Research

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Peer-reviewed articles:

Beck, Brenden. 2024. “Do Austerity Cuts Spare Police Budgets? Welfare-to-Carceral Realign-ment During Fiscal Crises.” Criminology 62(4).

Beck, Brenden. 2024. “Local Government Spending: Policing Versus Social Services.” Annual Review of Criminology 8(1).

Beck, Brenden, Angela LaScala-Gruenewald, and Joseph Antonelli. 2024. “Neck-restraint Bans, Law Enforcement Officer Unions, and Police Killings.” Criminology and Public Policy.

Simes, Jessica, Brenden Beck, and John Eason. 2023. “Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial-Contextual Analyses of the Criminal Legal System.” Annual Review of Sociology 49:221-240.

Beck, Brenden. 2023. “Police Killings and Municipal Reliance on Fine-and-Fee Revenue.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9(2): 161–81.

Antonelli, Joseph and Brenden Beck. 2023. “Heterogeneous Causal Effects of Neighborhood Policing in New York City with Staggered Adoption of the Policy.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Statistics in Society, Series A.

2023    Beck, Brenden, Eaven Holder, Abigail Novak, and Jacob Kaplan. “The Material of Policing: Budgets, Personnel, and the United States’ Misdemeanor Arrest Decline.” The British Journal of Criminology 63(2): 330-347.

Beck, Brenden and Eaven Holder. 2022. “Proximity and Policing: Spatial Dynamics of the Misdemeanor Arrest Decline.” Socius 8: 1-12.

Beck, Brenden, Joseph Antonelli, and Gabriela Piñeros. 2022. “Effects of New York City’s Neighborhood Policing Policy.” Police Quarterly 25(4): 470-496.

Zapatka, Kasey* and Brenden Beck. 2021. “Does Demand Lead Supply? Gentrifiers and Developers in the Sequence of Gentrification.” Urban Studies 58(11): 2348-2368.

Beck, Brenden. 2020. “Policing Gentrification: Stops and Low-Level Arrests during Demographic Change and Real Estate Reinvestment.” City & Community 19(1): 245-272.

Beck, Brenden. 2019. “Broken Windows in the Cul-de-Sac: Race/Ethnicity and Quality-of-Life Policing in the Changing Suburbs.” Crime & Delinquency 65(2):270-292.

Beck, Brenden and Adam Goldstein. 2018. “Governing Through Police? Housing Market Reliance, Welfare Retrenchment, and Police Budgeting in an Era of Declining Crime.” Social Forces 96(3):1183-1210.

Alba, Richard, Brenden Beck, and Duygu Basaran Sahin. 2018. “The Rise of Mixed Parentage: A Sociological and Demographic Phenomenon to be Reckoned with.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 677(1): 26-38.

Alba, Richard, Brenden Beck, and Duygu Basaran Sahin. 2018. “The American Mainstream Expands—Again.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 44(1): 99-117.

Beck, Brenden, Anthony Buttaro Jr., and Mary Clare Lennon. 2016. “Home Moves and Child Well-being in the First Five Years of Life in the United States.” Journal of Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 7(3): 240-264.

Works in Progress (email for drafts)

Beck, Brenden. “Local Spending: Police Versus Social Services.”

Beck, Brenden. “Do Austerity Cuts Spare Police Budgets? Fiscal Crises and the Shift from Social Services to Law Enforcement in U.S. Cities.”

Mikulas, Alex, Brenden Beck, and Max Besbris. “Home Value Change and Racial Residential Segregation: Temporal Relationships at the Metro-level.”

Kendall, Emmett, Brenden Beck, and Joseph Antonelli. “Robust Inference for Geographic Regression Discontinuity Designs: Assessing the Impact of Police Precincts.”