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Elizabeth Brown

Department:

Sociology

Title:

Associate Professor

Location:

Wheatley Hall , Floor 04

Phone:

617.287.6250

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Areas of Expertise

Law and society, moral politics, determinants of public views, punishment policy

Degrees

PhD, State University of New York, Albany (SUNY-Albany)

Professional Publications & Contributions

Wozniak, Kevin H., Pickett, J.T., and Brown, Elizabeth K. (2022). Judging hardworking robbers and lazy thieves: An experimental test of act- vs. person-centered punitiveness and perceived redeemability. Justice Quarterly.
Brown, E. K., & Silver, J. R. (2022). The moral foundations of crime control in American presidential platforms, 1968-2016. Punishment & Society, 24(2), 169-220.
Brown, E. K. (2020). Toward refining the criminology of mass incarceration: Group-based trajectories of U.S. states, 1977–2010. Criminal Justice Review, 45(1), 45-63.
Brown, E. K., Socia, K. M., & Silver, J. R. (2019). Conflicted conservatives, punitive views, and anti-Black racial bias 1974-2014. Punishment & Society, 21(1), 3-27.
Brown, Elizabeth K. and Socia, Kelly M. (2017). Twenty-First Century Punitiveness: Social Sources of Punitive Views Reconsidered. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 33: 935.
Socia, Kelly M., and Brown, Elizabeth K. (2017). Up in smoke: The passage of medical marijuana legislation and enactment of dispensary moratoriums in Massachusetts. Crime and Delinquency, 63(5), 569–591.
Socia, Kelly M., and Brown, Elizabeth K. (2016). "This isn’t about Casey Anthony anymore": Political rhetoric and Caylee’s Law. Criminal Justice Policy Review 27(4): 348-377.
Worden, Alissa P., Davies, Andrew L. B., Brown, Elizabeth, K. (2014). Public Defense in an Age of Innocence: The Innocence Paradigm and the Challenges of Representing the Accused, pages 209-225 in Wrongful Conviction & Criminal Justice Reform: Making Justice, edited by Marvin Zalman and Julia Carrano, New York, NY: Routledge Press.
Brown, Elizabeth K. (2013). Foreclosing on incarceration? State correctional policy enactments and the Great Recession. Criminal Justice Policy Review 24(3): 317-337.
Brown, Elizabeth K. (2012). Rethinking public opinion in penal policymaking: Recommendations for research. Sociology Compass, 6(8): 601-613.

Additional Information

View Professor Brown’s Curriculum Vitae

Current Research

My research focuses on the politics of crime and crime control, determinants of public views, and the roles of public views in penal policymaking. My current research considers moral invocations in political rhetoric on crime and justice and the ways in which animus toward the poor shapes punitive views.