Research

Criminology, Law & Society PhD Candidate - On the Market

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justin.sola@uci.edu

I research security-seeking behaviors like gun ownership and how the criminal justice system interacts with inequality. I use preregistered experiments (forced-choice conjoint and vignette), longitudinal designs (smartphone-delivered surveys), semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and content analysis techniques like topic modeling. Active projects include:

  1. Evaluating the Shadow Costs of reentry, diversion, and rehabilitation treatment programs
  2. Investigating how socioeconomic hardship affects desire for guns
  3. Critiquing theories of neoliberalism
  4. Assessing how gun ownership affects neighborhood socialization

Latest Blog

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Recent Publications

2023

  1. 2023
    Making the Call: How Does Perceived Race Affect Desire to Call the Police?
    Sola, Justin L. and Charis E. Kubrin.
    Experimental Criminology (Online First).,
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2022

  1. 2022
    Barred: Labor Market Dynamics and Human Capital Development Among People on Probation and Parole.
    Sykes, B., …. & Sola, J.
    Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Volume 701 Issue 1: 28-45).,
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  2. 2022
    Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Public Assistance, Monetary Sanctions, and Financial Double-Dealing in America.
    Sykes, B., …. & Sola, J.
    RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences (Volume 8 Issue 1: 148-178).,
    Question Website

2021

  1. 2021
    Transmitting Desire: An Experiment on a Novel Measure of Gun Desirability in a Pandemic.
    Sola, Justin L.
    Sociological Perspectives (Volume 65 Issue 5: 939-969,
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