Friends! Inherited Inequality makes its debut Sept 16 🎉
Join me for an open & honest conversation about the power & limits of the two-parent family for improving child outcomes & addressing one of America’s most intractable problems: racial inequality
Hope to see you there!
As of today, I'm an Associate Professor of Sociology--with tenure! While I don’t know every player involved since the tenure process is confidential, I am deeply grateful to the many people who have uplifted me along the way.
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ICE is seeking increasing amounts of data from localities. “We’re seeing more and more signs, especially in ‘sanctuary cities,’ where the federal government’s requests are getting bigger and bigger,” says an immigration law expert.
NEW (and open access!) in @pnas.org:
We find that Secure Communities triggered “preemptive” immigration enforcement, increasing detentions, transfers, & removals even before formal county activation.
Joint with @cvargas100.bsky.social and @immigrationlab.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Our February #LSAMemberSpotlight is Board Trustee @asadasad.bsky.social, @stanfordsoc.bsky.social Asst Professor and author of Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life. (@princetonupress.bsky.social)
Learn more about Prof Asad here! bit.ly/LSAAsad
New article theorizing the relational mechanisms that reproduce criminal legal inequalities. Come for the theory; stay for the review of cutting-edge research showing how social closure, exploitation, and claims-making drive inequality under the law
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read Daniel E. Martínez's review of @asadasad.bsky.social's, 'Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life.' Now available as part of #TheoreticalCrim's fourth and final issue of 2025: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
W/ immigrant detention constantly in the news, I share my portfolio of peer-reviewed research on harms of this system. In @jamanetworkopen.com, we show alarmingly high prevalence of poor health, mental illness & PTSD for all, w/ esp high rates for those detained 6+mo. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Reminder that this is illegal. The IRS has statutory rules that forbid them-except under very specific conditions-from sharing data. The reason is very practical-if people don't trust the IRS they will avoid 'voluntarily' paying taxes. The tax system falls apart otherwise.
Law is central to today’s social crises—from democratic backsliding to immigrant exclusion. This paper shows how cultural sociology offers rigorous explanations of, and insights into how to tackle, law-related crises. Hope it’s useful to law and society scholars and others
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Asad L. Asad
Bolts
Asad L. Asad
Christina J. Cross
Law and Society Association
Matthew Clair
As of today, I am an Associate Professor of Sociology—with tenure!
(For the non-academic folks: tenure is a major career milestone that grants permanent job security. It protects scholars from politi...
The city says it won’t lend this tool to ICE for surveillance. But a state law requires that local officials assist ICE, and New Orleans also wants to end a court order restricting compliance.
This article outlines a relational theory of legal inequality through a review of recent studies of crime, law, and deviance. I argue that three relational mechanisms—claims-making, social closure, a...
NEW: The IRS is building a vast effort to help the Trump Admin deportation apparatus.
A Trump-appointed IRS official objected.
Now he’s out.
& the effort is going forward.
@williamturton.bsky.social, @chrisbing.bsky.social & Avi Shapiro:
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Another body of work studies the black box of US immigration detention. My co-authors & I shed light on disparities in use of solitary confinement & access to visitation, and link conditions of confinement to health harms (see this & next few posts).
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