Reviewing recent research on poverty in the United States, we derive a conceptual
framework with three main characteristics. First, poverty is multidimensional, compounding …

Over the past 30 years, cities across the United States have adopted quality-of-life
ordinances aimed at policing social marginality. Scholars have documented zero-tolerance …

In the growing field of research on the consequences of criminal justice contact for family life,
a heavy emphasis has been placed on how imprisonment influences the emotional …

With evidence comprising three years of ethnographic research in child support courts and
125 in-depth interviews with formerly incarcerated fathers, the author shows how criminal …

Material-need insecurities (including insecurities in basic resources such as income, food,
housing, and healthcare) are widespread in the United States (US) and may be important …

Based on interviews and ethnography, this article analyzes how racialized gender policing
in public space and service organizations deprives transgender women of survival …

What is the role of the ambulance in the American city? The prevailing narrative provides a
rather simple answer: saving and transporting the critically ill and injured. This is not an …

Studies of poverty governance typically emphasize the punitive subjugation or paternalistic
disciplining of the poor. Much work combines elements of these approaches, and recent …

Based on 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 45 in-depth interviews with formerly-
incarcerated men, this article explores how former prisoners navigate criminal justice and …

Drawing from my analysis of sex worker and homeless protests as well as my experience
doing ethnographic research with people experiencing homelessness and people in the sex …