It’s Episode 106! This episode features Professor Laura DeMarco who speaks with us about about her work on cumulative disadvantage and contact with the criminal justice system.
Laura DeMarco is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. Her research asks questions about how the criminal justice system reflects, reproduces, and creates various inequalities, with attention to how the legal and economic context shape the stigma of a criminal record. Laura received her PhD from the Ohio State University in 2020. Before that she obtained a Master’s Degree in Sociology from the University at Albany – State University of New York, and a Bachelor’s Degree in History and Sociology from SUNY Geneseo.
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North Carolina State University Website // lmdemarc AT ncsu.edu // Twitter
This is the paper authored by Laura that was
discussed in this episode of The Crim Academy:
DeMarco, L. M. (2024). No Room to Fall: Criminal Justice Contact and Neighborhood Disadvantage. Social Problems. [article link]