Research Papers

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.

Selected papers. Full text for all are available at the associated links or https://works.bepress.com/aaron-roussell/. If all else fails, feel free to contact me:

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. https://doi.org/10.1177/21533687241273904

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, OnlineFirst. journals-sagepub-com.proxy.lib.pdx.edu/doi/pdf/10.1177/1362480620984233

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. Early View: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1745-9133.12289/full  

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 & Justice, 8, 3, 270-297. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2153368716678289

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. sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095539591630055X 

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. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9566.12421/full 

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, Volume 21, pp. 219-236. Bingley, UK: Emerald. works.bepress.com/aaron-roussell/13/ 

Roussell, A. (2015). Policing the anticommunity: Race, deterritorialization, and labor market reorganization in South Los Angeles. Law & Society Review, 49, 4, 813-846. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lasr.12168/full                                                                                                                                                                        

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. academic.oup.com/socpro/article-abstract/61/2/237/1672135 

Hipp, J.R., & Roussell, A. (2013). Micro- and macro-environment population and the consequences for crime rates. Social Forces, 92, 563-595. academic.oup.com/sf/article-abstract/92/2/563/2235813 

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. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1362480613476986 

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. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0011128709336939 

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. works.bepress.com/aaron-roussell/15/                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

* Denotes equal author contribution