Emily Owens
Biographic Data
| ID | 192075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Owens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Owens |
| SIGNATURE | OWENS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8908-6001 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Strategic Cops and Robbers?
We propose a new framework to investigate whether criminals exhibit strategic behavior in response to the criminal law and their enforcement. Unique data on commercial robberies in Milan allow us to examine the decisions robbers make regarding weapon choice, number of accomplices, and the type of business targeted. Our analysis explores the relationship between these decisions, the expected return from the robbery, and the probability of arrest, …
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, Kathleen Hanna (2024)
Review of: Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk , Kathleen Hanna (2024) New York: Ecco, 326 pp., ISBN 978-0-06282-523-0, h/bk, $29.99
Smartphone Data Reveal Neighborhood-Level Racial Disparities in Police Presence
Research on policing has focused on documented actions such as stops and arrests—less is known about patrols and presence. We map the neighborhood movement of nearly 10,000 officers across 21 of America’s largest cities using anonymized smartphone data. Police spend 0.36% more time in neighborhoods for each percentage point increase in Black residents. This neighborhood-level disparity persists after controlling for density, socioeconomic status,…
The Lesbian Menace: Notes on Lesbian Studies, in Three Voices
This introduction to “Lesbian Studies, Now” reflects on the affective, intellectual, and political stakes of invoking “lesbian” as a generative scholarly category in the present as well as the three meanings of “now” that have shaped the coeditors’ curation of the issue. Framed by intergenerational dialogue among the editors, the introduction describes the genesis of this special issue, the scholarly collaboration that took place over years, the …
Economic Booms and Recidivism
Electronic Surveillance in Immigration Court: Evidence from the CalGang Database
Through a mixed-methods approach that draws on over 4000 pages of organizational documents and two quantitative data sets from federal and state entities, the authors ask, has the growth of electronic surveillance by local criminal justice agencies, with corresponding database interoperability and information sharing, changed how federal agencies—specifically immigration agencies—operate? We focus on the CalGang Database, California’s statewide g…
Punk Art History: Artworks from the European No Future Generation, Marie Arleth Skov (2023)
Review of: Punk Art History: Artworks from the European No Future Generation , Marie Arleth Skov (2023) Bristol: Intellect, 308 pp., ISBN 978-1-78938-700-1, p/bk, £29.95
Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde, Rebecca Binns (2022)
Review of: Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde , Rebecca Binns (2022) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 216 pp., ISBN 978-1-52614-789-9, p/bk, £20
Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans
Can text messages reduce incarceration in rural and vulnerable populations
Reducing failures to appear (FTA) in court is a top priority for criminal justice practitioners and advocates. However, existing work on reducing FTAs through text message reminders focuses on large urban jurisdictions and defendants who are housed. Using a field study in Shasta County, California, we evaluate whether text message outreach can increase court appearances for housed and unhoused populations. We find housed defendants randomly assig…
Doing Laundry with the Terf
TERF, or trans-exclusionary radical feminist, is a contemporary configuration that has gained traction in this feminist political moment to encapsulate an imagined set of generational tensions among feminists and queers with respect to gender's essential and/or expansive possibilities. It is also loaded with negative affect. This essay traces the ways that TERF travels in feminist dialogue-often alongside "lesbian"-and argues that loud disavowals…
Decolonize the Disenfranchised: Gregg Deal, Tutse Nakoekwu (Minor Threat) and the Disruption of Indigenous Stereotypes, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, USA, 28 January–1 March, 2022
Is Your Lawyer a Lemon? Incentives and Selection in the Public Provision of Criminal Defense
Governments in the United States must offer free legal services to low-income people accused of crimes. To provide these services, many jurisdictions rely on assigned counsel systems, where private attorneys represent indigent defendants on a contract basis. These defendants are more likely to be convicted and incarcerated than defendants with privately retained attorneys. Using detailed court records, we investigate the mechanisms behind this di…
Confinement, Interiority, Black Feminist Study: A Forum on Davis’s “Reflections” at 50
This Black feminist roundtable commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Angela Davis’s “Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves.” Contributors Sarah Haley, Shoniqua Roach
The Economics of Policing and Public Safety
The efficiency of any police action depends on the relative magnitude of its crime-reducing benefits and legitimacy costs. Policing strategies that are socially efficient at the city level may be harmful at the local level, because the distribution of direct costs and benefits of police actions that reduce victimization is not the same as the distribution of indirect benefits of feeling safe. In the United States, the local misallocation of polic…
Reproducing Racial Fictions: Critical Meditations on (a) Lesbian Pregnancy
This essay meditates on the incoherence of the history of race and family through the lens of contemporary lesbian pregnancy. The presence of two mothers—in this case, one white and one black—alongside the simultaneous irrelevance and hyperrelevance of paternity tugs at the tangled American historical threads of race and family in ways that ultimately surface a variety of fantasies that shape both. Here I consider the ways that lesbian reproducti…
Economic approach to “de‐policing”
Keyword 7
This essay frames contemporary antiviolence movements’ embrace of “consent” through its historical context. To the extent that consent has been a harbinger of liberal humanism, it has frequently sutured the freedom of some to the unfreedom of most. In particular, this essay explicates the necessary relationship of contract to consent’s logics and suggests that relying on consent in contemporary antiviolence discourse asserts the logic of transact…
The effectiveness and effects of alcohol regulation: Evidence from India
We provide quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of alcohol regulation on alcohol consumption and associated public health outcomes using detailed individual level and aggregate data from India, where state-level laws regulating the minimum legal drinking age generate substantial variation in the availability of commercially produced alcohol across people of different ages. We find that despite significant law evasion, men who are legally al…
Can You Build a Better Cop: Experimental Evidence on Supervision, Training, and Policing in the Community
Research Summary By drawing from psychology and economics, we present an experimental evaluation of a procedural justice training program designed to “slow down” police officers’ thought processes during citizen encounters. We find that officers who were randomly assigned to participate in training were as engaged in the community as similarly situated officers, but they were less likely to resolve incidents with an arrest or to be involved in in…
Your Friends and Neighbors: Localized Economic Development and Criminal Activity
We exploit a sudden shock to demand for a subset of low-wage workers generated by the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) program in San Antonio, Texas, to identify the effects of localized economic development on crime. We use a difference-in-differences methodology that takes advantage of variation in BRAC’s impact over time and across neighborhoods. We find that appropriative criminal behavior increases in neighborhoods where a fraction o…
Testing the School‐to‐Prison Pipeline
The School‐to‐Prison Pipeline is a social phenomenon where students become formally involved with the criminal justice system as a result of school policies that use law enforcement, rather than discipline, to address behavioral problems. A potentially important part of the School‐to‐Prison Pipeline is the use of sworn School Resource Officers (SROs), but there is little research on the causal effect of hiring these officers on school crime or ar…
Does federal financial aid affect college enrollment? Evidence from drug offenders and the Higher Education Act of 1998
Low-income housing development and crime
Cops and crime
Testing the School‐to‐Prison Pipeline
The School‐to‐Prison Pipeline is a social phenomenon where students become formally involved with the criminal justice system as a result of school policies that use law enforcement, rather than discipline, to address behavioral problems. A potentially important part of the School‐to‐Prison Pipeline is the use of sworn School Resource Officers (SROs), but there is little research on the causal effect of hiring these officers on school crime or ar…
Low-income housing development and crime
Can You Build a Better Cop: Experimental Evidence on Supervision, Training, and Policing in the Community
Research Summary By drawing from psychology and economics, we present an experimental evaluation of a procedural justice training program designed to “slow down” police officers’ thought processes during citizen encounters. We find that officers who were randomly assigned to participate in training were as engaged in the community as similarly situated officers, but they were less likely to resolve incidents with an arrest or to be involved in in…
Does federal financial aid affect college enrollment? Evidence from drug offenders and the Higher Education Act of 1998
Development Reconsidered. Bridging the Gap Between Government and People
Journal Article Development Reconsidered. Bridging the Gap Between Government and People Get access Development Reconsidered. Bridging the Gap Between Government and People. By E. Owens and R. Shaw. (Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1972. Pp. xix + 190. £3.20.) Tom Soper Tom Soper London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 83, Issue 332, 1 December 1973, Pages 1319–1321, …
Doing Laundry with the Terf
TERF, or trans-exclusionary radical feminist, is a contemporary configuration that has gained traction in this feminist political moment to encapsulate an imagined set of generational tensions among feminists and queers with respect to gender's essential and/or expansive possibilities. It is also loaded with negative affect. This essay traces the ways that TERF travels in feminist dialogue-often alongside "lesbian"-and argues that loud disavowals…
The effectiveness and effects of alcohol regulation: Evidence from India
We provide quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of alcohol regulation on alcohol consumption and associated public health outcomes using detailed individual level and aggregate data from India, where state-level laws regulating the minimum legal drinking age generate substantial variation in the availability of commercially produced alcohol across people of different ages. We find that despite significant law evasion, men who are legally al…
Economic approach to “de‐policing”
Keyword 7
This essay frames contemporary antiviolence movements’ embrace of “consent” through its historical context. To the extent that consent has been a harbinger of liberal humanism, it has frequently sutured the freedom of some to the unfreedom of most. In particular, this essay explicates the necessary relationship of contract to consent’s logics and suggests that relying on consent in contemporary antiviolence discourse asserts the logic of transact…
The Economics of Policing and Public Safety
The efficiency of any police action depends on the relative magnitude of its crime-reducing benefits and legitimacy costs. Policing strategies that are socially efficient at the city level may be harmful at the local level, because the distribution of direct costs and benefits of police actions that reduce victimization is not the same as the distribution of indirect benefits of feeling safe. In the United States, the local misallocation of polic…
Can text messages reduce incarceration in rural and vulnerable populations
Reducing failures to appear (FTA) in court is a top priority for criminal justice practitioners and advocates. However, existing work on reducing FTAs through text message reminders focuses on large urban jurisdictions and defendants who are housed. Using a field study in Shasta County, California, we evaluate whether text message outreach can increase court appearances for housed and unhoused populations. We find housed defendants randomly assig…
Confinement, Interiority, Black Feminist Study: A Forum on Davis’s “Reflections” at 50
This Black feminist roundtable commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Angela Davis’s “Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves.” Contributors Sarah Haley, Shoniqua Roach
Development Reconsidered. Bridging the Gap Between Government and People
Journal Article Development Reconsidered. Bridging the Gap Between Government and People Get access Development Reconsidered. Bridging the Gap Between Government and People. By E. Owens and R. Shaw. (Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1972. Pp. xix + 190. £3.20.) Tom Soper Tom Soper London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 83, Issue 332, 1 December 1973, Pages 1319–1321, …
Cops and crime
Low-income housing development and crime
Does federal financial aid affect college enrollment? Evidence from drug offenders and the Higher Education Act of 1998
Your Friends and Neighbors: Localized Economic Development and Criminal Activity
We exploit a sudden shock to demand for a subset of low-wage workers generated by the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) program in San Antonio, Texas, to identify the effects of localized economic development on crime. We use a difference-in-differences methodology that takes advantage of variation in BRAC’s impact over time and across neighborhoods. We find that appropriative criminal behavior increases in neighborhoods where a fraction o…
Testing the School‐to‐Prison Pipeline
The School‐to‐Prison Pipeline is a social phenomenon where students become formally involved with the criminal justice system as a result of school policies that use law enforcement, rather than discipline, to address behavioral problems. A potentially important part of the School‐to‐Prison Pipeline is the use of sworn School Resource Officers (SROs), but there is little research on the causal effect of hiring these officers on school crime or ar…
Can You Build a Better Cop: Experimental Evidence on Supervision, Training, and Policing in the Community
Research Summary By drawing from psychology and economics, we present an experimental evaluation of a procedural justice training program designed to “slow down” police officers’ thought processes during citizen encounters. We find that officers who were randomly assigned to participate in training were as engaged in the community as similarly situated officers, but they were less likely to resolve incidents with an arrest or to be involved in in…
Reproducing Racial Fictions: Critical Meditations on (a) Lesbian Pregnancy
This essay meditates on the incoherence of the history of race and family through the lens of contemporary lesbian pregnancy. The presence of two mothers—in this case, one white and one black—alongside the simultaneous irrelevance and hyperrelevance of paternity tugs at the tangled American historical threads of race and family in ways that ultimately surface a variety of fantasies that shape both. Here I consider the ways that lesbian reproducti…
Economic approach to “de‐policing”
Keyword 7
This essay frames contemporary antiviolence movements’ embrace of “consent” through its historical context. To the extent that consent has been a harbinger of liberal humanism, it has frequently sutured the freedom of some to the unfreedom of most. In particular, this essay explicates the necessary relationship of contract to consent’s logics and suggests that relying on consent in contemporary antiviolence discourse asserts the logic of transact…
The effectiveness and effects of alcohol regulation: Evidence from India
We provide quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of alcohol regulation on alcohol consumption and associated public health outcomes using detailed individual level and aggregate data from India, where state-level laws regulating the minimum legal drinking age generate substantial variation in the availability of commercially produced alcohol across people of different ages. We find that despite significant law evasion, men who are legally al…
Is Your Lawyer a Lemon? Incentives and Selection in the Public Provision of Criminal Defense
Governments in the United States must offer free legal services to low-income people accused of crimes. To provide these services, many jurisdictions rely on assigned counsel systems, where private attorneys represent indigent defendants on a contract basis. These defendants are more likely to be convicted and incarcerated than defendants with privately retained attorneys. Using detailed court records, we investigate the mechanisms behind this di…
Confinement, Interiority, Black Feminist Study: A Forum on Davis’s “Reflections” at 50
This Black feminist roundtable commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Angela Davis’s “Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves.” Contributors Sarah Haley, Shoniqua Roach
The Economics of Policing and Public Safety
The efficiency of any police action depends on the relative magnitude of its crime-reducing benefits and legitimacy costs. Policing strategies that are socially efficient at the city level may be harmful at the local level, because the distribution of direct costs and benefits of police actions that reduce victimization is not the same as the distribution of indirect benefits of feeling safe. In the United States, the local misallocation of polic…
Decolonize the Disenfranchised: Gregg Deal, Tutse Nakoekwu (Minor Threat) and the Disruption of Indigenous Stereotypes, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, USA, 28 January–1 March, 2022
Punk Art History: Artworks from the European No Future Generation, Marie Arleth Skov (2023)
Review of: Punk Art History: Artworks from the European No Future Generation , Marie Arleth Skov (2023) Bristol: Intellect, 308 pp., ISBN 978-1-78938-700-1, p/bk, £29.95
Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde, Rebecca Binns (2022)
Review of: Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde , Rebecca Binns (2022) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 216 pp., ISBN 978-1-52614-789-9, p/bk, £20
Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women's Survival in Antebellum New Orleans
Can text messages reduce incarceration in rural and vulnerable populations
Reducing failures to appear (FTA) in court is a top priority for criminal justice practitioners and advocates. However, existing work on reducing FTAs through text message reminders focuses on large urban jurisdictions and defendants who are housed. Using a field study in Shasta County, California, we evaluate whether text message outreach can increase court appearances for housed and unhoused populations. We find housed defendants randomly assig…
Doing Laundry with the Terf
TERF, or trans-exclusionary radical feminist, is a contemporary configuration that has gained traction in this feminist political moment to encapsulate an imagined set of generational tensions among feminists and queers with respect to gender's essential and/or expansive possibilities. It is also loaded with negative affect. This essay traces the ways that TERF travels in feminist dialogue-often alongside "lesbian"-and argues that loud disavowals…
Economic Booms and Recidivism
Electronic Surveillance in Immigration Court: Evidence from the CalGang Database
Through a mixed-methods approach that draws on over 4000 pages of organizational documents and two quantitative data sets from federal and state entities, the authors ask, has the growth of electronic surveillance by local criminal justice agencies, with corresponding database interoperability and information sharing, changed how federal agencies—specifically immigration agencies—operate? We focus on the CalGang Database, California’s statewide g…
Strategic Cops and Robbers?
We propose a new framework to investigate whether criminals exhibit strategic behavior in response to the criminal law and their enforcement. Unique data on commercial robberies in Milan allow us to examine the decisions robbers make regarding weapon choice, number of accomplices, and the type of business targeted. Our analysis explores the relationship between these decisions, the expected return from the robbery, and the probability of arrest, …
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, Kathleen Hanna (2024)
Review of: Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk , Kathleen Hanna (2024) New York: Ecco, 326 pp., ISBN 978-0-06282-523-0, h/bk, $29.99
Smartphone Data Reveal Neighborhood-Level Racial Disparities in Police Presence
Research on policing has focused on documented actions such as stops and arrests—less is known about patrols and presence. We map the neighborhood movement of nearly 10,000 officers across 21 of America’s largest cities using anonymized smartphone data. Police spend 0.36% more time in neighborhoods for each percentage point increase in Black residents. This neighborhood-level disparity persists after controlling for density, socioeconomic status,…
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