YESTERDAY’S MONSTERS: REVISION REHABILITATION IN THE MANSON FAMILY PAROLE HEARINGS (UC Press 2020).
THE LEGAL PROCESS AND THE PROMISE OF JUSTICE (Cambridge University Press; 2019) (coedited with Jonathan Simon and Rosann Greenspan).
CHEAP ON CRIME: RECESSION-ERA POLITICS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN PUNISHMENT (Univ. of Cal. Press; 2015).
Journal Articles
Parallel Lines: Thai Work Migrants in Israel and the Native/Convert Buddhism Dichotomy, __ Pacific World __ (forthcoming 2025).
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Euthanize the Death Penalty Already! Scenes from Capital Punishment’s Chronic Deathbed, 27 Green Bag 2d (forthcoming 2024).
Hadar Aviram & Aparna Komarla, Secretive Sheriffs: Opacity and Variation in California’s Jail Responses to COVID-19, Nev. L.J. (forthcoming 2024).
The House Always Wins: Doctrine and Animus in California’s COVID-19 Prison Litigation, 72 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 565 (2022).
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The Center Cannot Hold: Zoom as a Potemkin Village, 16 Fla. Int’l Univ. L. Rev. 75 (2022).
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Bottleneck: The Place of County Jails in California’s COVID-19 Correctional Crisis, 2 Hastings J. Crime & Punishment 76 (2021).
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A Table Before Me in the Presence of My Enemies: Susan Atkins and the Embodiment of Aging and Frailty on Parole, 22 Int’l. Crim. L.R. 279 (2021).
Moral Character: Making Sense of the Experiences of Bar Applicants with Criminal Records, 43 Manitoba L. J. 1 (2020).
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Felon Disenfranchisement, 13 Ann. Rev. L. Soc. Sci. 295 (2017) (with Allyson Bragg and Chelsea Lewis).
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The Correctional Hunger Games Understanding Realignment in the Context of the Great Recession, 664 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 260 (2016).
Troubled Waters: Diana Nyad and the Birth of the Global Rules of Marathon Swimming, 4 Miss. Sports L. Rev. 30 (2015).
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Check, Pleas: Toward a Jurisprudence of Defense Ethics in Plea Bargaining, 41 Hastings Const. L.Q. 775 (2014) (with Deanna Dyer & S. C. Thomas).
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Death Row Economics: The Rise of Fiscally Prudent Anti–Death–Penalty Activism, 28 Crim. Just. 1 (2013) (with Ryan Newby).
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Legally Blind: Hyperadversarialism.Brady Violations.and the Prosecutorial Organizational Culture, 87 St. John’s L. Rev. 1 (2012).
Perceiving and Reporting Domestic Violence Incidents in Unconventional Settings: A Vignette Survey Study, 23 Hastings Women L. J. 159 (2012) (with Annick Persinger).
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Packer in Context: Formalism and Fairness in the Due Process Model, 36 Law & Soc. Inquiry 237 (2011).
Dainty Hands: Perceptions of Women and Crime in Sherlock Holmes Stories, 22 Hastings Women’s L.J. 233 (2011).
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Dangerousness.Risk.and Release, 7 Hastings Race & Poverty L.J. 175 (2010) (with Valerie Kraml and Nicole Schmidt).
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Defining the Problem, 7 Hastings Race & Poverty L.J. 161 (2010).
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Social Historical Studies of Women.Crime.and Courts, 6 Ann. Rev. L. Soc. Sci. 151 (2010) (with Malcolm M. Feeley).
Humonetarianism: The New Correctional Discourse of Scarcity, 7 Hastings Race & Poverty L.J. 1 (2010).
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Moving Targets: Placing the Good Faith Doctrine in the Context of Fragmented Policing, 37 Fordham Urb. L.J. 709 (2010) (with Jeremy Seymour & Richard Leo).
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Inequitable Enforcement: Introducing the Concept of Equity into Constitutional Review of Law Enforcement, 61 Hastings L.J. 413 (2009) (with Daniel L. Portman).
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‘Almost Duress’: Using Criminal Defenses at the Sentencing Stage, 2009 Hapraklit 601 (2009).
Discourse of Disobedience: Law.Political Philosophy.and Trials of Conscientious Objectors, 9 J.L. Soc’y 1 (2008).
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Make Love, Not Law: Perceptions of the Marriage Equality Struggle Among Polyamorous Activists, 7 J. Bisexuality 261 (2008).
How Law Thinks of Disobedience: Perceiving and Addressing Desertion and Conscientious Objection in Israeli Military Courts, 30 Law & Pol’y 277 (2008).
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'And Justice for All?' Regarding the Danger of Generalizing from Exceptional Cases, Following the Rami Dotan Petition, 14 Army & L. 343 (2002).
Unauthorized Absences: Imaginary Solutions to a Real Problem, 15 Army & L. 83 (2001).
Chapters in Books
Prison Litigation: Doctrine and Animus in California’s COVID-19 Prison Litigation, in The Judges’ Book: Scholarship for the Bench, Vol. 7, 71 (UC Law 2023).
Standing Trial for Lily: How Open Rescue Activists Mobilize Their Criminal Prosecutions for Animal Liberation, in Green Criminology and the Law 85 (James Gacek & Richard Jochelson, eds. 2022) .
Introduction: Past as Prologue and Adversarial Bias and the Criminal Process: Infusing the Organizational Perspective on Criminal Courts with Insights from Behavioral Science, in The Legal Process and the Promise of Justice: Studies Inspired by the Work of Malcolm Feeley 1 (Rosann Greenspan; Hadar Aviram & Jonathan Simon eds., Cambridge Univ. Press 2019).
Taking the Constitution Seriously?, in The New Criminal Justice Thinking 155 (Sharon Dolovich & Alexandra Natapoff eds., NYU Press 2017).
Afterward, in Extreme Punishment: Comparative Studies in Detention, Incarceration and Solitary Confinement 242 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) (Keramet Reiter & Alexa Koenig, eds.).
Geeks, Goddesses, and Green Eggs: Political Mobilization and the Cultural Locus of the Polyamorous Community in the San Francisco Bay Area, in Understanding Non–Monogamies 87 (Meg Barker & Darren Langdridge eds., Routledge 2010).
Deaf Dialogue: Legal and Therapeutic Discourse in Addressing the Military Deserter Population, in Law, Society & Culture 339 (Tel Aviv University 2008) (in Hebrew).
When the Saints Go Marching in: Legal Consciousness and Prison Experiences of Conscientious Objectors to Military Service in Israel, in The New Civil Rights Research: A Constitutive Approach 183 (Benjamin Fleury-Steiner & Laura Beth Nielsen eds. 2006).
Book Reviews
Book Review, Punishment & Soc’y ( 2022) (reviewing PAUL KAPLAN & DANIEL LACHANCE, CRIMESPLOITATION: CRIME, PUNISHMENT, AND PLEASURE ON REALITY TELEVISION (2022)).
What Were ‘They’ Thinking, and Does It Matter? Structural Inequality and Individual Intent in Criminal Justice Reform, 45 Law & Soc. Inquiry 249 ( 2020) (reviewing STANLEY COHEN, VISIONS OF SOCIAL CONTROL: CRIME, PUNISHMENT AND CLASSIFICATION (1985), JAMES FORMAN JR., LOCKING UP OUR OWN: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN BLACK AMERICA (2017) & HEATHER SCHOENFELD, BUILDING THE PRISON STATE: RACE AND THE POLITICS OF MASS INCARCERATION (2018)) .
Book Review, 54 J. Am. Stud. 1063 ( 2020) (reviewing BRETT STORY, PRISON LAND: MAPPING CARCERAL POWER ACROSS NEOLIBERAL AMERICA (2019)).
Book Review, 24 Punishment & Soc’y 136 ( 2020) (reviewing SARAH BETH KAUFMAN, AMERICAN ROULETTE: THE SOCIAL LOGIC OF DEATH PENALTY SENTENCING TRIALS (2020)).
Book Review, 53 Law & Soc’y Rev. 313 ( 2019) (reviewing DANIELLE ARLANDA HARRIS, DESISTANCE FROM SEXUAL OFFENDING: NARRATIVES OF RETIREMENT, REGULATION AND RECOVERY.).
Book Review, 51 Law & Soc’y Rev. 1017 ( 2017) (reviewing JOHN PFAFF, LOCKED IN (2107), PHILIP GOODMAN, JOSHUA PAGE, & MICHELLE PHELPS, BREAKING THE PENDULUM (2017)).
Book Review, 13 Persp. on Pol. 526 ( 2015) (reviewing ERICA WEISS, CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS IN ISRAEL: CITIZENSHIP, SACRIFICE, TRIALS OF FEALTY (2014)).
Book Review, 49 Law & Soc’y Rev. 295 ( 2015) (reviewing JONATHAN SIMON, MASS INCARCERATION ON TRIAL: A REMARKABLE COURT DECISION AND THE FUTURE OF PRISONS IN AMERICA (2014)).
Book Review, CritCom (Apr-15 2015) (reviewing OZGUR HEVAL CINAR, THE RIGHT TO CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION TO MILITARY SERVICE AND TURKEY’S OBLIGATIONS UNDER INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW).
Book Review, 17 Punishment & Soc’y 258 (2015 2014) (reviewing AUSTIN SARAT, GRUESOME SPECTACLES: BOTCHED EXECUTIONS AND AMERICA’S DEATH PENALTY).
Book Review, 15 Theoretical Criminology 106 ( 2011) (reviewing TAMAR PITCH: PERVASIVE PREVENTION: A FEMINIST READING OF THE RISE OF THE SECURITY SOCIETY) .
Book Review, 73 Mod. L. Rev 155 ( 2010) (reviewing NICOLE LACEY, WOMEN, CRIME AND CHARACTER: FROM MOL FLANDERS TO TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES (2008)).
Mass Atrocity and Criminology, 13 Theoretical Criminology 487 ( 2009) (reviewing JOHN HAGAN AND WENONA RYMOND–RICHMOND, DARFUR AND THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE (2008)).
Book Review, 43 Law & Soc’y Rev. 239 ( 2009) (reviewing RASMUS H. WANDALL, DECISIONS TO IMPRISON: COURT DECISION–MAKING INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE LAW (2007)).
Book Review, 4 L. Cult. & Human. 122 ( 2008) (reviewing DAPHNE BARAK EREZ, OUTLAWED PIGS (2007)).
Book Review, 19 Army & L. 373 ( 2007) (reviewing ZVI INBAR: THE SCALES AND THE SWORD) (in Hebrew).
Book Review, 19 Army & L. 377 ( 2007) (reviewing IRENA FEIN, MILITARY CRIMINAL LAW IN THE IDF (2006)) (in Hebrew).
Book Review, 8 Israeli Soc. 22 ( 2006) (reviewing LISA HAJJAR, COURTING CONFLICT (2005)) (in Hebrew).
Book Review, 2 L. Cult. & Human. 153 ( 2006) (reviewing ALISON DUNDES RENTELN, THE CULTURAL DEFENSE (2004)).
Newspaper & Magazine Articles
California’s COVID-19 Prison Disaster and the Trap of Palatable Reform, Boom California, Aug. 10, 2020.
The Death Penalty is in Limbo, The Recorder, 14-Jun 2013.
Governor Wrong to Criticize Inmates’ Lawyers, The Recorder, Feb. 22, 2013.
Props 34, 35 and 36: Old Patterns or New Solutions?, The Recorder, Oct.26, 2012.
Gang Members, How Different Are They?, 1 L.A.Daily J., Sept.22, 2011.
Why Realignment? A Story of Finances and Litigation, 1 L.A.Daily J., Nov.23, 2011.
Legally Blind: The Importance of Seeing Both Sides of a Case, 7 L.A.Daily J., 2-May 2011.
Do Problem-Solving Courts Solve Problems?, 1 L.A.Daily J., Mar.31, 2011.
California’s Death Penalty Is a Farce, 5 L.A.Daily J., Oct.1, 2010.
A Hard Look at the Prison Budget, S.F.Bay Guardian, 2-Jun 2009.
Dissertation
Managing Disobedience as Crime: Legal and Extra–Legal Discourse in Addressing Unauthorized Absences and Conscientious Objection to Military Service in Israel (Spring 2005) unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley (on file with Gardner Library University of California, Berkeley).