Naomi F. Sugie
Biography
I study the relationship between criminal legal contact and inequality across various domains, including crime, health, families, employment, welfare, and voting. Across these areas, I use diverse methodological approaches for data collection and analysis. I am particularly interested in understanding how mobile phones can be used as social science tools and how technology can facilitate data access, replication, and transparency.
Alongside my research, one of my primary projects is helping to create PrisonPandemic, a digital archive of personal stories contributed by people incarcerated in California prisons, jails, and immigration detention facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Publications
Selected Articles
Sugie, Naomi F., Kristin Turney, Keramet Reiter, Rebecca Tublitz, Daniela Kaiser, Rebecca Goodsell, Erin Secrist, Ankita Patil, and Monik Jiménez. 2023. “Excess Mortality in U.S. Prisons During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Science Advances. 9(48): eadj8104.
Sugie, Naomi F. and Carol Newark. 2023. “Welfare Drug Bans and Criminal Legal Cycling.” American Journal of Sociology. 129(1).
Sugie, Naomi F. and Emma Conner. 2022. “Marginalization or Incorporation? Receipt of Welfare and Political Participation.” Social Problems.69(3):659-77.
Turney, Kristin and Naomi F. Sugie. 2021. “Connecting Models of Family Stress to Inequality: Parental Arrest and Family Life.” Journal of Marriage and Family. 83(1):102-118.
Sugie, Naomi F., Noah D. Zatz, and Dallas Augustine. 2020. “Employer Aversion to Criminal Records: An Experimental Study of Mechanisms.” Criminology. 58:5-34.
Gottlieb, Aaron and Naomi F. Sugie. 2019. “Marriage, Cohabitation, and Crime: Differentiating Associations by Partnership Stage.” Justice Quarterly. 36(3):503-531.
Sugie, Naomi F. 2018. “Work as Foraging: A Smartphone Study of Job Search and Employment after Prison.” American Journal of Sociology. 123(5):1453-1491.
Sugie, Naomi F. 2018. “Utilizing Smartphones to Study Disadvantaged and Hard-to-Reach Groups.” Sociological Methods and Research. 47(3):458-491.
Sugie, Naomi F. and Kristin Turney. 2017. “Beyond Incarceration: Criminal Justice Contact and Mental Health” American Sociological Review 82(4):719-743.
Sugie, Naomi F. and Michael C. Lens. 2017. “Daytime Locations in Spatial Mismatch: Job Accessibility and Employment at Reentry from Prison.” Demography 54(2):775-800.
