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This collection contains scholarly work by Aaron Roussell, PhD and Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University. Roussell earned his PhD in Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine, and his MA in Sociology from the University of Wyoming. His research and teaching interests focus on conceptions of race, class, and social danger, specifically with respect to community policing, disorder, and drug law. He is also interested in problems of method and how they fit into a larger discourse on law and science. His approaches are informed by a blend of sociology, law and society, criminology, and critical theory.
Recent Submissions
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Policing the anticommunity: Race, deterritorialization, and labor market reorganization in South Los Angeles
(Law & Society Review, 2015)Recent decades have seen the rise of both community partnerships and the carceral state. Community policing in Los Angeles arose after the 1992 uprisings and was built on two conceptual building blocks—the territorial ... -
Paradise lost: White flight, broken windows, and the construction of a criminogenic origin myth
(American Society of Criminology, 2014)This presentation deconstructs narratives about crime, pointing to racist assumptions in narratives that are framed as colorblind. This presentation occurred at the meeting of the American Society of Criminology in San ... -
Defining "policeability": Cooperation, control, and resistance in South Los Angeles community police meetings
(Social Problems, 2014)Community policing partnerships are built and maintained by community meetings wherein participants coproduce social order by identifying local problems and devising strategies for their reduction and resolution. Coproduction ... -
Policing the progressive city: The racialized geography of drug law enforcement
(Theoretical Criminology, 2013)This article explores selective drug law enforcement practices in a single municipality, San Francisco, where racial disproportionality in drug arrest rates is among the highest in the United States. We situate this work ... -
The "Territorial Imperative" and Problem Solving Partnerships: LAPD Defines Community
(2013)This presentation, delivered in 2013 for the American Society of Criminology, considers community-based policing and its use in Los Angeles, California. The presentation considers the effect of community-based policing on ... -
The Forensic Identification of Marijuana: Suspicion, Moral Danger, and the Creation of Non-Psychoactive THC
(Albany Law Review, 2012)American federal and state laws present marijuana as a dangerous substance requiring coercive control and forbid private citizens from possessing, selling, or growing it. The differences between marijuana and hemp--a similar ... -
State Administration of Drug Courts: Exploring Issues of Authority, Funding, and Legitimacy
(Criminal Justice Policy Review, 2007)Although drug courts are local programs, many were established using federal grant dollars from the U.S. Department of Justice. As these federal grants run their course and overall federal funding for drug courts declines, ...