Do Trump's indictments increase his support among Republican primary voters? NO. Polls suggesting this use a bad question format. We asked better questions (about the documents indictment) and found that indictments hurt Trump a little bit. Preprint: osf.io/csh8g

New Publication! In Punishment and Society, our team documents "The Prison Bust." Prison closures have outpaced prison openings for more than 20 years. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/HBPNZF6…

Really cool opportunity 👇

some professional news: this fall I will be joining MSU Political Science as a Dean’s Research Associate (postdoc fellow to tenure-track assistant prof) 1/3

Very excited to say that my first article, co-authored with Courtney Blackington, is now published on first view and open access with @PoPPublicSphere! A quick thread…

📢📢📢 ATTN: It's that time of year again! CFP for #JusticeAndInjustice 2024 is now available!! 📢📢📢 Apply here by May 10 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… cc: Allison P. Harris Ariel White Dara Strolovitch 1/4

Does a rural-urban political divide exist among people of color? Trevor E. Brown, Gisela Pedroza Jauregui, Suzanne Mettler, and I looked at 30+ questions on political behavior and policy preferences and find little to no evidence of one. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Call for papers: Justice and Injustice 2024 Oct 24-25 at Yale Deadline for submissions: May 10 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Roper Center’s 2021 Mitofsky Graduate Fellow, Jacob Harris, is one of the authors of a new journal article, “Race, Religion, and Death: How Racial Attitudes Contextualize the Relationship Between Religion and Support for Capital Punishment,” JSSRjournal. doi.org/10.1111/jssr.1…

This is a warning sign for the Trump campaign

I'm discussing Kevin Morris and Kelsey Shoub's paper on mass shootings and political participation and would also echo that this is a really great paper. They use a powerful causal design to show that mass shootings *locally* increase turnout. Come check out their work!