kubrin keeps proving that immigration doesn’t increase crime. Why hasn’t her message broken through?

That's a lot of "really"...but it's true! The tool is good. Faster and more helpful than googling and copying-and-pasting code from forums and replacing with my own variable names.

Claude Code is really, really cool and helpful. Takes some practice to figure out the prompts and such but I was able to do a really cool analysis with tons of figures in a really short amount of time.

Is he saying HE is going to kill the Iranian soccer team if they come for the World Cup? Probably not, but it's not clear, and either way, what the actual fuck man.

Fraud has become a governing logic of poverty policy. Anti-fraud enforcement shapes how the safety net works. Yet low-income households are also disproportionately victims of fraud. Check out: My op-ed: thehill.com/opinion/fina... Forthcoming Iowa L. Rev. Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

With our March 2026 issue, we can officially welcome @annowens.bsky.social and Brian J. McCabe as the new editors of City & Community! They are excited to continue publishing the impactful research that the journal is known for. Their editorial introduction highlights the exciting changes to come.

Jacob Hibel and I have organized an upcoming conference on AI and Social Inequality, which will be held on 3/17 at the UC Student and Policy Center in Sacramento. This event is open to social scientists, computer scientists, and the policy community. poverty.ucdavis.edu/event/artifi...

New article out today in NYT covering our work (linked below) on credit scores and home insurance, as well as lots of other great research in this area. Big implications for how the risks and costs of climate change are shared. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Can justice exist after trauma? A new study co-authored by @jeremylevine.bsky.social reveals that bureaucratic hurdles and racial disparities limit access to victim compensation for adult survivors of sexual assault. Read the full study: https://myumi.ch/Mkjm8

This is far more threatening to American Jews than anyone's policy views toward Israel

Learn more about how this research could help reshape victim compensation policies nationwide: myumi.ch/mR9q1

ISR researcher @jeremylevine.bsky.social studies why victim compensation laws often fail survivors. His new project evaluates a New York policy change removing the police report requirement to see if it improves access for victims and informs reforms nationwide.

I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."

Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.

A funeral assistance fund for homicide victims in Philly would be great, but hopefully it avoids the problems of state compensation programs and their strict eligibility criteria. See "Racial Disparities in Victim Compensation Among Homicide Survivors in the United States" in Race and Justice:

This is an all-timer in headlines where the use of the passive voice obscures a VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM with the basic premise of the story

Harper has proven himself to be an only slightly smarter TCW. Follow the logic of this quip: We're overreacting about supposedly racist slights, except when it's about me, then it's racist, but also I don't believe it is, so you should feel bad, but I don't. www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

“Blue City Crime” is their effort to replicate the “Black crime” sections of other sites with a patina of plausible deniability, and it’ll really be up to y’all if that works...

15 games plus 2 tournaments for my 9 year old between now and May 31. Worse than last year....and apparently it keeps getting worse? Like forever?

Overview of new study by @jeremylevine.bsky.social & Sam Dickman about systemic failures for sexual assault victims. ‘Our findings suggest that policies requiring police verification and cooperation, as well as extensive documentation, prevent survivors from accessing compensation,’ noted Levine.

Bureaucratic hurdles and racial disparities restrict access to victim compensation for adult survivors of sexual assault, deepen justice system inequities, and compound trauma, according to a new study published by our own @jeremylevine.bsky.social and co-author Sam Dickman in the AJPH (🧵1/2).

Hot of the presses research on high-cost alternative credit instruments and the welfare state by Rhodes, Berger, and @umichstonecid.bsky.social associate @davonnorris.bsky.social 👇

Justice after trauma? Race, red tape keep sexual assault victims from compensation

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Pro shackles, just not in my backyard!

“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”

Interested in submitting an article to the AJS for consideration? Go to our authors' resources page for guidelines: ajs.uchicago.edu/for-authors/

Kinda like Chatterton Williams, who thinks history began in 2020, that Tyler Austin Harper essay on Mellon, which accomplishes a rare feat of being both unoriginal and missing the story, operates as if critiques of philanthropy's role in society weren't pervasive 10 years ago.

Robynn Cox and I have a new paper! It's about the history of predictive algorithms in criminal justice, back in the 1920s-1950s. This paper is the result of five years of research and we're so happy to see it out. 🧵 1/

"Everyone in the room is for affordable housing"

This is exactly what I'd expect the meeting against Ann Arbor's comprehensive plan to look like.

VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here! New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more! edopportunity.org/segregation/

Urban sociologists! I'm organizing a Community and Urban Sociology Section session at the 2026 ASA Annual Meeting titled "Housing as an Asset." Please submit extended abstracts or full papers related to topics on homeownership, house values, taxation, mortgages, etc. Deadline is 2/25. bit.ly/3Zx2eez

NEW: In Iowa, when someone's charges are *dismissed,* they still had to pay court fees. So prosecutors pressured ppl into pleading guilty: 'plead guilty, you'll have no fees. (If you win, you'll owe $$.)' Iowa's Supreme Court struck that down in January... but prosecutors want to bring it all back:

Great new housing papers: "Assisted Housing and Changes in Household Composition" by Kristin Perkins shows that receiving federal or state housing assistance stabilizes families doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Research ethics ? (please send resources!): I'm writing about publicly available court cases from 1970s describing gender-based violence (SA, DV). Victims' names are listed. Citations for the cases is "In Re [victim name]..." Ok to name victims in text? Feels violating, but maybe I'm overthinking.

New resources by @ternerhousing.bsky.social study how states structure the governance of affordable housing finance systems and how it can impact the production of affordable housing. Learn more:

Racist eugenicists from the 1920s: we are so back