F M Deckard
Biographic Data
| ID | 47097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F M Deckard |
| GIVEN NAMES | F M |
| FAMILY NAME | Deckard |
| SIGNATURE | DECKARD F M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2230-0453 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Why Ethnography
What kind of knowledge does ethnography afford? Why do we need such knowledge? This paper draws upon the authors’ individual work to reflect on the ongoing necessity of good enough ethnographic fieldwork in sociology. Alongside presenting moving stories, unearthing rules of behavior, interpreting meanings through thick description, obtaining fine-grained insight into the working of organizations, revealing the complex interplay of informal and fo…
Abolition Feminist Storytelling as Methodology
This paper engages abolition feminist storytelling as a methodology for feminist criminologists to identify, reflect on, grapple with, and ultimately confront carceral logics in the stories we (re)tell about violence and punishment. Drawing on over a decade’s worth of research, advocacy, and community organizing, we identify three carceral tensions that emerged within our own storytelling: the victim-offender binary, researcher complicity, and a …
A good client gets arrested a lot
Criminal legal processing is an arduous classification, supervision, and extraction cycle increasingly administered by private entities. This article spotlights processing within commercial bail and uncovers profitable subjects—people (re)identified as future assets—as a stratifying and elusive construction with implications for criminal legal experiences. Bail agents deploy marking and surveillance like other legal professionals to process peopl…
Surveilling Sureties
In the neoliberal age, ordinary people are increasingly responsible for taking up crime control and surveillance, what we might consider traditional state functions. This article situates commercial bail as a case of responsibilization and identifies monetary sanctions as a mechanism through which private companies offload pretrial risk management onto families. Drawing on ethnographic and interview data, I present this process via four stages. F…
Perpetual encounters
Research and media discussion of police contact routinely conceptualize it as time-constrained interactions between officers and civilians. However, extant literature documents preparation for encounters and post-encounter advocacy, which each challenge restricted understandings of contact and, importantly, its relationship to mental health. We introduce 'perpetual encounters' to both theoretically and empirically move closer to the temporally un…
We Got Witnesses' Black Women's Counter-Surveillance for Navigating Police Violence and Legal Estrangement
Police violence shapes the lives of racial and ethnic minorities, and while much has been written about strategic responses to police, missing is an examination of how black women navigate interactions with officers. Based on 32 interviews with black women, we find that they use witnessing, or the mobilization of others as observers to police encounters. Research demonstrates the rising role of videos and smartphones in documenting encounters wit…
A Network Approach to Assessing the Relationship between Discrimination and Daily Emotion Dynamics
Discrimination-health research has been critiqued for neglecting the endogeneity of reports of discrimination to negative affect and the multidimensionality of mental health. To address these challenges, we model discrimination’s relationship to multiple psychological variables without directional constraints. Using time-dense data to identify associational network structures allows for joint testing of the social stress hypothesis, prominent in …
Debt Stress, College Stress
Poor People's Survival Strategies
Nearly a half-century ago, two scholars north and south of the US border called attention to the role played by reciprocity networks in poor peoples' survival strategies. This article provides a synthetic picture of the qualitative research on those strategies, focusing not only on mutual aid networks but also on clientelist politics and popular protest. These are, we argue, oftentimes complementary ways of everyday problem-solving. Furthermore, …
Poor People's Survival Strategies
Nearly a half-century ago, two scholars north and south of the US border called attention to the role played by reciprocity networks in poor peoples' survival strategies. This article provides a synthetic picture of the qualitative research on those strategies, focusing not only on mutual aid networks but also on clientelist politics and popular protest. These are, we argue, oftentimes complementary ways of everyday problem-solving. Furthermore, …
We Got Witnesses' Black Women's Counter-Surveillance for Navigating Police Violence and Legal Estrangement
Police violence shapes the lives of racial and ethnic minorities, and while much has been written about strategic responses to police, missing is an examination of how black women navigate interactions with officers. Based on 32 interviews with black women, we find that they use witnessing, or the mobilization of others as observers to police encounters. Research demonstrates the rising role of videos and smartphones in documenting encounters wit…
A good client gets arrested a lot
Criminal legal processing is an arduous classification, supervision, and extraction cycle increasingly administered by private entities. This article spotlights processing within commercial bail and uncovers profitable subjects—people (re)identified as future assets—as a stratifying and elusive construction with implications for criminal legal experiences. Bail agents deploy marking and surveillance like other legal professionals to process peopl…
Surveilling Sureties
In the neoliberal age, ordinary people are increasingly responsible for taking up crime control and surveillance, what we might consider traditional state functions. This article situates commercial bail as a case of responsibilization and identifies monetary sanctions as a mechanism through which private companies offload pretrial risk management onto families. Drawing on ethnographic and interview data, I present this process via four stages. F…
Perpetual encounters
Research and media discussion of police contact routinely conceptualize it as time-constrained interactions between officers and civilians. However, extant literature documents preparation for encounters and post-encounter advocacy, which each challenge restricted understandings of contact and, importantly, its relationship to mental health. We introduce 'perpetual encounters' to both theoretically and empirically move closer to the temporally un…
Debt Stress, College Stress
Poor People's Survival Strategies
Nearly a half-century ago, two scholars north and south of the US border called attention to the role played by reciprocity networks in poor peoples' survival strategies. This article provides a synthetic picture of the qualitative research on those strategies, focusing not only on mutual aid networks but also on clientelist politics and popular protest. These are, we argue, oftentimes complementary ways of everyday problem-solving. Furthermore, …
A Network Approach to Assessing the Relationship between Discrimination and Daily Emotion Dynamics
Discrimination-health research has been critiqued for neglecting the endogeneity of reports of discrimination to negative affect and the multidimensionality of mental health. To address these challenges, we model discrimination’s relationship to multiple psychological variables without directional constraints. Using time-dense data to identify associational network structures allows for joint testing of the social stress hypothesis, prominent in …
We Got Witnesses' Black Women's Counter-Surveillance for Navigating Police Violence and Legal Estrangement
Police violence shapes the lives of racial and ethnic minorities, and while much has been written about strategic responses to police, missing is an examination of how black women navigate interactions with officers. Based on 32 interviews with black women, we find that they use witnessing, or the mobilization of others as observers to police encounters. Research demonstrates the rising role of videos and smartphones in documenting encounters wit…
A good client gets arrested a lot
Criminal legal processing is an arduous classification, supervision, and extraction cycle increasingly administered by private entities. This article spotlights processing within commercial bail and uncovers profitable subjects—people (re)identified as future assets—as a stratifying and elusive construction with implications for criminal legal experiences. Bail agents deploy marking and surveillance like other legal professionals to process peopl…
Surveilling Sureties
In the neoliberal age, ordinary people are increasingly responsible for taking up crime control and surveillance, what we might consider traditional state functions. This article situates commercial bail as a case of responsibilization and identifies monetary sanctions as a mechanism through which private companies offload pretrial risk management onto families. Drawing on ethnographic and interview data, I present this process via four stages. F…
Perpetual encounters
Research and media discussion of police contact routinely conceptualize it as time-constrained interactions between officers and civilians. However, extant literature documents preparation for encounters and post-encounter advocacy, which each challenge restricted understandings of contact and, importantly, its relationship to mental health. We introduce 'perpetual encounters' to both theoretically and empirically move closer to the temporally un…
Why Ethnography
What kind of knowledge does ethnography afford? Why do we need such knowledge? This paper draws upon the authors’ individual work to reflect on the ongoing necessity of good enough ethnographic fieldwork in sociology. Alongside presenting moving stories, unearthing rules of behavior, interpreting meanings through thick description, obtaining fine-grained insight into the working of organizations, revealing the complex interplay of informal and fo…
Abolition Feminist Storytelling as Methodology
This paper engages abolition feminist storytelling as a methodology for feminist criminologists to identify, reflect on, grapple with, and ultimately confront carceral logics in the stories we (re)tell about violence and punishment. Drawing on over a decade’s worth of research, advocacy, and community organizing, we identify three carceral tensions that emerged within our own storytelling: the victim-offender binary, researcher complicity, and a …
Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Mental health (3 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (2 works)