April Fernandes

Area(s) of Expertise

Punishment & social control / Monetary sanctions / Race & ethnicity / Disability / Law & Society / Pay-to-Stay / Health disparities / Deviance / Urban sociology

Publications

• Latina/o/x Criminology and Justice: Pedagogy, Curriculum, Representation, and Reflections. An Introduction to the Special Issue , JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE EDUCATION (2023)
• Life Course Statuses of Justice-Involved Youth Transitioning to Adulthood: Differences and Change in Offending and Mental Health , JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL AND LIFE-COURSE CRIMINOLOGY (2023)
• The "Damaged" State vs. the "Willful" Nonpayer: Pay-to-Stay and the Social Construction of Damage, Harm, and Moral Responsibility in a Rent-Seeking Society , RSF-THE RUSSELL SAGE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (2022)
• "Like if you Get a Hotel Bill": Consumer Logic, Pay-to-Stay, and the Production of Incarceration as a Public Commodity* , SOCIOLOGICAL FORUM (2021)
• A Macrolevel Study of Police Killings at the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender , CRIME & DELINQUENCY (2021)
• How Far Up the River? Criminal Justice Contact and Health Outcomes , SOCIAL CURRENTS (2020)
• On the Job or in the Joint: Criminal Justice Contact and Employment Outcomes , CRIME & DELINQUENCY (2020)
• Who Pays for the Welfare State? Austerity Politics and the Origin of Pay-to-Stay Fees as Revenue Generation , SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES (2020)
• Monetary Sanctions: A Review of Revenue Generation, Legal Challenges, and Reform , ANNUAL REVIEW OF LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCE, VOL 15 (2019)
• Race, Crime, and Criminal Justice: Fifty Years Since The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society , CRIMINOLOGY & PUBLIC POLICY (2018)