Dallas Augustine
Biographic Data
| ID | 3979311 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dallas Augustine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dallas |
| FAMILY NAME | Augustine |
| SIGNATURE | AUGUSTINE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Jose State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6846-6929 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“Everybody out there in the real world is one paycheck away from being homeless”: Job loss and housing precarity among people experiencing homelessness
The United States has fewer labor protections and wage guarantees than most wealthy industrialized nations; thus, workers can fall into economic hardship by the loss of employment, reduction in work hours, or work-related accidents or injuries. Even when fully employed, low wage workers typically face substantial rent burdens, which place them at risk for being evicted from their homes and ultimately falling into homelessness. This paper examines…
Understanding the Impact of Structural Racism and Violence Across the Lifespan on Overdose Vulnerability Among Black San Franciscans Experiencing Homelessness
Overdose in California is highly racialized, with Black Californians experiencing excessive mortality. People experiencing homelessness (PEH) report high rates of fentanyl-stimulant co-use and drug-related harm. There is limited research examining structural racism and intersectional violence of policing, homelessness, and overdose throughout the lifespan of Black people. POLY HOME is a qualitative study among PEH who fentanyl and stimulants in S…
Getting boxed in: How race and gang labeling shape solitary confinement use
Restrictive housing imposes isolation in austere conditions on people who commit serious rule violations or are too dangerous (or endangered) to house in the general prison population. We contribute to a growing body of scholarship analyzing restrictive housing placements, asking how gang membership, race/ethnicity, and misconduct interact to predict placement and lengths of stay. We integrate analysis of qualitative interviews with a random samp…
Homelessness Following Jail Exit Among Previously Housed Individuals
Incarceration is a recognized risk factor for homelessness. However, most research focuses on the relationship between homelessness and prison incarceration. Jail incarceration is more common compared to prison incarceration, but little data exists on its impact on housing. The objective of this study is to examine the occurrence of housing loss after jail incarceration among individuals without prior evidence of homelessness and the associated r…
Unexceptional Patterns of Solitary Confinement: Cycling and Re-entry Shocks Within the Prison
Combining analysis of 186 longitudinal interviews with robust administrative data, we document how people in prison in Washington state experience solitary confinement not once over one long period, but repeatedly over an average of 6.3 shorter ‘spells’ during their incarceration, followed by periods of adjustment as people re-enter the less restrictive general prison population. We identify three categories of shocks people experience across rep…
Methodological Lessons Learned From a Longitudinal Study of Overdose Vulnerability Among People Experiencing Homelessness Who Co-use Fentanyl and Stimulants in San Francisco, CA, USA
The U.S. overdose crisis is now driven by polysubstance use involving fentanyl and stimulants. We received funding through the National Institutes on Drug Abuse’s Helping to End Addiction Long-Term (HEAL) initiative to conduct longitudinal qualitative research on polysubstance use among people experiencing homelessness (PEH) in San Francisco, California. An Intersectional Risk Environment Framework was used to examine the interaction between soci…
Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage
Against optimization: Solitary confinement and the research-policy nexus
Deconstructing the Power Dynamics of Prison Research
This article examines methodological dilemmas surrounding entrée, emotion, and epistemology that can arise when conducting qualitative research in carceral settings. We address how our research team navigated consent and presentations of self for maintaining access; how they managed empathy and the emotional toll of conducting research in adversarial settings; and how conflicting narratives raised questions about data validity and knowledge const…
Coerced work during parole: Prevalence, mechanisms, and characteristics
Coerced work on parole occurs when people are required to work under the threat of criminal legal repercussions. In the face of barriers to “good” work for people after prison, coercion helps to funnel parolees into positions at the bottom of the labor market. Parolee workers in these positions experience issues common to precarious, low‐wage work (low pay, hazardous working conditions, and labor law violations), as well as heightened vulnerabili…
Community Supervision, Housing Insecurity, and Homelessness
In recent decades, the United States has seen the simultaneous rise of mass incarceration and homelessness. The two crises are driven by the same structural factors and interact with one another, exacerbating their detrimental effects in a feedback loop. People under community supervision face many barriers to housing, putting them at high risk of experiencing homelessness in the months following release. People who experience homelessness are at…
“We just needed to open the door”: A case study of the quest to end solitary confinement in North Dakota
Solitary confinement is a widespread practice in US correctional facilities. Long-standing concerns about the physical and mental health effects of solitary confinement have led to litigation, legislation, and community activism resulting in many prison systems introducing policies or implementing legal mandates to reduce or eliminate its use. Yet little is known about the nature and effectiveness of policies that states have adopted to reduce th…
Window dressing: Possibilities and limitations of incremental changes in solitary confinement
Psychological Distress in Solitary Confinement: Symptoms, Severity, and Prevalence in the United States, 2017–2018
Objectives. To specify symptoms and measure prevalence of psychological distress among incarcerated people in long-term solitary confinement. Methods. We gathered data via semistructured, in-depth interviews; Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) assessments; and systematic reviews of medical and disciplinary files for 106 randomly selected people in solitary confinement in the Washington State Department of Corrections in 2017. We performed 1-ye…
Employer aversion to criminal records: An experimental study of mechanisms
The mark of a criminal record is clearly harmful for employment. The reasons for employer aversion, however, are not well established even though legal, policy, and scholarly responses rely on particular explanations. We propose that explanations for aversion often fit under a repetition risk framework in which employers use records as neutral sources of information about prior illegal activity and make decisions to minimize risk of similar futur…
Working around the Law: Navigating Legal Barriers to Employment during Reentry
Employment has been cited as one of the most effective protections against recidivism for formerly incarcerated people; however, job seekers with criminal records face barriers to employment after prison. They find themselves in a legal double bind where they are simultaneously compelled to obey the law (by finding “legit” work) but also legally barred from doing so. To navigate this conflictual legal positioning, job seekers with felony records …
Employer aversion to criminal records: An experimental study of mechanisms
The mark of a criminal record is clearly harmful for employment. The reasons for employer aversion, however, are not well established even though legal, policy, and scholarly responses rely on particular explanations. We propose that explanations for aversion often fit under a repetition risk framework in which employers use records as neutral sources of information about prior illegal activity and make decisions to minimize risk of similar futur…
Working around the Law: Navigating Legal Barriers to Employment during Reentry
Employment has been cited as one of the most effective protections against recidivism for formerly incarcerated people; however, job seekers with criminal records face barriers to employment after prison. They find themselves in a legal double bind where they are simultaneously compelled to obey the law (by finding “legit” work) but also legally barred from doing so. To navigate this conflictual legal positioning, job seekers with felony records …
Psychological Distress in Solitary Confinement: Symptoms, Severity, and Prevalence in the United States, 2017–2018
Objectives. To specify symptoms and measure prevalence of psychological distress among incarcerated people in long-term solitary confinement. Methods. We gathered data via semistructured, in-depth interviews; Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) assessments; and systematic reviews of medical and disciplinary files for 106 randomly selected people in solitary confinement in the Washington State Department of Corrections in 2017. We performed 1-ye…
Coerced work during parole: Prevalence, mechanisms, and characteristics
Coerced work on parole occurs when people are required to work under the threat of criminal legal repercussions. In the face of barriers to “good” work for people after prison, coercion helps to funnel parolees into positions at the bottom of the labor market. Parolee workers in these positions experience issues common to precarious, low‐wage work (low pay, hazardous working conditions, and labor law violations), as well as heightened vulnerabili…
Community Supervision, Housing Insecurity, and Homelessness
In recent decades, the United States has seen the simultaneous rise of mass incarceration and homelessness. The two crises are driven by the same structural factors and interact with one another, exacerbating their detrimental effects in a feedback loop. People under community supervision face many barriers to housing, putting them at high risk of experiencing homelessness in the months following release. People who experience homelessness are at…
Working around the Law: Navigating Legal Barriers to Employment during Reentry
Employment has been cited as one of the most effective protections against recidivism for formerly incarcerated people; however, job seekers with criminal records face barriers to employment after prison. They find themselves in a legal double bind where they are simultaneously compelled to obey the law (by finding “legit” work) but also legally barred from doing so. To navigate this conflictual legal positioning, job seekers with felony records …
Psychological Distress in Solitary Confinement: Symptoms, Severity, and Prevalence in the United States, 2017–2018
Objectives. To specify symptoms and measure prevalence of psychological distress among incarcerated people in long-term solitary confinement. Methods. We gathered data via semistructured, in-depth interviews; Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) assessments; and systematic reviews of medical and disciplinary files for 106 randomly selected people in solitary confinement in the Washington State Department of Corrections in 2017. We performed 1-ye…
Employer aversion to criminal records: An experimental study of mechanisms
The mark of a criminal record is clearly harmful for employment. The reasons for employer aversion, however, are not well established even though legal, policy, and scholarly responses rely on particular explanations. We propose that explanations for aversion often fit under a repetition risk framework in which employers use records as neutral sources of information about prior illegal activity and make decisions to minimize risk of similar futur…
“We just needed to open the door”: A case study of the quest to end solitary confinement in North Dakota
Solitary confinement is a widespread practice in US correctional facilities. Long-standing concerns about the physical and mental health effects of solitary confinement have led to litigation, legislation, and community activism resulting in many prison systems introducing policies or implementing legal mandates to reduce or eliminate its use. Yet little is known about the nature and effectiveness of policies that states have adopted to reduce th…
Window dressing: Possibilities and limitations of incremental changes in solitary confinement
Community Supervision, Housing Insecurity, and Homelessness
In recent decades, the United States has seen the simultaneous rise of mass incarceration and homelessness. The two crises are driven by the same structural factors and interact with one another, exacerbating their detrimental effects in a feedback loop. People under community supervision face many barriers to housing, putting them at high risk of experiencing homelessness in the months following release. People who experience homelessness are at…
Deconstructing the Power Dynamics of Prison Research
This article examines methodological dilemmas surrounding entrée, emotion, and epistemology that can arise when conducting qualitative research in carceral settings. We address how our research team navigated consent and presentations of self for maintaining access; how they managed empathy and the emotional toll of conducting research in adversarial settings; and how conflicting narratives raised questions about data validity and knowledge const…
Coerced work during parole: Prevalence, mechanisms, and characteristics
Coerced work on parole occurs when people are required to work under the threat of criminal legal repercussions. In the face of barriers to “good” work for people after prison, coercion helps to funnel parolees into positions at the bottom of the labor market. Parolee workers in these positions experience issues common to precarious, low‐wage work (low pay, hazardous working conditions, and labor law violations), as well as heightened vulnerabili…
Getting boxed in: How race and gang labeling shape solitary confinement use
Restrictive housing imposes isolation in austere conditions on people who commit serious rule violations or are too dangerous (or endangered) to house in the general prison population. We contribute to a growing body of scholarship analyzing restrictive housing placements, asking how gang membership, race/ethnicity, and misconduct interact to predict placement and lengths of stay. We integrate analysis of qualitative interviews with a random samp…
Homelessness Following Jail Exit Among Previously Housed Individuals
Incarceration is a recognized risk factor for homelessness. However, most research focuses on the relationship between homelessness and prison incarceration. Jail incarceration is more common compared to prison incarceration, but little data exists on its impact on housing. The objective of this study is to examine the occurrence of housing loss after jail incarceration among individuals without prior evidence of homelessness and the associated r…
Unexceptional Patterns of Solitary Confinement: Cycling and Re-entry Shocks Within the Prison
Combining analysis of 186 longitudinal interviews with robust administrative data, we document how people in prison in Washington state experience solitary confinement not once over one long period, but repeatedly over an average of 6.3 shorter ‘spells’ during their incarceration, followed by periods of adjustment as people re-enter the less restrictive general prison population. We identify three categories of shocks people experience across rep…
Methodological Lessons Learned From a Longitudinal Study of Overdose Vulnerability Among People Experiencing Homelessness Who Co-use Fentanyl and Stimulants in San Francisco, CA, USA
The U.S. overdose crisis is now driven by polysubstance use involving fentanyl and stimulants. We received funding through the National Institutes on Drug Abuse’s Helping to End Addiction Long-Term (HEAL) initiative to conduct longitudinal qualitative research on polysubstance use among people experiencing homelessness (PEH) in San Francisco, California. An Intersectional Risk Environment Framework was used to examine the interaction between soci…
Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage
Against optimization: Solitary confinement and the research-policy nexus
“Everybody out there in the real world is one paycheck away from being homeless”: Job loss and housing precarity among people experiencing homelessness
The United States has fewer labor protections and wage guarantees than most wealthy industrialized nations; thus, workers can fall into economic hardship by the loss of employment, reduction in work hours, or work-related accidents or injuries. Even when fully employed, low wage workers typically face substantial rent burdens, which place them at risk for being evicted from their homes and ultimately falling into homelessness. This paper examines…
Understanding the Impact of Structural Racism and Violence Across the Lifespan on Overdose Vulnerability Among Black San Franciscans Experiencing Homelessness
Overdose in California is highly racialized, with Black Californians experiencing excessive mortality. People experiencing homelessness (PEH) report high rates of fentanyl-stimulant co-use and drug-related harm. There is limited research examining structural racism and intersectional violence of policing, homelessness, and overdose throughout the lifespan of Black people. POLY HOME is a qualitative study among PEH who fentanyl and stimulants in S…
Criminology (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Prison (7 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (6 works) · Solitary confinement (5 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 works)