Erin Eife
@erineife.bsky.social
assistant professor in criminology at george mason | south philly | she/her
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Erin Eife
@erineife.bsky.social
· Nov 14
I created a starter pack for Sociologists/Social Scientists of Punishment. Please share and let me know if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/CpCJb3J
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I really like how Zohran Mamdani has run a campaign that is so focused on making New York City a safe (including from the fascism of our current federal government) and affordable place for all its residents, and I am really appalled by how racist so much of the opposition to his candidacy has been.
October 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I really like how Zohran Mamdani has run a campaign that is so focused on making New York City a safe (including from the fascism of our current federal government) and affordable place for all its residents, and I am really appalled by how racist so much of the opposition to his candidacy has been.
My 🚨new pub🚨 in SS&M with Brian Tuohy argues that pretrial surveillance is a structural determinant of health, as it leads to stress, restricted medical access, and increased use of ER. Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The carceral state beyond bars: Pretrial surveillance as a structural determinant of health
The expanding reach of the carceral state has led to a rise in surveillance-based reforms marketed as humane alternatives to incarceration. Electronic…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
My 🚨new pub🚨 in SS&M with Brian Tuohy argues that pretrial surveillance is a structural determinant of health, as it leads to stress, restricted medical access, and increased use of ER. Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thinking about a doctoral degree? Join us this fall to hear why we are the #1 criminology program in VA and a Top 10 program in the nation!
Learn more about George Mason's Top 10 doctoral program in criminology and submit your application by December 1.
Learn more about George Mason's Top 10 doctoral program in criminology and submit your application by December 1.
October 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Thinking about a doctoral degree? Join us this fall to hear why we are the #1 criminology program in VA and a Top 10 program in the nation!
Learn more about George Mason's Top 10 doctoral program in criminology and submit your application by December 1.
Learn more about George Mason's Top 10 doctoral program in criminology and submit your application by December 1.
🚨new article🚨 We show how, even though rates of incarceration may decrease, bond reform can lead to an increase in release conditions (like EM), especially for Black people. We should consider these consequences when designing/implementing reform. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The hidden harms of bond reform: Examining the impact of bond reform on restrictive conditions of release
In recent years, jurisdictions across the US have implemented different versions of bond reform with the intent to eliminate certain inequalities asso…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
🚨new article🚨 We show how, even though rates of incarceration may decrease, bond reform can lead to an increase in release conditions (like EM), especially for Black people. We should consider these consequences when designing/implementing reform. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
For ASC members, please consider signing onto our petition for a new Division of Courts and Pretrial Justice! This would create an intellectual home and supportive community for those of us that study courts and pretrial during the conference and throughout the year!
July 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
For ASC members, please consider signing onto our petition for a new Division of Courts and Pretrial Justice! This would create an intellectual home and supportive community for those of us that study courts and pretrial during the conference and throughout the year!
Happening today at 1p ET! Feel free to dm or email me (eeife@gmu.edu) for registration info.
Please just us on 5/13 @ 1pm ET for a panel on "How to Conference" sponsored by ASA's Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance! We have an amazing group of interdisciplinary scholars. Feel free to dm me for more info!
May 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Happening today at 1p ET! Feel free to dm or email me (eeife@gmu.edu) for registration info.
Please just us on 5/13 @ 1pm ET for a panel on "How to Conference" sponsored by ASA's Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance! We have an amazing group of interdisciplinary scholars. Feel free to dm me for more info!
May 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Please just us on 5/13 @ 1pm ET for a panel on "How to Conference" sponsored by ASA's Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance! We have an amazing group of interdisciplinary scholars. Feel free to dm me for more info!
🚨New article out in Punishment & Society🚨 We show how legally innocent people awaiting adjudication are translated into carceral citizens even before conviction. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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April 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🚨New article out in Punishment & Society🚨 We show how legally innocent people awaiting adjudication are translated into carceral citizens even before conviction. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Check out @chiarapackard.bsky.social's thread for info on how to sign up for our discussion tomorrow on this amazing book by @kelleyfong.bsky.social!
This book is powerful!
It reveals the experiences of mothers who fear CPS will take their children away, while also exploring why people report to CPS and the process of investigation.
Importantly, it highlights the problems with using CPS as a tool to address poverty. @kelleyfong.bsky.social
It reveals the experiences of mothers who fear CPS will take their children away, while also exploring why people report to CPS and the process of investigation.
Importantly, it highlights the problems with using CPS as a tool to address poverty. @kelleyfong.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Check out @chiarapackard.bsky.social's thread for info on how to sign up for our discussion tomorrow on this amazing book by @kelleyfong.bsky.social!
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Join the Punishment & Society Reading Group this Friday, April 18th at 3 pm ET to discuss Investigating Families @kelleyfong.bsky.social ✨ We’re lucky that Dr. Fong will be joining the conversation!
DM me to subscribe to our mailing list and receive the Zoom link to join 📥 @erineife.bsky.social
DM me to subscribe to our mailing list and receive the Zoom link to join 📥 @erineife.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Join the Punishment & Society Reading Group this Friday, April 18th at 3 pm ET to discuss Investigating Families @kelleyfong.bsky.social ✨ We’re lucky that Dr. Fong will be joining the conversation!
DM me to subscribe to our mailing list and receive the Zoom link to join 📥 @erineife.bsky.social
DM me to subscribe to our mailing list and receive the Zoom link to join 📥 @erineife.bsky.social
Excited for our next reading group *THIS FRIDAY*, April 18th!
Join the Punishment & Society Reading Group this Friday, April 18th at 3 pm ET to discuss Investigating Families @kelleyfong.bsky.social ✨ We’re lucky that Dr. Fong will be joining the conversation!
DM me to subscribe to our mailing list and receive the Zoom link to join 📥 @erineife.bsky.social
DM me to subscribe to our mailing list and receive the Zoom link to join 📥 @erineife.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Excited for our next reading group *THIS FRIDAY*, April 18th!
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Some new art by my friend @monicatrinidad.bsky.social - I think that she is quoting @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Some new art by my friend @monicatrinidad.bsky.social - I think that she is quoting @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
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If you're an academic job market candidate studying causal questions related to crime/CJ policy, and you're still looking for a job for next year, could you email me? I'm trying to keep track/would love to help if I can.
March 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
If you're an academic job market candidate studying causal questions related to crime/CJ policy, and you're still looking for a job for next year, could you email me? I'm trying to keep track/would love to help if I can.
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🚨New Predoc Posting Alert!🚨
@koenig-felix.bsky.social and I are looking to hire a full-time predoctoral fellow to work with us on projects about the economics of labor markets and the future work at @carnegiemellon.bsky.social
Please share and/or apply!
apply.interfolio.com/164383
#econ_ra
@koenig-felix.bsky.social and I are looking to hire a full-time predoctoral fellow to work with us on projects about the economics of labor markets and the future work at @carnegiemellon.bsky.social
Please share and/or apply!
apply.interfolio.com/164383
#econ_ra
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March 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
🚨New Predoc Posting Alert!🚨
@koenig-felix.bsky.social and I are looking to hire a full-time predoctoral fellow to work with us on projects about the economics of labor markets and the future work at @carnegiemellon.bsky.social
Please share and/or apply!
apply.interfolio.com/164383
#econ_ra
@koenig-felix.bsky.social and I are looking to hire a full-time predoctoral fellow to work with us on projects about the economics of labor markets and the future work at @carnegiemellon.bsky.social
Please share and/or apply!
apply.interfolio.com/164383
#econ_ra
We're one week away from the first Punishment & Society Reading Group for this semester! On Friday 3/7 @ 3:00-4:30pm ET, we will be discussing Foucault's Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975). Please dm me if you'd like to be added to the listserv for Zoom info!
February 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
We're one week away from the first Punishment & Society Reading Group for this semester! On Friday 3/7 @ 3:00-4:30pm ET, we will be discussing Foucault's Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975). Please dm me if you'd like to be added to the listserv for Zoom info!
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I am so pleased to announce a Palestinian Studies cluster hire at @huntercollege.bsky.social - we are hiring one person in the arts and another in the social sciences. This is an incredible source of pride for me as a faculty member & one of the many reasons that I feel so lucky to work here 1/
February 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I am so pleased to announce a Palestinian Studies cluster hire at @huntercollege.bsky.social - we are hiring one person in the arts and another in the social sciences. This is an incredible source of pride for me as a faculty member & one of the many reasons that I feel so lucky to work here 1/
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just to make sure: are there any carceral historians (or historians doing police, crime, incarceration-related topics) still looking to join a panel submission for Urban History Association?
February 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
just to make sure: are there any carceral historians (or historians doing police, crime, incarceration-related topics) still looking to join a panel submission for Urban History Association?
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Submissions open today for the Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize. This prize uplifts the work of writers who are currently & formerly incarcerated.
truthout.org/articles/kee...
Spread the word!
The prize honors my sister, who died five years ago after many years in and out of incarceration. 💔
truthout.org/articles/kee...
Spread the word!
The prize honors my sister, who died five years ago after many years in and out of incarceration. 💔
Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize
The annual prize is awarded to two writers who are currently or formerly incarcerated.
truthout.org
February 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Submissions open today for the Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize. This prize uplifts the work of writers who are currently & formerly incarcerated.
truthout.org/articles/kee...
Spread the word!
The prize honors my sister, who died five years ago after many years in and out of incarceration. 💔
truthout.org/articles/kee...
Spread the word!
The prize honors my sister, who died five years ago after many years in and out of incarceration. 💔
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love to see an article that captures that “the sheriff’s office is lying to me” feeling
it took a year and a half but my first reader cover story is finally out!
it's a deep dive into how the cook county sheriff's office worked with the university of chicago to build a web of surveillance for people one electronic monitors.
but there's so much more. strap in. 🧵
it's a deep dive into how the cook county sheriff's office worked with the university of chicago to build a web of surveillance for people one electronic monitors.
but there's so much more. strap in. 🧵
Cook County’s web of surveillance for electronic monitoring
Sheriff Tom Dart worked with the University of Chicago’s Steven Levitt to create a program that could “match” people on EM to reported crimes.
chicagoreader.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
love to see an article that captures that “the sheriff’s office is lying to me” feeling
I'm very proud of an article I recently had published in Social Problems (one of my faves!!) that explores how people charged with felonies are conditioned into the treatment they should expect upon adjudication. academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...
Liminal Punishment and the Specter of Jail
ABSTRACT. Poverty governance literature details how systems of control loom over marginalized populations as a form of social management. In this paper, I
academic.oup.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I'm very proud of an article I recently had published in Social Problems (one of my faves!!) that explores how people charged with felonies are conditioned into the treatment they should expect upon adjudication. academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...
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Everyone concerned about data loss right now should learn about the End of Term Web Archive, which I believe has been working on preserving federal websites for the past 8 months. The dataset you fear has been lost may well be here
Just an incredible project. Thank you to everyone involved
Just an incredible project. Thank you to everyone involved
How to Access the EOT Web Archives
Visit web.archive.org
Scroll to 🔎Collection Search section
Select "End Of Term (US Gov 2024)" from the menu
Type in your query term and click search
Or download bulk WARC files from eotarchive.org/data/
#EOT2024 #EOTArchive
Visit web.archive.org
Scroll to 🔎Collection Search section
Select "End Of Term (US Gov 2024)" from the menu
Type in your query term and click search
Or download bulk WARC files from eotarchive.org/data/
#EOT2024 #EOTArchive
February 1, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Everyone concerned about data loss right now should learn about the End of Term Web Archive, which I believe has been working on preserving federal websites for the past 8 months. The dataset you fear has been lost may well be here
Just an incredible project. Thank you to everyone involved
Just an incredible project. Thank you to everyone involved
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With talk of ICE doing"collateral arrests," I've been thinking of how this is also true for broader criminal justice. When a person is in jail/prison, on electronic monitoring/parole, family/friends/neighbors can also end up in more contact with police, increasing chances of surveillance & arrest.
January 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
With talk of ICE doing"collateral arrests," I've been thinking of how this is also true for broader criminal justice. When a person is in jail/prison, on electronic monitoring/parole, family/friends/neighbors can also end up in more contact with police, increasing chances of surveillance & arrest.
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Good morning go birds say it back
January 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Good morning go birds say it back
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I've been thinking a lot about uncertainty. Some studies show people experience more stress when there is an uncertain POSSIBILITY of pain, than when there is CERTAIN predictable pain.
This week there were false alarms about ICE agents & anxiety was high. Maybe this is obvious, but.. (1/)
This week there were false alarms about ICE agents & anxiety was high. Maybe this is obvious, but.. (1/)
January 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I've been thinking a lot about uncertainty. Some studies show people experience more stress when there is an uncertain POSSIBILITY of pain, than when there is CERTAIN predictable pain.
This week there were false alarms about ICE agents & anxiety was high. Maybe this is obvious, but.. (1/)
This week there were false alarms about ICE agents & anxiety was high. Maybe this is obvious, but.. (1/)
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The #DATALab in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office is requesting proposals for research that meets the moment to support in 2025.
Please read more via link below and consider applying or sharing in your networks:
mailchi.mp/phila/resear...
Defer no time... Email me with any Qs.
Please read more via link below and consider applying or sharing in your networks:
mailchi.mp/phila/resear...
Defer no time... Email me with any Qs.
DATA Lab: Request for Research Proposals that Meet the Moment
mailchi.mp
January 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The #DATALab in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office is requesting proposals for research that meets the moment to support in 2025.
Please read more via link below and consider applying or sharing in your networks:
mailchi.mp/phila/resear...
Defer no time... Email me with any Qs.
Please read more via link below and consider applying or sharing in your networks:
mailchi.mp/phila/resear...
Defer no time... Email me with any Qs.