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Matthew Clair Jan 11, 2023

Asad L. Asad’s (@asadasad) new book “Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life” is available for preorder! I was lucky to get a chance to read an earlier version of this rigorous and theoretically rich book, which shows how surveillance in schools, workplaces, and hospitals at once threatens immigrant families and offers them hope for social inclusion. A must read in 2023!

https://amzn.to/3QyIT7x

#immigration
#newsocbooks
#sociology
#lawprofs

Matthew Clair Nov 21, 2022

Just published a paper in LSR on #collateralconsequences, #juries, and the #carceralstate. Interviews with 103 court officials reveal that being perceived as an offender or victim of crime (or proximate to one) is a common basis for jury exclusion. We argue that such exclusion is a collateral consequence of mass criminalization, with racialized and gendered effects that maintain law's inequality.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/lasr.12629
#sociology #criminology #lawprofs

Matthew Clair Nov 10, 2022

I’ve appreciated learning about the racialized history and local politics of Chicago’s jails in Melanie Newport’s new book This is My Jail. Check it out!

#newbooks
#newlawbooks
#histodon

Matthew Clair Oct 30, 2022

For some reason, this site is giving me tumblr x Twitter x blogspot vibes. And so, it only seems right to post a photo of me and my dog. 😊

#dogsofmastodon #twittermigration

Website	https://www.matthewclair.org
Research	https://www.courtlisteningproject.org
Book	https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691194332/privilege-and-punishment