Steve Herbert

Biographic Data

ID3685591
NAMESteve Herbert
GIVEN NAMESSteve
FAMILY NAMEHerbert
SIGNATUREHERBERT S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Washington
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS49
TOTAL CITATIONS781
AUTHOR COUNT49
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX15

  • Degradation or Redemption? A Parole Board Polices a Moral Boundary

    Open AccessSteve HerbertARTICLELaw & Social Inquiry2022Cited by: 9References: 13

    Parole boards possess the notable power to grant release from prison, oftentimes well short of an incarcerated person’s legally allowable length of sentence. Although the exercise of that power is, at least in part, governed by law, extralegal considerations likely play an influential part in decisions to grant release. Indeed, the analysis offered here of parole board hearings in Washington State reveals, in particular, the work that board membe…

  • Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the Lapd

    Open AccessSteve HerbertARTICLEJournal of American History2020Cited by: 5

  • Too Easy to Keep: Life-Sentenced Prisoners and the Future of Mass Incarceration

    Open AccessSteve HerbertBOOKToo Easy to Keep2019

    “Some guys don’t break any rules. They do their jobs, they go to school, they don’t commit any infractions, they keep their cells clean and tidy, and they follow the rules. And usually those are our LWOPs [life without parole]. They’re usually our easiest keepers.” Too Easy to Keep directs much-needed attention toward a neglected group of American prisoners—the large and growing population of inmates serving life sentences. Drawing on extensive i…

  • Too Easy to Keep: Life-Sentenced Prisoners and the Future of Mass Incarceration

    Steve HerbertBOOKToo Easy to Keep2018

    Life-sentenced prisoners are a growing proportion of America’s incarcerated population. Too Easy to Keep provides a thorough assessment of the consequences of this monumental shift. It examines the implications of growing numbers of life sentences for both prisoners serving that sentence and the prisons that house them. It draws upon extensive interviews with life-sentenced prisoners and prison staff in two Washington facilities. The data demonst…

  • Policing European metropolises: The politics of security in city-regions

    Steve HerbertARTICLEPolicing & Society2018Cited by: 1

  • Qualitative Data, Acquisition

    Open AccessSteve HerbertCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of…2017

    This entry reviews some of the central challenges that a qualitative researcher faces in acquiring useful data. The focus is upon the two key modes of qualitative data gathering – ethnography and interviews. The entry reviews the key strengths and weaknesses of each of these methods, and considers when each might be employed most productively. As will be clear, gathering high‐quality qualitative data is neither quick nor easy, yet such data enabl…

  • Inside or outside? Expanding the narratives about life-sentenced prisoners

    Open AccessSteve HerbertARTICLEPunishment & Society2017Cited by: 2References: 9

    The number of life-sentenced prisoners in the United States is growing, an increase that deserves ongoing critical consideration. Such consideration is heightened by the fact that many lifers undergo significant personal transformations during their incarceration. This paper uses interviews with 21 life-sentenced prisoners in the state of Washington to document the degree of such transformations. These transformations create compelling questions …

  • Policing Social Marginality: Contrasting Approaches

    Open AccessSteve Herbert, Katherine Beckett et al.ARTICLELaw & Social Inquiry2017Cited by: 32References: 5

    Urban police officers concentrate much attention on individuals who experience various forms of inequality. Some police tactics that address the socially marginal garner public concern, especially when violence occurs. Solutions to such police-community tensions are elusive, in part because police cannot meaningfully reduce inequality. Yet there are better and worse ways to police the impoverished, and we use this article to contrast three genera…

  • Fear and Loathing in the San Juan Islands: Endangered Orcas and the Legitimacy of Environmental Law

    Open AccessSteve HerbertARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2014References: 51

    Although a healthy environment is generally recognized as an important public good, environmental regulation often meets significant opposition. The legitimacy of environmental law is thus very much an uncertain political project, as is evident in many struggles over environmental protection. I use and extend literatures on legal consciousness, legal geographies, and environmental regulation to analyze a controversy that emerged over efforts to r…

  • The Regulation of Environmental Space

    Open AccessSteve Herbert, Brandon Barclay Derman et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Law and Social…2013Cited by: 4References: 37

    The need to regulate environmental problems is of ever-increasing urgency. Yet the complexity of environmental dynamics challenges any regulatory scheme. We use this essay to describe and assess some of these challenges. We deploy the terms scope and scale as analytic tools in this effort. We define and elaborate on these terms and then use them to analyze three especially critical dilemmas in environmental regulation: the fit between environment…

  • Introduction: Engaging Qualitative Geography

    Dydia Delyser, Aitken et al.CHAPTERThe SAGE Handbook of Qualitative…2010

  • The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Geography

    Dydia Delyser, Steve Herbert et al.BOOKThe SAGE Handbook of Qualitative…2010

    "After a heyday of dominance in the 1950s and 1960s, quantitative methods have been joined by an increased use of qualitative methods in research (Eyles and Smith, 1998; Limb and Dwyer, 2001; Hay, 2005; DeLyser, 2008). Indeed, Iain Hay (2005: 10) argues that, ‘In the last twenty-five years the pendulum of geographical methods within human geography has swung firmly from quantitative to qualitative methods ... Qualitative methods have been in the …

  • From Spy to Okay Guy: Trust and Validity in Fieldwork With the Police

    Open AccessSteve HerbertARTICLEGeographical Review2010

  • Penal Boundaries: Banishment and the Expansion of Punishment

    Open AccessKatherine Beckett, Steve HerbertARTICLELaw & Social Inquiry2010Cited by: 52References: 11

    We use this article to argue for greater recognition of legally imposed spatial exclusion—banishment—as a (re)emerging and consequential social control practice. Although the new social control techniques that entail banishment are buttressed by a blend of civil, administrative, and criminal law, they are best understood as punitive in nature. This argument is supported by two empirical findings. First, interviews with the banished indicate that …

  • Contemporary geographies of exclusion III: To assist or punish

    Open AccessSteve HerbertARTICLEProgress in Human Geography2010Cited by: 6References: 23

    Processes of inclusion and exclusion raise profound questions. As scholars of exclusion, we need to determine where to train our focus; as citizens, we need to determine whether and how exclusion is deleterious. When exclusion is pursued as a form of punishment, it is most readily open to question. This review of recent literature makes clear that scholarship on exclusion is robust, multifaceted, and necessary

  • From the South Side to Susanville: Tracing the Logics and Geographies of Contemporary Segregation

    Steve HerbertARTICLEUrban Geography2010Cited by: 2References: 1

    I use this commentary on Loïc Wacquant's Urban Outcasts to extend his analysis beyond cities to rural areas. In the United States in particular, the marginalization and punishment of the urban poor finds expression in a robust landscape of incarceration in small towns. Prisoners from cities become economic inputs for depressed rural places, and reform the local workplace in ways that deserve interrogation. In all of these transformations, the uni…

  • This is home for us: Questioning Banishment From the Ground Up

    Steve Herbert, Katherine BeckettARTICLESocial & Cultural Geography2010Cited by: 25References: 2

    Banishment is an increasingly common tool for urban social control. In Seattle and other cities, new tools give the police stronger authority to create and enforce zones of exclusion. Deployed most commonly in neighborhoods populated by homeless people and members of other disadvantaged populations, banishment orders seek to coerce individuals to relocate. As an attempt to reduce crime and disorder, however, we suggest that banishment fails. We d…

  • Banished: The New Social Control In Urban America

    Katherine Beckett, Steve HerbertBOOKBanished2009

    With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other “disorderly” people continue to occupy public space in many American cities. Concerned about the alleged ill effects their presence inflicts on property values and public safety, many cities have wholeheartedly embraced “zero-tolerance” or “broken window” policing efforts to clear the streets of unwanted people. Through an almost completely unnoticed set of prac…

  • Contemporary geographies of exclusion II: Lessons from Iowa

    Open AccessSteve HerbertARTICLEProgress in Human Geography2009Cited by: 9References: 19

    Processes of exclusion both presuppose and reinforce boundaries. Yet the realities of globalization mean that such political and cultural boundaries are regularly and increasingly transgressed. Cross-border traffic is simultaneously encouraged and feared; migrants who are welcomed because of their labor are often shunned because of their difference. Because of the tensions generated by the inevitable co-mingling in everyday space between insiders…

  • Inclusion under the Law as Exclusion from the City: Negotiating the Spatial Limitation of Citizenship in Seattle

    Open AccessJohn Carr, Elizabeth Brown et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2009Cited by: 9References: 45

    We use this paper to argue that the contemporary tendency of urban governments to exclude a host of 'undesirables' from the city-such as the homeless, teens of color, and prostitutes-must be seen as part of a broader process by which the law includes, weighs, and assesses all urban denizens. We use three case studies from Seattle to demonstrate how the law enacts a vision of urban form which reflects and spatially enforces core normative liberal …

  • Coercion, Territoriality, Legitimacy: The Police and the Modern State

    Steve HerbertCHAPTERThe Sage Handbook of Political…2008

  • Dealing with disorder: Social control in the post-industrial city

    Open AccessKatherine Beckett, Steve HerbertARTICLETheoretical Criminology2008Cited by: 74References: 8

    Over the past two decades, municipal governments across the United States have adopted novel social control techniques including off-limits orders, parks exclusion laws, and other applications of trespass law. These new tools are used to exclude the socially marginal from contested public spaces. These new social control techniques fuse criminal and civil legal authority and are touted as `alternatives' to arrest and incarceration. Ironically, th…

  • Contemporary geographies of exclusion I: Traversing Skid Road

    Open AccessSteve HerbertARTICLEProgress in Human Geography2008Cited by: 17References: 26

  • Introduction—the Policing of Immigration

    Steve HerbertARTICLEUrban Geography2008Cited by: 2References: 3

    (2008). Introduction—the Policing of Immigration. Urban Geography: Vol. 29, Policing Immigration, pp. 1-3

  • Riding Along with Police

    Open AccessAnita M Waters, Antonius Cgm Robben et al.ARTICLEJournal of Legal Anthropology2008References: 4

    In the summer of 2008 I sent out a call to thirty former students from three semesters between 2000 and 2005, to reflect on what they learned from the “ride-alongs” with police, whether the project has changed their views on social order and the state, on the practice of law enforcement, and on the process of gathering knowledge about social life in general. Ten responded, and their ideas show that the experience of police ethnography had a consi…