Book:
Gascón, L.D.,* & Roussell, A. (2019). The limits of community policing: Civilian power and police accountability in Black and Brown Los Angeles. New York: NYU Press. Book site permalink.
Feel free to contact me if these links don't work. Selected papers:
Roussell, A. & Anonymous. (2024). Taking up space and making demands: Portland State University students construct the free and autonomous Refaat Alareer Memorial Library. Radical Teacher 130, 1, 5-8. Journal permalink.
Roussell, A., Imle, B., & Rodriguez Fernandez, G. (2024). “En el campo, siempre es asi”: A mixed methodological assessment of Spanish speaking immigrant farmworker legal needs in Oregon. Race and Justice 15, 3, 485-509. Journal permalink.
Roussell, A., Sexton, L, Deppen, P., Omori, M.K., & Scheibler, E. (2022). The dark footprint of state violence: A synthetic approach to the American homicide decline. Theoretical Criminology 26, 326-346. Journal permalink.
Roussell, A., Henne, K., Glover, K., & Willits, D. (2019). The impossibility of a “reverse racism effect.” A rejoinder to James, James and Vila. Criminology & Public Policy 18, 1, E5-E16. Journal permalink.
Gascón, L.D., & Roussell, A. (2018). An exercise in failure: Punishing “at-risk” youth and families in a South Los Angeles boot camp program. Race and Justice 8, 3, 270-297. Journal permalink.
Jensen, E.L.,* & Roussell, A. (2016). Field observations of the developing recreational cannabis economy in Washington State, USA. International Journal of Drug Policy 33, 96-101. Journal permalink.
Roussell, A.,* & Omori, M.K. (2016). Normalizing desistance: Contextualizing marijuana and cocaine use careers in young adults. Sociology of Health and Illness 38, 6, 916-938. Journal permalink.
Roussell, A., & Dunbar, J. (2016). Paradise lost: White flight, broken windows, and the construction of a criminogenic origin myth. In Deflem, M. (Ed.), The politics of policing: Between force and legitimacy, Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance, 21, 219-236. Bingley, UK: Emerald.
Roussell, A. (2015). Policing the anticommunity: Race, deterritorialization, and labor market reorganization in South Los Angeles. Law & Society Review 49, 4, 813-846. Journal permalink.
Roussell, A., & Gascón, L.D. (2014). Defining “policeability”: Cooperation, control, and resistance in South Los Angeles community police meetings. Social Problems 61, 2, 237-258. Journal permalink.
Hipp, J.R., & Roussell, A. (2013). Micro- and macro-environment population and the consequences for crime rates. Social Forces 92, 563-595. Journal permalink.
Lynch, M., Omori, M.K.*, Roussell, A.*, & Valasik, M.A. (2013). Policing the “progressive” city: The racialized geography of drug law enforcement. Theoretical Criminology 17, 335-357. Journal permalink.
Roussell, A., Holmes, M.D., & Anderson-Sprecher, R. (2013). Community characteristics and methamphetamine use in a rural state: An analysis of preincarceration usage by prison inmates. Crime & Delinquency 59, 1036-1063. Journal permalink.
Roussell, A. (2012). The forensic identification of marijuana: Suspicion, moral danger, and the creation of non-psychoactive THC. Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology, 22, 103-131. Journal permalink, sorta.
Heck, C., & Roussell, A. (2007). State administration of drug courts: Exploring issues of authority, funding, and legitimacy. Criminal Justice Policy Review 18, 418-433. Journal permalink.
* Denotes equal author contribution