Armando Lara‐millán
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3594866 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Armando Lara‐millán |
| NOMBRES | Armando |
| APELLIDO | Lara‐millán |
| FIRMA | MILLÁN A L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8948-8895 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 192 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Digital Platforms and the Maintenance of the Urban Order
Neighborhood digital platforms - such as Nextdoor, Citizen, Neighbors, anti-crime Facebook groups, Ring surveillance technology, and 311 see-click-fix applications - are recent entrants into urban life. Existing accounts suggest they help build intra-community relationships, but that they also amplify paranoia, racism, and carceral impulses of American homeowners. We ask: how is the new technology increasing solidarity and exclusionary impulses, …
The American 'doc fix
The extraordinary growth of healthcare spending in the United States necessitates an incremental model of institutional change. Efforts to reduce social spending in the 1980s introduced strict cost controls on healthcare, yet this regulation was annually abated with temporary legislation known as 'doc fixes'. We show that the institutions set up to control spending were slowly undermined through three mechanisms: the transformation of wider polit…
Constructing Community
The Administrative Disappearing of State Crisis
That modern states make use of legibility projects to exert social control is widely acknowledged. Much less understood is how state actors resolve crisis situations that severely undermine and disincentivize the use of legibility. These are situations in which public officials confront rapid declines in budgetary resources at the exact same time that new legal rules or pressure forces them to expand access to services. In order to understand wha…
Redistributing the Poor
Whenever the topic of large jails and public hospitals in urban America is raised, a single idea comes to mind. It is widely believed that because we as a society have dis-invested from public health, the sick and poor now find themselves within the purview of criminal justice institutions. In Redistributing the Poor, ethnographer and historical sociologist Armando Lara-Millan takes us into the day-to-day operations of running the largest hospita…
Theorizing financial extraction
Existing models of financial extraction in the criminal justice system are applied to the case of profitable telephone contracts in the Los Angeles County jails during the mid-1990s. The case exemplifies instances of a “punishment” model of monetary sanctions, in which profits are derived for crime control purposes, and a “predation” model, in which inmates are seen as potential resources to absolve fiscal crisis and create market opportunities. …
Theorizing with Archives
Archival Work as Qualitative Sociology
Interorganizational Utility of Welfare Stigma in the Criminal Justice System
The appropriation of “welfare stigma” or stereotypes about poor people's overreliance and abuse of public aid in two core criminal justice functions is examined: felony adjudication in a court system and space allocation in a jail. Through a comparative ethnographic study in which an abductive analysis of data (20 months of fieldwork) was used, we show that criminal justice gatekeepers utilize welfare stigma to create stricter eligibility criteri…
Public Emergency Room Overcrowding in the Era of Mass Imprisonment
Although sociologists have long studied public emergency rooms (ERs) and their service delivery to the urban poor, little is known about how crime control and criminal justice contact affect ER admission decisions-a critical oversight given the documented increase in incarceration rates, intensification of policing, and proliferation of crime control language in public institutions. Using ethnographic methods and a count of ER admission decisions…
Public Emergency Room Overcrowding in the Era of Mass Imprisonment
Although sociologists have long studied public emergency rooms (ERs) and their service delivery to the urban poor, little is known about how crime control and criminal justice contact affect ER admission decisions-a critical oversight given the documented increase in incarceration rates, intensification of policing, and proliferation of crime control language in public institutions. Using ethnographic methods and a count of ER admission decisions…
Interorganizational Utility of Welfare Stigma in the Criminal Justice System
The appropriation of “welfare stigma” or stereotypes about poor people's overreliance and abuse of public aid in two core criminal justice functions is examined: felony adjudication in a court system and space allocation in a jail. Through a comparative ethnographic study in which an abductive analysis of data (20 months of fieldwork) was used, we show that criminal justice gatekeepers utilize welfare stigma to create stricter eligibility criteri…
Theorizing with Archives
Archival Work as Qualitative Sociology
The Administrative Disappearing of State Crisis
That modern states make use of legibility projects to exert social control is widely acknowledged. Much less understood is how state actors resolve crisis situations that severely undermine and disincentivize the use of legibility. These are situations in which public officials confront rapid declines in budgetary resources at the exact same time that new legal rules or pressure forces them to expand access to services. In order to understand wha…
Theorizing financial extraction
Existing models of financial extraction in the criminal justice system are applied to the case of profitable telephone contracts in the Los Angeles County jails during the mid-1990s. The case exemplifies instances of a “punishment” model of monetary sanctions, in which profits are derived for crime control purposes, and a “predation” model, in which inmates are seen as potential resources to absolve fiscal crisis and create market opportunities. …
The American 'doc fix
The extraordinary growth of healthcare spending in the United States necessitates an incremental model of institutional change. Efforts to reduce social spending in the 1980s introduced strict cost controls on healthcare, yet this regulation was annually abated with temporary legislation known as 'doc fixes'. We show that the institutions set up to control spending were slowly undermined through three mechanisms: the transformation of wider polit…
Public Emergency Room Overcrowding in the Era of Mass Imprisonment
Although sociologists have long studied public emergency rooms (ERs) and their service delivery to the urban poor, little is known about how crime control and criminal justice contact affect ER admission decisions-a critical oversight given the documented increase in incarceration rates, intensification of policing, and proliferation of crime control language in public institutions. Using ethnographic methods and a count of ER admission decisions…
Interorganizational Utility of Welfare Stigma in the Criminal Justice System
The appropriation of “welfare stigma” or stereotypes about poor people's overreliance and abuse of public aid in two core criminal justice functions is examined: felony adjudication in a court system and space allocation in a jail. Through a comparative ethnographic study in which an abductive analysis of data (20 months of fieldwork) was used, we show that criminal justice gatekeepers utilize welfare stigma to create stricter eligibility criteri…
Theorizing financial extraction
Existing models of financial extraction in the criminal justice system are applied to the case of profitable telephone contracts in the Los Angeles County jails during the mid-1990s. The case exemplifies instances of a “punishment” model of monetary sanctions, in which profits are derived for crime control purposes, and a “predation” model, in which inmates are seen as potential resources to absolve fiscal crisis and create market opportunities. …
Theorizing with Archives
Archival Work as Qualitative Sociology
Redistributing the Poor
Whenever the topic of large jails and public hospitals in urban America is raised, a single idea comes to mind. It is widely believed that because we as a society have dis-invested from public health, the sick and poor now find themselves within the purview of criminal justice institutions. In Redistributing the Poor, ethnographer and historical sociologist Armando Lara-Millan takes us into the day-to-day operations of running the largest hospita…
The Administrative Disappearing of State Crisis
That modern states make use of legibility projects to exert social control is widely acknowledged. Much less understood is how state actors resolve crisis situations that severely undermine and disincentivize the use of legibility. These are situations in which public officials confront rapid declines in budgetary resources at the exact same time that new legal rules or pressure forces them to expand access to services. In order to understand wha…
Constructing Community
The American 'doc fix
The extraordinary growth of healthcare spending in the United States necessitates an incremental model of institutional change. Efforts to reduce social spending in the 1980s introduced strict cost controls on healthcare, yet this regulation was annually abated with temporary legislation known as 'doc fixes'. We show that the institutions set up to control spending were slowly undermined through three mechanisms: the transformation of wider polit…
Digital Platforms and the Maintenance of the Urban Order
Neighborhood digital platforms - such as Nextdoor, Citizen, Neighbors, anti-crime Facebook groups, Ring surveillance technology, and 311 see-click-fix applications - are recent entrants into urban life. Existing accounts suggest they help build intra-community relationships, but that they also amplify paranoia, racism, and carceral impulses of American homeowners. We ask: how is the new technology increasing solidarity and exclusionary impulses, …
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