Criminal Legal Contact

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Bail and Monetary Sanctions

How do private actors (i.e., bail agents) use marking and surveillance to construct and process defendants?

Deckard, Faith M. 2025. “‘A Good Client Gets Arrested A Lot’: Constructing and Maintaining Profitable Subjects Through Marking and Surveillance.” Theoretical Criminology, 0(0).

How do private companies (i.e. bail agencies) aid in transferring state responsibility for risk management onto families?

Deckard, Faith M. 2024. “Surveilling Sureties: How Privately Mediated Monetary Sanctions Enroll and Responsibilize Families.” Social Problems, spae041.

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.