Justin Lucas Sola
Biographic Data
| ID | 4270905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin Lucas Sola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin Lucas |
| FAMILY NAME | Sola |
| SIGNATURE | SOLA J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0955-1031 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The disaster of their dreams: Sheepdogs and restive U.S. gun ownership
Some American gun owners have embraced the label “sheepdog,” casting armed citizens as community protectors who step in when the state fails. This identity exposes a central tension in U.S. gun culture: armed citizens present themselves as defenders of order yet challenge the state’s monopoly on legitimate violence. Previous work resolves this tension by dichotomizing gun owners into those who defer to state authority (neoliberals) and those who …
Neoliberalism in law and society
Neoliberalism, once an economic doctrine responding to the failures of liberalism, has become a widely used concept in sociolegal scholarship. Law and society scholars often invoke it to explain sociolegal and punitive phenomena such as mass incarceration, inequality, and state transformation. But the concept’s analytic power is undermined when scholars conflate neoliberalism as a sociohistorical process with neoliberalism as a universal cause. D…
First impressions matter: Mundane obstacles to a forensic device for probabilistic reporting in fingerprint analysis
This article investigates why statistical reasoning has had little impact on the practice of friction ridge (or ‘fingerprint’) examination, despite both interest and some modest scientific progress toward this goal. Previous research has attributed this lack of results to practitioner resistance and legal apathy. This article seeks to complement those explanations through interviews with experts with a variety of perspectives on contemporary fing…
Partisan Differences in Hiring and Social Discrimination against Nonbinary Americans
Discrimination based on gender identity is unjust and wreaks havoc on individuals’ lives. Nonbinary Americans report experiencing extensive and daily experiences with discriminatory events. Yet experimental evidence on how employers and members of the public evaluate and react to individuals (e.g., job applicants, social acquaintances) with different gender identities remains limited and is mixed. Using experimental data from two conjoint analyse…
Firearms, families, and financial distress: Economic instability and increased gun desire
The United States is a global leader in estimated rates of civilian gun ownership, and over the past few years—as the country grappled with a struggling economy exacerbated by a global pandemic—gun‐buying surged. We argue that the COVID‐19 pandemic's economic impact has implications for gun purchasing interest, and this intersects with gendered expectations about familial roles. Integrating sociological scholarship on gender and families with con…
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Public Assistance, Monetary Sanctions, and Financial Double-Dealing in America
Research on punishment and inequality finds that people with criminal records routinely avoid systems of surveillance. Yet scholarship on monetary sanctions shows that many people experiencing poverty with criminal legal system debt are also involved with the state in other domains of social life. How can these literatures be resolved? In this article, we posit that past research can be reconciled through a focus on financial double-dealing-dispa…
Barred: Labor Market Dynamics and Human Capital Development among People on Probation and Parole
Obtaining employment is a major barrier to social reintegration for people on probation or parole. Research on the reentry process identifies several mechanisms that accentuate difficulties in locating work, including human capital development, structural changes in the labor market, and onerous probation and parole conditions. In this article, we review theories that explain low labor market participation rates among people reentering society, a…
Transmitting Desire: An Experiment on a Novel Measure of Gun Desirability in a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic and protests have marked an unprecedented increase in U.S. gun sales. But America has long been an outlier; the stockpile of private guns climbed to almost 300 million in 2017. Scholars use multiple theories to explain why gun sales have tripled since the early 2000s, and why disruptions like the pandemic might cause gun sales. However, scholars have difficulty evaluating these theories with existing retrospective estimates …
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Public Assistance, Monetary Sanctions, and Financial Double-Dealing in America
Research on punishment and inequality finds that people with criminal records routinely avoid systems of surveillance. Yet scholarship on monetary sanctions shows that many people experiencing poverty with criminal legal system debt are also involved with the state in other domains of social life. How can these literatures be resolved? In this article, we posit that past research can be reconciled through a focus on financial double-dealing-dispa…
Transmitting Desire: An Experiment on a Novel Measure of Gun Desirability in a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic and protests have marked an unprecedented increase in U.S. gun sales. But America has long been an outlier; the stockpile of private guns climbed to almost 300 million in 2017. Scholars use multiple theories to explain why gun sales have tripled since the early 2000s, and why disruptions like the pandemic might cause gun sales. However, scholars have difficulty evaluating these theories with existing retrospective estimates …
Barred: Labor Market Dynamics and Human Capital Development among People on Probation and Parole
Obtaining employment is a major barrier to social reintegration for people on probation or parole. Research on the reentry process identifies several mechanisms that accentuate difficulties in locating work, including human capital development, structural changes in the labor market, and onerous probation and parole conditions. In this article, we review theories that explain low labor market participation rates among people reentering society, a…
Transmitting Desire: An Experiment on a Novel Measure of Gun Desirability in a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic and protests have marked an unprecedented increase in U.S. gun sales. But America has long been an outlier; the stockpile of private guns climbed to almost 300 million in 2017. Scholars use multiple theories to explain why gun sales have tripled since the early 2000s, and why disruptions like the pandemic might cause gun sales. However, scholars have difficulty evaluating these theories with existing retrospective estimates …
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Public Assistance, Monetary Sanctions, and Financial Double-Dealing in America
Research on punishment and inequality finds that people with criminal records routinely avoid systems of surveillance. Yet scholarship on monetary sanctions shows that many people experiencing poverty with criminal legal system debt are also involved with the state in other domains of social life. How can these literatures be resolved? In this article, we posit that past research can be reconciled through a focus on financial double-dealing-dispa…
Barred: Labor Market Dynamics and Human Capital Development among People on Probation and Parole
Obtaining employment is a major barrier to social reintegration for people on probation or parole. Research on the reentry process identifies several mechanisms that accentuate difficulties in locating work, including human capital development, structural changes in the labor market, and onerous probation and parole conditions. In this article, we review theories that explain low labor market participation rates among people reentering society, a…
Partisan Differences in Hiring and Social Discrimination against Nonbinary Americans
Discrimination based on gender identity is unjust and wreaks havoc on individuals’ lives. Nonbinary Americans report experiencing extensive and daily experiences with discriminatory events. Yet experimental evidence on how employers and members of the public evaluate and react to individuals (e.g., job applicants, social acquaintances) with different gender identities remains limited and is mixed. Using experimental data from two conjoint analyse…
Firearms, families, and financial distress: Economic instability and increased gun desire
The United States is a global leader in estimated rates of civilian gun ownership, and over the past few years—as the country grappled with a struggling economy exacerbated by a global pandemic—gun‐buying surged. We argue that the COVID‐19 pandemic's economic impact has implications for gun purchasing interest, and this intersects with gendered expectations about familial roles. Integrating sociological scholarship on gender and families with con…
First impressions matter: Mundane obstacles to a forensic device for probabilistic reporting in fingerprint analysis
This article investigates why statistical reasoning has had little impact on the practice of friction ridge (or ‘fingerprint’) examination, despite both interest and some modest scientific progress toward this goal. Previous research has attributed this lack of results to practitioner resistance and legal apathy. This article seeks to complement those explanations through interviews with experts with a variety of perspectives on contemporary fing…
The disaster of their dreams: Sheepdogs and restive U.S. gun ownership
Some American gun owners have embraced the label “sheepdog,” casting armed citizens as community protectors who step in when the state fails. This identity exposes a central tension in U.S. gun culture: armed citizens present themselves as defenders of order yet challenge the state’s monopoly on legitimate violence. Previous work resolves this tension by dichotomizing gun owners into those who defer to state authority (neoliberals) and those who …
Neoliberalism in law and society
Neoliberalism, once an economic doctrine responding to the failures of liberalism, has become a widely used concept in sociolegal scholarship. Law and society scholars often invoke it to explain sociolegal and punitive phenomena such as mass incarceration, inequality, and state transformation. But the concept’s analytic power is undermined when scholars conflate neoliberalism as a sociohistorical process with neoliberalism as a universal cause. D…
Psychology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Gun Ownership and Violence Research (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works)