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Heather Schoenfeld

Researcher at Boston University

Publications -  25
Citations -  591

Heather Schoenfeld is an academic researcher from Boston University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Prison & Mass incarceration. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 22 publications receiving 517 citations. Previous affiliations of Heather Schoenfeld include Ohio State University & Northwestern University.

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The Transformation of America’s Penal Order: A Historicized Political Sociology of Punishment1

TL;DR: In this article, comparative historical methods are used to explain the transformation of the US penal order in the second half of the 20th century and reveal that the complex interaction between national and state-level politics and policy helps explain the growth in imprisonment between 1970 and 2001.
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Mass Incarceration and the Paradox of Prison Conditions Litigation

TL;DR: This paper examined how prison conditions litigation in the 1970s, as an outgrowth of the civil rights movement, inadvertently contributed to the rise of mass incarceration in the United States and found that successful court challenges for institutional change can have long-term outcomes that are contrary to social justice goals.
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Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration

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The Science of Human Rights, War Crimes, and Humanitarian Emergencies

TL;DR: Sociology can be an important disciplinary bridge between the study of what demographers call forced migration and mortality and what legal sociologists and criminologists understand as war crimes.
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A Research Agenda on Reform Penal Policy and Politics across the States

TL;DR: The authors argue that new research on reform should be animated by a sociopolitical perspective on punishment that developed out of social science research explaining the rise of mass incarceration, and pose research questions, hypotheses, and potential methodologies related to the causes of the new moment of reform; the variation in reform efforts; and the process, content, and political effects of reform.