Ethan M Higgins
Biographic Data
| ID | 4076330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ethan M Higgins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ethan M |
| FAMILY NAME | Higgins |
| SIGNATURE | HIGGINS E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina Wilmington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9439-3444 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Policing and the Safety Logic in the School Context: Perceptions of Danger and Definitions of Law Enforcement
How police construct definitions of law enforcement has been a longstanding inquiry in criminology. This research has demonstrated that police subculture values, such as how police are socialized to hyperfocus on danger and safety, can have a strong influence on officer decisions. These cultural logics can intersect with conditions of the environment to shape definitions of law enforcement. Particularly, school police offer an opportunity to eluc…
Hazardous on My Soul’: (Dis)compassion and Emotive Dissonance in Prison Work
A history of social research has aimed to illuminate consequences for the psyche of workers that carry out occupations in dehumanizing contexts. In criminology, scholarship has detailed concern over how carceral contexts produce detriment via emotional labour for workers. Although prison work has been shown to necessitate emotional suppression, studies also find workers can bear intimacy for the incarcerated. We contribute to the prison scholarsh…
They Might Not Kill You Today but They’re Going to Get You in the End’: The Correctional Subculture and the Schematization of Danger
Criminology has long investigated criminal justice cultures and their preoccupation with dangerousness. Over a half century ago, correctional scholars called for a richer understanding of how a ‘social reality’ of danger might shape the mental state of staff. More recently, correctional scholarship has demonstrated that correctional culture and perceptions of danger likely play a fundamental role in findings that staff experience conflict across …
We keep the nightmares in their cages”: Correctional culture, identity, and the warped badge of honor
Correctional scholarship has demonstrated concern over the dehumanizing implications of the carceral state for incarcerated people. This concern has been paralleled by an interest in understanding the work of prison staff and how correctional subculture may play an active role in prison dehumanization. By drawing from focus groups from all prisons in one state, we investigate how correctional staff construct and manage their identity through “us–…
School Safety or School Criminalization? The Typical day of A School Resource Officer in the United States
School resource officers (SROs) have become increasingly common in schools in the United States and this growth of police in schools has taken place as part of a trend of school criminalization. In a school criminalization framework, scholars have focused on physical security measures and punitive outcomes for students, however, the subtler dimensions have been less explored. We draw on 26 interviews where SROs were asked to detail their typical …
Protecting the Flock or Policing the Sheep? Differences in School Resource Officers' Perceptions of Threats by School Racial Composition
Law enforcement officers (often called school resource officers or SROs) are an increasingly common feature in schools across the United States. Although SROs' roles vary across school contexts, there has been little examination of why. One possible explanation is that SROs perceive threats differently in different school contexts and that the racial composition of schools may motivate these differences. To investigate this possibility, this stud…
Exclusionary School Discipline and Delinquent Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis
Pursuing a Correctional Career: The Motivations and Reasons for Staying
Researchers have argued that the field of corrections is plagued by problems such as high turnover and increasing difficulties with hiring. There are a number of reasons to avoid pursuing correctional work, including unfavorable working conditions, high levels of organizational and occupational stress, and negative cultural stigma. However, despite these reasons to avoid pursing a correctional career, there are still well over four-hundred thousa…
Who belongs in school? Examining the link between Black and White racial disparities in sense of school belonging and suspension
Relative to White students, Black students experience higher rates of exclusionary discipline and less welcoming school environments. However, little empirical research has examined the extent to which these two parallel racial disparities are linked. This study examines the relationship between student race and suspension and whether this relationship depends on school-level racial disparities in students' sense of school belonging. Using data f…
The State of Authorship in Criminology: Perceptions of Right and Order among Elite Criminologists
Although journal outlets are beginning to put forth explicit criteria that define authorship, studies have also found that there are nonetheless components of authorship philosophies that remain interactional and culturally defined among members of particular scientific communities. In line with other scientific fields, authorship practices and philosophies are central to publishing in criminology. By drawing from a set of 40 interviews with elit…
The Knowing of Monstrosities: Necropower, Spectacular Punishment and Denial
The State of Peer Review in Criminology: Literary Theory, Perceptions, and the Catch-22 Metaphor of Peer Review
Considerable theoretical and empirical attention has been devoted to the practice of peer review across various disciplines in the previous couple decades. Recently, Raymond Paternoster and Robert Brame indicated that it is necessary for criminology to follow suit and begin to provide a critical inquiry of the blind review model. Literary theory and writing studies have examined literate practices for decades and empirical research has identified…
Edgeways as a theoretical extension: Connecting crime pattern theory and New Urbanism
The Sleeping Army: Necropolitics and the Collateral Consequences of Being a Sex Offender
The current study examines responses from 188 registered sex offenders to assess the impact of collateral consequences and situate such experiences within a framework of necropolitics. Two research questions are addressed: How can the experience of collateral consequences be explained through necropolitics; and, do sex offenders use necropolitics in resistive efforts? Results demonstrate that exclusion from social and political institutions resul…
We keep the nightmares in their cages”: Correctional culture, identity, and the warped badge of honor
Correctional scholarship has demonstrated concern over the dehumanizing implications of the carceral state for incarcerated people. This concern has been paralleled by an interest in understanding the work of prison staff and how correctional subculture may play an active role in prison dehumanization. By drawing from focus groups from all prisons in one state, we investigate how correctional staff construct and manage their identity through “us–…
Protecting the Flock or Policing the Sheep? Differences in School Resource Officers' Perceptions of Threats by School Racial Composition
Law enforcement officers (often called school resource officers or SROs) are an increasingly common feature in schools across the United States. Although SROs' roles vary across school contexts, there has been little examination of why. One possible explanation is that SROs perceive threats differently in different school contexts and that the racial composition of schools may motivate these differences. To investigate this possibility, this stud…
Exclusionary School Discipline and Delinquent Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis
Who belongs in school? Examining the link between Black and White racial disparities in sense of school belonging and suspension
Relative to White students, Black students experience higher rates of exclusionary discipline and less welcoming school environments. However, little empirical research has examined the extent to which these two parallel racial disparities are linked. This study examines the relationship between student race and suspension and whether this relationship depends on school-level racial disparities in students' sense of school belonging. Using data f…
The Knowing of Monstrosities: Necropower, Spectacular Punishment and Denial
They Might Not Kill You Today but They’re Going to Get You in the End’: The Correctional Subculture and the Schematization of Danger
Criminology has long investigated criminal justice cultures and their preoccupation with dangerousness. Over a half century ago, correctional scholars called for a richer understanding of how a ‘social reality’ of danger might shape the mental state of staff. More recently, correctional scholarship has demonstrated that correctional culture and perceptions of danger likely play a fundamental role in findings that staff experience conflict across …
School Safety or School Criminalization? The Typical day of A School Resource Officer in the United States
School resource officers (SROs) have become increasingly common in schools in the United States and this growth of police in schools has taken place as part of a trend of school criminalization. In a school criminalization framework, scholars have focused on physical security measures and punitive outcomes for students, however, the subtler dimensions have been less explored. We draw on 26 interviews where SROs were asked to detail their typical …
The Sleeping Army: Necropolitics and the Collateral Consequences of Being a Sex Offender
The current study examines responses from 188 registered sex offenders to assess the impact of collateral consequences and situate such experiences within a framework of necropolitics. Two research questions are addressed: How can the experience of collateral consequences be explained through necropolitics; and, do sex offenders use necropolitics in resistive efforts? Results demonstrate that exclusion from social and political institutions resul…
Pursuing a Correctional Career: The Motivations and Reasons for Staying
Researchers have argued that the field of corrections is plagued by problems such as high turnover and increasing difficulties with hiring. There are a number of reasons to avoid pursuing correctional work, including unfavorable working conditions, high levels of organizational and occupational stress, and negative cultural stigma. However, despite these reasons to avoid pursing a correctional career, there are still well over four-hundred thousa…
The State of Peer Review in Criminology: Literary Theory, Perceptions, and the Catch-22 Metaphor of Peer Review
Considerable theoretical and empirical attention has been devoted to the practice of peer review across various disciplines in the previous couple decades. Recently, Raymond Paternoster and Robert Brame indicated that it is necessary for criminology to follow suit and begin to provide a critical inquiry of the blind review model. Literary theory and writing studies have examined literate practices for decades and empirical research has identified…
Edgeways as a theoretical extension: Connecting crime pattern theory and New Urbanism
The Sleeping Army: Necropolitics and the Collateral Consequences of Being a Sex Offender
The current study examines responses from 188 registered sex offenders to assess the impact of collateral consequences and situate such experiences within a framework of necropolitics. Two research questions are addressed: How can the experience of collateral consequences be explained through necropolitics; and, do sex offenders use necropolitics in resistive efforts? Results demonstrate that exclusion from social and political institutions resul…
The Knowing of Monstrosities: Necropower, Spectacular Punishment and Denial
The State of Authorship in Criminology: Perceptions of Right and Order among Elite Criminologists
Although journal outlets are beginning to put forth explicit criteria that define authorship, studies have also found that there are nonetheless components of authorship philosophies that remain interactional and culturally defined among members of particular scientific communities. In line with other scientific fields, authorship practices and philosophies are central to publishing in criminology. By drawing from a set of 40 interviews with elit…
Pursuing a Correctional Career: The Motivations and Reasons for Staying
Researchers have argued that the field of corrections is plagued by problems such as high turnover and increasing difficulties with hiring. There are a number of reasons to avoid pursuing correctional work, including unfavorable working conditions, high levels of organizational and occupational stress, and negative cultural stigma. However, despite these reasons to avoid pursing a correctional career, there are still well over four-hundred thousa…
Who belongs in school? Examining the link between Black and White racial disparities in sense of school belonging and suspension
Relative to White students, Black students experience higher rates of exclusionary discipline and less welcoming school environments. However, little empirical research has examined the extent to which these two parallel racial disparities are linked. This study examines the relationship between student race and suspension and whether this relationship depends on school-level racial disparities in students' sense of school belonging. Using data f…
Exclusionary School Discipline and Delinquent Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis
We keep the nightmares in their cages”: Correctional culture, identity, and the warped badge of honor
Correctional scholarship has demonstrated concern over the dehumanizing implications of the carceral state for incarcerated people. This concern has been paralleled by an interest in understanding the work of prison staff and how correctional subculture may play an active role in prison dehumanization. By drawing from focus groups from all prisons in one state, we investigate how correctional staff construct and manage their identity through “us–…
School Safety or School Criminalization? The Typical day of A School Resource Officer in the United States
School resource officers (SROs) have become increasingly common in schools in the United States and this growth of police in schools has taken place as part of a trend of school criminalization. In a school criminalization framework, scholars have focused on physical security measures and punitive outcomes for students, however, the subtler dimensions have been less explored. We draw on 26 interviews where SROs were asked to detail their typical …
Protecting the Flock or Policing the Sheep? Differences in School Resource Officers' Perceptions of Threats by School Racial Composition
Law enforcement officers (often called school resource officers or SROs) are an increasingly common feature in schools across the United States. Although SROs' roles vary across school contexts, there has been little examination of why. One possible explanation is that SROs perceive threats differently in different school contexts and that the racial composition of schools may motivate these differences. To investigate this possibility, this stud…
They Might Not Kill You Today but They’re Going to Get You in the End’: The Correctional Subculture and the Schematization of Danger
Criminology has long investigated criminal justice cultures and their preoccupation with dangerousness. Over a half century ago, correctional scholars called for a richer understanding of how a ‘social reality’ of danger might shape the mental state of staff. More recently, correctional scholarship has demonstrated that correctional culture and perceptions of danger likely play a fundamental role in findings that staff experience conflict across …
Hazardous on My Soul’: (Dis)compassion and Emotive Dissonance in Prison Work
A history of social research has aimed to illuminate consequences for the psyche of workers that carry out occupations in dehumanizing contexts. In criminology, scholarship has detailed concern over how carceral contexts produce detriment via emotional labour for workers. Although prison work has been shown to necessitate emotional suppression, studies also find workers can bear intimacy for the incarcerated. We contribute to the prison scholarsh…
Policing and the Safety Logic in the School Context: Perceptions of Danger and Definitions of Law Enforcement
How police construct definitions of law enforcement has been a longstanding inquiry in criminology. This research has demonstrated that police subculture values, such as how police are socialized to hyperfocus on danger and safety, can have a strong influence on officer decisions. These cultural logics can intersect with conditions of the environment to shape definitions of law enforcement. Particularly, school police offer an opportunity to eluc…
Criminology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Education Discipline and Inequality (4 works)