Criminal Legal Contact

Bail and Monetary Sanctions

Deckard, Faith M. 2025. “Surveilling Sureties: How Privately Mediated Monetary Sanctions Enroll and Responsibilize Families.” Social Problems 72(4):1651-1667.

How do private companies (i.e., bail agencies) shift the responsibility of risk management onto families?

How are defendants reconstructed by private actors (i.e., bail agents) using standard processing techniques?

Deckard, Faith M. 2025. “‘A Good Client Gets Arrested A Lot’: Constructing and Maintaining Profitable Subjects Through Marking and Surveillance.” Theoretical Criminology 29(4):434-451.

Policing

What is the association between police contact and mental health among Black women?

Faith M. Deckard, Shannon Malone Gonzalez, Yasmiyn Irizarry, and Jaime Feng-Yuan Hsu. 2025. “Perpetual Encounters: Reconceptualizing Police Contact and Measuring its Relationship to Black Women’s Mental Health.” Social Forces soaf070.

How do Black women navigate interactions with police?

Malone Gonzalez, Shannon and Faith M. Deckard*. 2024. “’We Got Witnesses’: Black Women Navigating Police Violence and Legal Estrangement.” Social Problems 71(3):894-911. VIDEO SUMMARY AVAILABLE VIA AUTHOR ATTIC