My Work
Publications
Davis, B. (2021). Feeling Politics: Carceral Contact, Well-Being and Participation. Policy Studies Journal. 49(2), 591-615.
Davis, B. (2021). Predation in State and Nation. Race and Justice, 11(2), 205-225.
Davis, B. (2020). Testing Mechanisms: Carceral Contact and Political Participation. Social Science Quarterly. 101(2), 909-924.
Davis, B. (2019). Are Majority Minority Districts Too Safe?: A look at the Alabama State Legislature. DuBois Review: Social Science Research on Race. 16(1), 157-175.
Davis, B (Forthcoming). Redistricting. In T. King-Meadow, K. Middlemass, & V. Sinclair-Chapman (Eds.), African Americans in the American Political System: An Encyclopedia of African Americans as Voters, Candidates, and Office Holders. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
Davis, B (Forthcoming). Stop and Frisk. In T. King-Meadow, K. Middlemass, & V. Sinclair-Chapman (Eds.), African Americans in the American Political System: An Encyclopedia of African Americans as Voters, Candidates, and Office Holders. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
Book Chapters
Davis, B. (Forthcoming) “Criminal Justice in State and Nation.” Chapter 10 in T. Kousser, C. Tolbert, and J. Michener, eds., Politics in the American States: A comparative analysis. 12th Edition, Congressional Quarterly Press.
Davis, B. (Forthcoming) "Liberty is for Everyone" in D. D'Amico and A. Martin, eds. Marginalized Groups and the Market Processes.
Davis, B. (Forthcoming) "Liberalism, Race, and Adversarial Justice" in F. Rojas and C. Stern, eds. Freedom is a Social Process.
Book Review
Davis, B. (2022). The Ethics of Policing: New Perspectives on Law Enforcement. Edited by Ben Jones and Eduardo Mendieta. New York: New York University Press, 2021. 311p. $99.00 cloth, $35.00 paper. Perspectives on Politics, 20(1), 330-331.doi:10.1017/S1537592721003777
Under Review
The Politics of Racial Abjection (Revise and Resubmit)
Faith, Race, and Immigration: Religiosity and Racial Resentment
Public Assistance and Participatory Behavior
Carceral Classrooms: Gendered Pathways into the Welfare State
Working Papers
Race of Prosecutors and Adjudication Outcomes
Race of Judges and Sentencing Outcomes
Carceral Contact, Trust, and Participation
Policing Queerness: LGBTQ+ and Carceral Contact
Antigone: Autonomy and the State
Book Project
We Dare Defend Our Rights: The Alabama Democratic Conference
NSF CAREER Award
We Dare Defend Our Rights: The Political Use of Law in the Enforcement of Voting Rights (Funded - $483, 302/5 years)
Federal Statistical Research Data Center
Pending Proposal
Other Publications
Davis, B. (2022) Out of Many, One. Liberty Matters
Davis, B. and Jordan D. (2021) Expanding Medicaid would enable treatment for mental health illness and ease the burden on law enforcement. Topeka Capital-Journal
Davis, B. (2020) Carceral Contact and Participation. 3Streams
Davis, B (2016) Globalizing the Agenda of #BlackLivesMatter. Agenda for International Development.
Davis, B. (2015) Graduate students hurt by the Affordable Care Act. The Hill, July 29, 2015.
Davis, B. (2014) Ferguson the Latest Front in the State’s War on Black Community. PanAm Post August 22, 2004.
