New w/ @shelleyliu.bsky.social in Science Advances We show that a police trust-building proj: - raised police trust among non-Black respondents - lowered it among Black respondents - cut non-Black support for BLM + racial equity policies doi.org/10.1126/scia... Funding: @RussellSageFdn

"We find that progress claims featured more prominently and fervently during moments when the department had reason to believe its legitimacy was threatened." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

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NEW: Tony Cheng, Johann Koehler, "Making Progress in the Chicago Police Department, 1862–2024" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

🚨New paper klaxon!🚨 How does a police department manage to claim that it's "making progress"? And how does it do so even when people complain about its poor performance, corruption, or whatever else? sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13... @chicagopolice.bsky.social

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/...

A Relational Theory of Inequality in the Criminal Legal System

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...

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Happy to share new paper on "State Actors as Hard-to-Reach Populations" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It's hard to believe, but today is the day -- the release date for Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice, a book that @joshpage.bsky.social and I have been working on for most of the past decade. If you’d like to check it out, you can get 30% off by entering the code UCPNEW.

Legal Plunder

A searing, historically rich account of how US policing and punishment have been retrofitted over the last four decades to extract public and private revenues from America’s poorest and most vulnerabl...

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👉 happy to see another thematic book review out on the slate of new books on policing (inc The Minneapolis Reckoning), this time focused on the failures of police reform by Daniel Krasnicki in SRE. cc @tonykcheng.bsky.social, @michaelsierraa.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Is it Racist? Is it Sexist? is officially out! Our book dives into how white liberals and conservatives differ in their views, what each gets right and wrong, and how we can all do better.

Need a new grip of sociology on policing? I worked on these 2024 bangers: ↪️ @michellesphelps.bsky.social "The Minneapolis Reckoning" tinyurl.com/MSPMPLS ↪️ @tonykcheng.bsky.social "The Policing Machine" tinyurl.com/TCMachine ↪️ @michaelsierraa.bsky.social "The Danger Imperative" tinyurl.com/MSADanger

When times are tight, do cities cut police or social service budgets more? In a 🚨new study🚨, I find revenue loss is associated with shallow, temporary cuts to policing and deep, enduring cuts to social services. The article, in Criminology, is free, and I summarize it below. doi.org/10.1111/1745...

Do austerity cuts spare police budgets? Welfare‐to‐carceral realignment during fiscal crises

Did governments shift funding from their social welfare functions to their criminal justice functions after the 1980s? Studies investigating this possible “punitive turn” have been inconclusive and h...

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Was great to hear @tonykcheng.bsky.social present on his new book! Instead of conceptualizing community policing as meaningless, he theorizes it as political mobilization that helps police departments impede reform. Police invocations of “community” are more like curated constructs.

Big year for policing books at ASC! Lots of panels, including a quadruple-header book salon w/ @michellesphelps.bsky.social @tonykcheng.bsky.social Samantha Simon, and me. 📚 If you come say hi, I’ve got a very groovy sticker for you 💀🚔

Incredibly generous and insightful review of 3 new policing books by @tonykcheng.bsky.social @michellesphelps.bsky.social and me, out now in Law and Social Inquiry. Special thanks to Daanika Gordon for taking such care with her read and write-up of our work. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input by @tonykcheng.bsky.social scrutinises the #NYPD’s #NeighborhoodPolicing model, revealing how it is used to maintain police legitimacy while impeding meaningful reform. #Review Pascual Cortés wp.me/p2MwSQ-hFs%22

The Policing Machine – review

In The Policing Machine, Tony Cheng scrutinises the NYPD’s Neighborhood Policing model, revealing how police use public input as a tool to maintain control and legitimacy. Based on in-depth ethnogr…

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A new study by @tonykcheng.bsky.social and others shows support for police alternatives increases when people are exposed to information about those alternatives, at least with non-violent incidents. www.nber.org/system/files...

TODAY is the official publication date of The Policing Machine! 🥳 I'd be delighted to give workshop/classroom talks UChicago Discount Code: UCPNEW Code for course e-books: CDDC30 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Excited to get the book cover in hand!! Thanks so much to Robert Vargas, Tracey Meares, & Jonathan Simon for reading and blurbing And continued thanks to all at UChicago Press for making this process extra special press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...