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Victoria Piehowski

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Specialties

  • Punishment culture and discourse, institutional responses to violent crime, race, class, gender and qualitative methods
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Publications

  • Piehowski, V., Phelps, M. (forthcoming). Strong-arm Sobriety: Addressing Precarity through Probation. Law & Social Inquiry.

  • Piehowski, V. (2020). Under the punitive aegis: Dependency and the family justice center model.  Punishment & Society. DOI: 1462474520972264.

  • Page J., Piehowski, V., and Soss J. (2019). A debt of care: commercial bail and the gendered logic of criminal justice predation. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 5(1): 150-172.

          *Honorable Mention Recipient for the Sociology of Law Distinguished Article Award (American Sociological Association), 2021.

  • Horowitz, V., Larson, R. Nobles, A., Piehowski, V. & Page, J. (2021) "Pragmatic punitiveness: The institutionalization of criminal domestic violence protection orders." Social & Legal Studies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639211061848

  • Piehowski, V. (2012). "‘Business as Usual’: Sex, Race, and Work in Spike Lee's Bamboozled." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 33(1): 1-23.
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  • Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship , https://www.acls.org/fellow-grantees/victoria-piehowski/, 2022-2023
  • Don Martindale Fellowship, 2022
  • Mark & Judy Yudof Fellowship for Science Policy and Ethics , 2021-2022
  • College of Liberal Arts Doctoral Dissertation fellowship , 2020
  • Sociological Research Institute Engaged Scholarship Award , 2020
  • Anna Welsch Bright Research Award , 2019
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