Open access courses I designed:
Roussell, Aaron. (2025). The Sociology of Law. © 2025 under CC BY-NC 4.0.
Selected technical, grant, and legal reports:
Roussell, A., Imle, B., Rodriguez Fernandez, G., Strange, W., Flores, L., Daza Hernandez, T.G., & Ramirez Valdiviezo, I.P. (2019). Supplemental report to the Oregon Law Foundation on the legal needs of Oregonian seasonal farmworkers. Technical report for the Oregon Law Foundation, Portland OR.
Roussell, A., & Strange, W. (2018). Report to the Oregon Law Foundation on the Legal Needs of Impoverished Oregonians. Technical report for the Oregon Law Foundation, Portland OR.
Roussell, A., Cortright, C., Posey, B. & Foster, C. (2015). Holmes et al. v. City of Racine, WI: Expert witness report. U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. 14-CV-208-JPS.
Hipp, J.R., Tita, G.E., Gascón, L.D.*, & Roussell, A.* (2010). Ethnically transforming neighborhoods and violent crime among and between African-Americans and Latinos: A study of south Los Angeles. Technical report/grant deliverable for the Haynes Foundation of Los Angeles.
Other non-peer reviewed work:
Roussell, A. (2022). The “Portland Police have been defunded!” talking point is really absurd and needs to stop. PDX.Vote.
Roussell, A. (2021). The “voluntariness” of program reduction: Never let a good crisis go to waste. Academe blog, American Association of University Professors.
Roussell, A. (2020, September). In pursuit of “voluntary compliance”: Police protest-reform cycles. For Disarm PSU Education. (online video recording)
Roussell, A. & Rodriguez Fernandez, G. (2020, August). Why federal intervention in Portland shouldn’t be a shock. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog, London School of Economics.
Vitale, A. (2020, April). The Critical Criminologist with Alex Vitale: The Limits of Community Policing with Luis Daniel Gascón and Aaron Roussell. (interview)
Vitale, A. (2019, October 11). Imagining a world beyond policing. Organized at Portland State University, Portland, OR with CAREpdx, PSU Sociology Club.
Roussell, A. (2019, February). No reason to trust Portland police. Medium.
Roussell, A. (2017, February). The quiet death of community policing. Citizen Critics.
Fortin, V.,* & Roussell, A. (2012). “Just the facts”: Student occupations, police repression, and “protest management” in California. The Critical Criminologist, 21, 1, 8-14. Journal permalink.
* Denotes equal author contribution