Angela LaScala‐Gruenewald

Biographic Data

ID6753452
NAMEAngela LaScala‐Gruenewald
GIVEN NAMESAngela
FAMILY NAMELaScala‐Gruenewald
SIGNATUREGRUENEWALD A L
AFFILIATIONSThe Graduate Center, CUNY
ORCID0000-0001-9364-8276
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Neck‐restraint bans, law enforcement officer unions, and police killings

    Open AccessBrenden Beck, Joseph Antonelli et al.ARTICLECriminology & Public Policy2024References: 4

    Research Summary Following high‐profile police killings, many U.S. cities banned officers from using chokeholds and other neck restraints. The evidence for such bans, however, is limited. To test whether use‐of‐force policies prohibiting neck restraints are related to fewer police killings, we use three modeling approaches to analyze 2183 U.S. cities between 2009 and 2021. Police killings were lower in places that adopted neck‐restraint bans and …

  • Legal financial obligations in the United States

    Open AccessAngela LaScala‐Gruenewald, Leslie PaikARTICLESociology Compass2023

    In the United States, legal financial obligations (LFOs) include many types of monetary sanctions. For example, fines are tied to specific offenses and imposed at conviction and fees charge people for the “use” of courts, prisons, and other public services. With the rise of mass incarceration, millions of people across the U.S. owe billions of dollars in LFOs. Yet despite the widespread use of monetary sanctions, it was not until the last decade …