Publications

On Prisons

Triaged out of Care: How Carceral Logics Complicate a 'Course of Care' in Solitary Confinement

Melissa Barragan, Gabriela Gonzalez, Justin Donald Strong, Dallas Augustine, Kelsie Chesnut, Keramet Reiter, Natalie A. Pifer

Healthcare, vol. 10, 2022

Window Dressing: Possibilities and Limitations of Incremental Changes in Solitary Confinement

Dallas Augustine, Melissa Barragan, Kelsie Chesnut, Natalie A Pifer, Keramet Reiter, Justin D Strong

Health & Justice, vol. 9, BioMed Central, 2021, pp. 1--13

Opening the Black Box of Solitary Confinement Through Researcher--Practitioner Collaboration: A Longitudinal Analysis of Prisoner and Solitary Populations in Washington state, 2002--2017

David Lovell, R Tublitz, K Reiter, K Chesnut, N Pifer

Justice Quarterly, vol. 37(7), Routledge, 2020, pp. 1303--1321

Psychological distress in solitary confinement: symptoms, severity, and prevalence in the United States, 2017--2018

Keramet Reiter, Joseph Ventura, David Lovell, Dallas Augustine, Melissa Barragan, Thomas Blair, Kelsie Chesnut, Pasha Dashtgard, Gabriela Gonzalez, Natalie Pifer, others

American journal of public health, vol. 110, American Public Health Association, 2020, pp. S56--S62

The body in isolation: The physical health impacts of incarceration in solitary confinement

Justin D Strong, Keramet Reiter, Gabriela Gonzalez, Rebecca Tublitz, Dallas Augustine, Melissa Barragan, Kelsie Chesnut, Pasha Dashtgard, Natalie Pifer, Thomas R Blair

PloS one, vol. 15, Public Library of Science San Francisco, CA USA, 2020, pp. e0238510

Brown v. Plata

Kerarnet Rejter, Natalje Pifer

Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2015

On Policing

“The Right Kind of Crazy”: How Patrol Officers Police the Boundaries of Mental Illness through Hybridized Strategies

Natalie A. Pifer

Law & Social Inquiry, 2022

Policing the Mentally Ill in Los Angeles on the Frontlines of Transinstitutionalization

Natalie A. Pifer

The Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States, Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 432--448

On Extreme Punishments

The Scientific and the Social in Implementing Atkins v. Virginia

Natalie A Pifer

Law & Social Inquiry, vol. 41, Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp. 1036--1060

Re-entrenchment through reform: The promises and perils of categorical exemptions for extreme punishment policy

Natalie A Pifer

Ala. CR \& CLL Rev., vol. 7, HeinOnline, 2015, p. 171

Is Life the Same as Death: Implications of Graham v. Florida, Roper v. Simmons, and Atkins v. Virginia on Life without Parole Sentences for Juvenile and Mentally Retarded Offenders

Natalie Pifer

Loy. LAL Rev., vol. 43, HeinOnline, 2009, p. 1495

On Methods

Reflections on team research in carceral settings

Keramet Reiter, Dallas Augustine, Melissa Barragan, Kelsie Chesnut, Gabriela Gonzalez, Natalie Pifer

Prison Stories: Women Scholars’ Experiences Doing Research Behind Bars, Lexington Books, 2020, p. 13

On Criminal Law (Substantive and Procedural)

Prohibited possessors and the law: How inmates in Los Angeles jails understand firearm and ammunition regulations

Melissa Barragan, Kelsie Y Chesnut, Jason Gravel, Natalie A Pifer, Keramet Reiter, Nicole Sherman, George Tita

The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, vol. 3, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2017, pp. 141--163

Not an ‘iron pipeline’, but many capillaries: regulating passive transactions in Los Angeles' secondary, illegal gun market

Kelsie Y Chesnut, Melissa Barragan, Jason Gravel, Natalie A Pifer, Keramet Reiter, Nicole Sherman, George E Tita

Injury Prevention, vol. 23, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2017, pp. 226--231

Berghuis v. Smith: Continuing Ambiguity in Fair-Cross-Section Claims

Natalie A Pifer

Loy. LAL Rev., vol. 44, HeinOnline, 2010, p. 1035