Melissa Burch
Biographic Data
| ID | 131990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Burch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Burch |
| SIGNATURE | BURCH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eckerd College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8397-645X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Criminal Record Complex: Risk, Race, and the Struggle for Work in America
How a convergence of policy, law, and profit drives the use of criminal background checks in hiring Most employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictions—and thus denying opportunities to those who need them most. In this powerful analysis , Melissa Burch sheds light on one of the most significant forces of social and economic marginalization of our time—dis…
What It Means to Be Useful
Introduction: Abolition in/from the University
Fit to Protect: Race, Vulnerability, and the Risk Politics of California Firefighting
Geographies, Systems, Spaces, and Pictures: Scholars and Practitioners on Designing Against Infrastructures of Harm
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMelissa BurchMelissa Burch [email protected] BurrowesNicole Burrowes [email protected] LeBronMarisol LeBron [email protected] OkechukwuAmaka Okechukwu [email protected] RittnerJennifer Rittner [email protected] Justice + Designing SpacesDesigning Justice + Designing Spaces https://designingjustice.org/Paula AustinShana Agid [email protected] AgidPaula …
Strategic Targeting: The Islamic State and Use of Violence in Iraq and Syria
What explains the specific location of Islamic State attacks in Syria and Iraq? We consider how both ethnic and economic factors shape the group’s decision-making about where to attack. We explore these competing motivations using spatial analysis of the Islamic State’s individual acts of violence from 2013–2017. We find that both areas with ethnic heterogeneity and valuable economic rents are associated with more individual Islamic State violent…
Scripting the Conviction: Power and Resistance in the Management of Criminal Stigma
People with criminal records seeking employment face a dilemma: how to discuss their conviction(s) in a job interview. Convicted job seekers are encouraged to draft, revise, and rehearse their "conviction scripts" and to approach their delivery as a Goffmanian performance. Drawing from participant observation within a nonprofit employment program in Southern California, this article analyzes job seekers' attempts to craft narratives that will sat…
The emergence of splinter factions in intrastate conflict
Why do some rebel groups fractionalize during intrastate conflict? The focus of this article is on understanding a particular phenomenon within fragmentation during civil war: the emergence of viable splinter factions. Splinter factions are when a new rebel group emerges from an ongoing violent challenge against the state and concurrently launches their own violent campaign rather than continue to pool resources to mount a more effective fight. I…
Captive afterlives in the age of mass conviction
Criminal records have become an increasingly important mechanism for managing and containing criminalized populations beyond prison walls. This ethnographic analysis of a formerly imprisoned woman’s search for work explores how the feeling of captivity resonates not only with the imprisoned but also with the recently released
An umbrella of legitimacy: Rebel faction size and external military intervention
How may the legitimacy of rebel groups shape the decisions of third-party states to support insurgencies militarily? In aiming to better understand how the (group-level) attributes of insurgencies motivate interventions on their behalf, we argue that the size of rebel forces serves as a proxy for a revolution’s perceived legitimacy within the international community. Specifically, we maintain that the larger the insurgency, the greater the insurg…
(Re)entry from the Bottom Up: Case Study of a Critical Approach to Assisting Women Coming Home from Prison
Local Fights in National Conflicts: Understanding the Location of Conflict Events during Intrastate Conflict
How do rebel groups determine their targets during intrastate conflict? We build upon two competing theories in conflict studies that emphasize either the social or economic determinants of violence during war and use geographic information systems (GIS) analysis to explore these competing theories. To do this, we utilize a subnational analysis of the most likely case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to understand whether ethnicity or natu…
Book section. Explorations around the core executive
Journal Article Book section. Explorations around the core executive Get access M Burch M Burch University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 1, January 2001, Pages 139–141, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/54.1.139 Published: 01 January 2001
The Prime Minister's and cabinet offices: An Executive Office in All but Name
Journal Article The Prime Minister's and cabinet offices: an executive office in all but name Get access M Burch, M Burch University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar I Holliday I Holliday University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 1, January 1999, Pages 32–45, https://…
Mrs Thatcher's Approach to Leadership in Government: 1979-June 1983
Journal Article Mrs Thatcher's Approach to Leadership in Government: 1979–June 1983 Get access Martin Burch Martin Burch Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 36, Issue 4, 1983, Pages 399–416, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/36.4.399 Published: 01 October 1983
Scripting the Conviction: Power and Resistance in the Management of Criminal Stigma
People with criminal records seeking employment face a dilemma: how to discuss their conviction(s) in a job interview. Convicted job seekers are encouraged to draft, revise, and rehearse their "conviction scripts" and to approach their delivery as a Goffmanian performance. Drawing from participant observation within a nonprofit employment program in Southern California, this article analyzes job seekers' attempts to craft narratives that will sat…
The Prime Minister's and cabinet offices: An Executive Office in All but Name
Journal Article The Prime Minister's and cabinet offices: an executive office in all but name Get access M Burch, M Burch University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar I Holliday I Holliday University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 1, January 1999, Pages 32–45, https://…
Mrs Thatcher's Approach to Leadership in Government: 1979-June 1983
Journal Article Mrs Thatcher's Approach to Leadership in Government: 1979–June 1983 Get access Martin Burch Martin Burch Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 36, Issue 4, 1983, Pages 399–416, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/36.4.399 Published: 01 October 1983
The emergence of splinter factions in intrastate conflict
Why do some rebel groups fractionalize during intrastate conflict? The focus of this article is on understanding a particular phenomenon within fragmentation during civil war: the emergence of viable splinter factions. Splinter factions are when a new rebel group emerges from an ongoing violent challenge against the state and concurrently launches their own violent campaign rather than continue to pool resources to mount a more effective fight. I…
(Re)entry from the Bottom Up: Case Study of a Critical Approach to Assisting Women Coming Home from Prison
Captive afterlives in the age of mass conviction
Criminal records have become an increasingly important mechanism for managing and containing criminalized populations beyond prison walls. This ethnographic analysis of a formerly imprisoned woman’s search for work explores how the feeling of captivity resonates not only with the imprisoned but also with the recently released
An umbrella of legitimacy: Rebel faction size and external military intervention
How may the legitimacy of rebel groups shape the decisions of third-party states to support insurgencies militarily? In aiming to better understand how the (group-level) attributes of insurgencies motivate interventions on their behalf, we argue that the size of rebel forces serves as a proxy for a revolution’s perceived legitimacy within the international community. Specifically, we maintain that the larger the insurgency, the greater the insurg…
Strategic Targeting: The Islamic State and Use of Violence in Iraq and Syria
What explains the specific location of Islamic State attacks in Syria and Iraq? We consider how both ethnic and economic factors shape the group’s decision-making about where to attack. We explore these competing motivations using spatial analysis of the Islamic State’s individual acts of violence from 2013–2017. We find that both areas with ethnic heterogeneity and valuable economic rents are associated with more individual Islamic State violent…
Mrs Thatcher's Approach to Leadership in Government: 1979-June 1983
Journal Article Mrs Thatcher's Approach to Leadership in Government: 1979–June 1983 Get access Martin Burch Martin Burch Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 36, Issue 4, 1983, Pages 399–416, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/36.4.399 Published: 01 October 1983
The Prime Minister's and cabinet offices: An Executive Office in All but Name
Journal Article The Prime Minister's and cabinet offices: an executive office in all but name Get access M Burch, M Burch University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar I Holliday I Holliday University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 1, January 1999, Pages 32–45, https://…
Book section. Explorations around the core executive
Journal Article Book section. Explorations around the core executive Get access M Burch M Burch University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 1, January 2001, Pages 139–141, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/54.1.139 Published: 01 January 2001
Local Fights in National Conflicts: Understanding the Location of Conflict Events during Intrastate Conflict
How do rebel groups determine their targets during intrastate conflict? We build upon two competing theories in conflict studies that emphasize either the social or economic determinants of violence during war and use geographic information systems (GIS) analysis to explore these competing theories. To do this, we utilize a subnational analysis of the most likely case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to understand whether ethnicity or natu…
(Re)entry from the Bottom Up: Case Study of a Critical Approach to Assisting Women Coming Home from Prison
An umbrella of legitimacy: Rebel faction size and external military intervention
How may the legitimacy of rebel groups shape the decisions of third-party states to support insurgencies militarily? In aiming to better understand how the (group-level) attributes of insurgencies motivate interventions on their behalf, we argue that the size of rebel forces serves as a proxy for a revolution’s perceived legitimacy within the international community. Specifically, we maintain that the larger the insurgency, the greater the insurg…
The emergence of splinter factions in intrastate conflict
Why do some rebel groups fractionalize during intrastate conflict? The focus of this article is on understanding a particular phenomenon within fragmentation during civil war: the emergence of viable splinter factions. Splinter factions are when a new rebel group emerges from an ongoing violent challenge against the state and concurrently launches their own violent campaign rather than continue to pool resources to mount a more effective fight. I…
Captive afterlives in the age of mass conviction
Criminal records have become an increasingly important mechanism for managing and containing criminalized populations beyond prison walls. This ethnographic analysis of a formerly imprisoned woman’s search for work explores how the feeling of captivity resonates not only with the imprisoned but also with the recently released
Scripting the Conviction: Power and Resistance in the Management of Criminal Stigma
People with criminal records seeking employment face a dilemma: how to discuss their conviction(s) in a job interview. Convicted job seekers are encouraged to draft, revise, and rehearse their "conviction scripts" and to approach their delivery as a Goffmanian performance. Drawing from participant observation within a nonprofit employment program in Southern California, this article analyzes job seekers' attempts to craft narratives that will sat…
Strategic Targeting: The Islamic State and Use of Violence in Iraq and Syria
What explains the specific location of Islamic State attacks in Syria and Iraq? We consider how both ethnic and economic factors shape the group’s decision-making about where to attack. We explore these competing motivations using spatial analysis of the Islamic State’s individual acts of violence from 2013–2017. We find that both areas with ethnic heterogeneity and valuable economic rents are associated with more individual Islamic State violent…
Geographies, Systems, Spaces, and Pictures: Scholars and Practitioners on Designing Against Infrastructures of Harm
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMelissa BurchMelissa Burch [email protected] BurrowesNicole Burrowes [email protected] LeBronMarisol LeBron [email protected] OkechukwuAmaka Okechukwu [email protected] RittnerJennifer Rittner [email protected] Justice + Designing SpacesDesigning Justice + Designing Spaces https://designingjustice.org/Paula AustinShana Agid [email protected] AgidPaula …
Fit to Protect: Race, Vulnerability, and the Risk Politics of California Firefighting
The Criminal Record Complex: Risk, Race, and the Struggle for Work in America
How a convergence of policy, law, and profit drives the use of criminal background checks in hiring Most employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictions—and thus denying opportunities to those who need them most. In this powerful analysis , Melissa Burch sheds light on one of the most significant forces of social and economic marginalization of our time—dis…
What It Means to Be Useful
Introduction: Abolition in/from the University
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