Benjamin R Wei
Biographic Data
| ID | 104928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin R Wei |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin R |
| FAMILY NAME | Wei |
| SIGNATURE | WEI B R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Occidental College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7035-1338 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Anticipatory discrimination: How attorneys’ assumptions about fact triers’ biases sustain race and gender inequality in the civil legal system
Sociolegal research has shown that structural and interpersonal discrimination produce race and gender inequality in access to civil justice. This article draws on interviews with civil attorneys who represent sexual violence victims to theorize “anticipatory discrimination” as a related but distinct explanation for inequality. Attorneys worried about the potential racism and sexism of imagined fact triers (i.e., judges and jurors). They preempte…
Bottom-up hybridity: How Sexual Violence Plaintiffs' Attorneys Blur the Boundaries Between Civil and Criminal Law
Despite symbolic boundaries between civil and criminal law, sociolegal scholars note their conceptual and operational overlap, or hybridity. Values (e.g., restoration vs. punishment) and practices (e.g., monetary compensation vs. incarceration) thought distinct to each manifest in both, and contact with one legal system can generate involvement with the other. Scholars typically attribute hybridity's emergence to top-down mechanisms like legislat…
“It definitely was consensual, but…”: Normative tensions about gendered heterosexuality and young women’s mixed feelings about sex
Sexual ambivalence—sex that is simultaneously wanted and unwanted—is not unusual in young women’s experiences with heterosex. Elucidating how gender and sexuality contribute to ambivalence is important for understanding how social forces shape oft-hidden sexual behaviors that affect women’s well-being. We draw on 20 interviews with young women in the United States to argue that mixed feelings about sex (psychological ambivalence) could stem from …
To Empower or Safeguard? How Novice Rape and Domestic Violence Victim Advocates Render Institutional Complexity Visible
Organizational life is patterned by shared meanings and practices known as "institutional logics." Often, multiple logics exist within the same organization in a potentially tense state of "institutional complexity." Extensive research examines how organizational elites and professionals (i.e., "experts") manage this complexity by replacing, combining, or segregating contradictory logics. However, experts sometimes manage complexity tacitly, whic…
The Politics of Surviving: How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and Its Aftermath
Organizational Bias in Gender-Based Violence Research
Relatively few victims of gender-based violence (GBV) seek help from nonprofit organizations, healthcare providers, or law enforcement agencies, choosing instead to disclose to friends and family or to nobody at all. This article presents a systematic review of GBV research in sociology showing that, despite low rates of formal service utilization, 68% of published articles use data from organizations including social service providers, hospitals…
I’m sick of doing nothing: How Boredom Shapes Rape Crisis Center Volunteers’ Social Movement Participation
Extensive research shows that emotions influence social movement participation. Scholars argue that emotions like anger and pride generally activate – i.e. increase movement participation – whereas emotions like hopelessness and sadness generally deactivate. Organizational theory complicates this research by showing that the same emotions can produce varied outcomes, although the causes of variation remain undertheorized. This article brings toge…
Rhetorical and Organizational Typification of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking as Discrete Forms of Violence
Rhetorical and Organizational Typification of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking as Discrete Forms of Violence
Despite constructions of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking as discrete forms of violence, research shows that violence often co-occurs. Victims experiencing multiple forms of violence require different interventions from victims experiencing only one. Service providers’ understandings of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking as discrete, then, potentially undermine their goal of effective intervention. Drawing on 26 months…
When you're here, you're not a militant feminist: Volunteer Professionalization in a Rape Crisis Center
Carceral lock-in: How organizational conditions stymie the development of justice alternatives in a rape crisis center
Many perpetrators of sexual violence are themselves victims of similar crimes. Such “complex victims” do not fit neatly into the dichotomous categories of victim and perpetrator essential to the functioning of the adversarial criminal-legal system. How anti-rape activists attempt to incorporate complex victims into their work illustrates challenges they experience when wrestling with the carceral state more broadly. In this article, I draw on 32 …
Who Can We Tell Survivors to Call?' The Institutionalization of Criminal-Legal Interventions in a Domestic Violence Organization
Although criminal-legal interventions became accepted as the best response to domestic violence early in the battered women's movement, recent literature suggests that such interventions are often ineffective in reducing rates of violence. Despite this evidence, domestic violence advocates still emphasize criminal-legal interventions over alternatives when working with victims of violence. The author spent thirteen months observing domestic viole…
Patterns of Interaction in Webcam Sex Work: A Comparative Analysis of Female and Male Broadcasters
New information and communication technologies have provided the human interaction with interpersonal, intimate and sexual relationships, giving birth to the appearance of new concepts such as cybersex. Cybersexual activities are developed by two or more persons in a virtual space in order to satisfy sexual needs; however, those who carry out these activities in exchange for financial remuneration are classified as webcam models. The webcam model…
Who Can We Tell Survivors to Call?' The Institutionalization of Criminal-Legal Interventions in a Domestic Violence Organization
Although criminal-legal interventions became accepted as the best response to domestic violence early in the battered women's movement, recent literature suggests that such interventions are often ineffective in reducing rates of violence. Despite this evidence, domestic violence advocates still emphasize criminal-legal interventions over alternatives when working with victims of violence. The author spent thirteen months observing domestic viole…
Patterns of Interaction in Webcam Sex Work: A Comparative Analysis of Female and Male Broadcasters
New information and communication technologies have provided the human interaction with interpersonal, intimate and sexual relationships, giving birth to the appearance of new concepts such as cybersex. Cybersexual activities are developed by two or more persons in a virtual space in order to satisfy sexual needs; however, those who carry out these activities in exchange for financial remuneration are classified as webcam models. The webcam model…
Organizational Bias in Gender-Based Violence Research
Relatively few victims of gender-based violence (GBV) seek help from nonprofit organizations, healthcare providers, or law enforcement agencies, choosing instead to disclose to friends and family or to nobody at all. This article presents a systematic review of GBV research in sociology showing that, despite low rates of formal service utilization, 68% of published articles use data from organizations including social service providers, hospitals…
I’m sick of doing nothing: How Boredom Shapes Rape Crisis Center Volunteers’ Social Movement Participation
Extensive research shows that emotions influence social movement participation. Scholars argue that emotions like anger and pride generally activate – i.e. increase movement participation – whereas emotions like hopelessness and sadness generally deactivate. Organizational theory complicates this research by showing that the same emotions can produce varied outcomes, although the causes of variation remain undertheorized. This article brings toge…
When you're here, you're not a militant feminist: Volunteer Professionalization in a Rape Crisis Center
Carceral lock-in: How organizational conditions stymie the development of justice alternatives in a rape crisis center
Many perpetrators of sexual violence are themselves victims of similar crimes. Such “complex victims” do not fit neatly into the dichotomous categories of victim and perpetrator essential to the functioning of the adversarial criminal-legal system. How anti-rape activists attempt to incorporate complex victims into their work illustrates challenges they experience when wrestling with the carceral state more broadly. In this article, I draw on 32 …
Patterns of Interaction in Webcam Sex Work: A Comparative Analysis of Female and Male Broadcasters
New information and communication technologies have provided the human interaction with interpersonal, intimate and sexual relationships, giving birth to the appearance of new concepts such as cybersex. Cybersexual activities are developed by two or more persons in a virtual space in order to satisfy sexual needs; however, those who carry out these activities in exchange for financial remuneration are classified as webcam models. The webcam model…
Carceral lock-in: How organizational conditions stymie the development of justice alternatives in a rape crisis center
Many perpetrators of sexual violence are themselves victims of similar crimes. Such “complex victims” do not fit neatly into the dichotomous categories of victim and perpetrator essential to the functioning of the adversarial criminal-legal system. How anti-rape activists attempt to incorporate complex victims into their work illustrates challenges they experience when wrestling with the carceral state more broadly. In this article, I draw on 32 …
Who Can We Tell Survivors to Call?' The Institutionalization of Criminal-Legal Interventions in a Domestic Violence Organization
Although criminal-legal interventions became accepted as the best response to domestic violence early in the battered women's movement, recent literature suggests that such interventions are often ineffective in reducing rates of violence. Despite this evidence, domestic violence advocates still emphasize criminal-legal interventions over alternatives when working with victims of violence. The author spent thirteen months observing domestic viole…
Rhetorical and Organizational Typification of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking as Discrete Forms of Violence
Rhetorical and Organizational Typification of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking as Discrete Forms of Violence
Despite constructions of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking as discrete forms of violence, research shows that violence often co-occurs. Victims experiencing multiple forms of violence require different interventions from victims experiencing only one. Service providers’ understandings of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking as discrete, then, potentially undermine their goal of effective intervention. Drawing on 26 months…
When you're here, you're not a militant feminist: Volunteer Professionalization in a Rape Crisis Center
Organizational Bias in Gender-Based Violence Research
Relatively few victims of gender-based violence (GBV) seek help from nonprofit organizations, healthcare providers, or law enforcement agencies, choosing instead to disclose to friends and family or to nobody at all. This article presents a systematic review of GBV research in sociology showing that, despite low rates of formal service utilization, 68% of published articles use data from organizations including social service providers, hospitals…
I’m sick of doing nothing: How Boredom Shapes Rape Crisis Center Volunteers’ Social Movement Participation
Extensive research shows that emotions influence social movement participation. Scholars argue that emotions like anger and pride generally activate – i.e. increase movement participation – whereas emotions like hopelessness and sadness generally deactivate. Organizational theory complicates this research by showing that the same emotions can produce varied outcomes, although the causes of variation remain undertheorized. This article brings toge…
To Empower or Safeguard? How Novice Rape and Domestic Violence Victim Advocates Render Institutional Complexity Visible
Organizational life is patterned by shared meanings and practices known as "institutional logics." Often, multiple logics exist within the same organization in a potentially tense state of "institutional complexity." Extensive research examines how organizational elites and professionals (i.e., "experts") manage this complexity by replacing, combining, or segregating contradictory logics. However, experts sometimes manage complexity tacitly, whic…
The Politics of Surviving: How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and Its Aftermath
“It definitely was consensual, but…”: Normative tensions about gendered heterosexuality and young women’s mixed feelings about sex
Sexual ambivalence—sex that is simultaneously wanted and unwanted—is not unusual in young women’s experiences with heterosex. Elucidating how gender and sexuality contribute to ambivalence is important for understanding how social forces shape oft-hidden sexual behaviors that affect women’s well-being. We draw on 20 interviews with young women in the United States to argue that mixed feelings about sex (psychological ambivalence) could stem from …
Anticipatory discrimination: How attorneys’ assumptions about fact triers’ biases sustain race and gender inequality in the civil legal system
Sociolegal research has shown that structural and interpersonal discrimination produce race and gender inequality in access to civil justice. This article draws on interviews with civil attorneys who represent sexual violence victims to theorize “anticipatory discrimination” as a related but distinct explanation for inequality. Attorneys worried about the potential racism and sexism of imagined fact triers (i.e., judges and jurors). They preempte…
Bottom-up hybridity: How Sexual Violence Plaintiffs' Attorneys Blur the Boundaries Between Civil and Criminal Law
Despite symbolic boundaries between civil and criminal law, sociolegal scholars note their conceptual and operational overlap, or hybridity. Values (e.g., restoration vs. punishment) and practices (e.g., monetary compensation vs. incarceration) thought distinct to each manifest in both, and contact with one legal system can generate involvement with the other. Scholars typically attribute hybridity's emergence to top-down mechanisms like legislat…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Poison control (5 works) · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies (5 works)