Burkhardt, Brett C. 2024. "From Private Prisons to Private Detention: Visualizing the Business of Immigration Enforcement." Socius, 10.
Burkhardt, Brett C. 2024. "Legitimation work in privatized criminal justice: Softening, shrinking, and signaling." Theoretical Criminology, online first. (Pre-print.)
Huff, Aimee, Brett C. Burkhardt, and Michelle Barnhart. 2024. “Advertising Frames and the Legitimation of the Armed American Woman”. Journal of Macromarketing, 44(1):153-177.
Burkhardt, Brett C., Mark Edwards, Scott Akins, and Christopher Stout. 2023. "Understanding Public Preferences for Policing Homeless Individuals in the United States: Results from a National Survey." Deviant Behavior, 44(10):1462-1479. (Accepted manuscript.)
Burkhardt, Brett C., and Scott Akins. 2022. “How Should Police Respond to Homelessness? Results from a Survey Experiment in Portland, Oregon.” Criminal Justice Studies, 35(3):274-294. (Accepted manuscript.)
Burkhardt, Brett C., and Brian T. Connor. 2021. “Toward a Political Sociology of Privatized Punishment: Contestation, State Structures, and Stratification.” Sociology Compass, 15(5):e12874. (Accepted manuscript.)
Borradaile, Glencora, Brett Burkhardt, and Alexandria LeClerc. 2020. “Whose Tweets Are Surveilled for the Police: An Audit of a Social-Media Monitoring Tool via Log Files.” In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 570–580. FAT* ’20. Barcelona, Spain: Association for Computing Machinery, 2020.
Burkhardt, Brett C. 2019. “The Politics of Correctional Privatization in the United States.” Criminology & Public Policy. 18(2):401-418. (Accepted manuscript.)
Burkhardt, Brett C. 2019. "Does the Public Sector Respond to Private Competition? An Analysis of Privatization and Prison Performance." Journal of Crime and Justice, 42(2): 201-220. (Accepted manuscript.)
Burkhardt, Brett C. and Keith Baker. 2019. "Agency Correlates of Police Militarization: The Case of MRAPs." Police Quarterly. 22(2):161-191. (Accepted manuscript.)
Burkhardt, Brett C. 2019. "Contesting Market Rationality: Discursive Struggles over Prison Privatization." Punishment & Society. 21(2):162-186. (Accepted manuscript.)
Burkhardt, Brett C. 2017. "Who Is in Private Prisons? Demographic Profiles of Prisoners and Workers in American Private Prisons." International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice. 51:24-33. (Accepted manuscript.)
Burkhardt, Brett C., Scott Akins, Jon Sassaman, Scott Jackson, Ken Elwer, Charles Lanfear, Mariana Amorim, and Katelyn Stevens. 2017. "University Researcher and Law Enforcement Collaboration: Lessons from a Study of Justice-Involved Persons with Suspected Mental Illness." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 61(5):508-525. (Accepted manuscript.)
Burkhardt, Brett C. 2017. "Who Punishes Whom? Bifurcation of Private and Public Responsibilities in Criminal Punishment." Journal of Crime and Justice, 40(4): 512-527. (Accepted manuscript.)
Burkhardt, Brett C. and Brian Connor. 2016. "Durkheim, Punishment, and Prison Privatization." Social Currents, 3(1):84-99. (Accepted manuscript.)
Burkhardt, Brett C. and Alisha Jones. 2016. "Judicial Intervention into Prisons: Comparing Private and Public Prisons from 1990 to 2005.'' Justice System Journal, 37(1):39-52. (Accepted manuscript.)
Akins, Scott, Brett C. Burkhardt, and Charles Lanfear. 2016. "Law Enforcement Response to `Frequent Fliers': An Examination of High-Frequency Contacts between Police and Justice-Involved Persons with Mental Illness." Criminal Justice Policy Review, 27(1), 97-114. (Accepted manuscript.)
Burkhardt, Brett C. 2015. “Where Have All the (White and Hispanic) Inmates Gone? Comparing the Racial Composition of Private and Public Adult Correctional Facilities.” Race and Justice 5(1):33–57. (Accepted manuscript.)
Burkhardt, Brett C. 2014. “Private Prisons in Public Discourse: Measuring Moral Legitimacy.” Sociological Focus 47(4):279–98. (Accepted manuscript.)
Heinrich, Carolyn J., Brett C. Burkhardt, and Hilary M. Shager. 2011. “Reducing Child Support Debt and Its Consequences: Can Forgiveness Benefit All?” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 30(4):755–74.
Burkhardt, Brett C. 2011. “Ideology over Strategy: Extending Voting Rights to Felons and Ex-Felons, 1966–1992.” Social Science Journal 48(2):356–63. (Accepted manuscript.)
Burkhardt, Brett C. 2009. “Criminal Punishment, Labor Market Outcomes, and Economic Inequality: Devah Pager’s Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration.” Law & Social Inquiry 34(4):1039–60.
Burkhardt, Brett C. and Troy Ramsey. 2024. “A second Trump term may be very good for the private prison industry.” London School of Economics’ American Politics and Policy blog.
Burkhardt, Brett. C. and Story Edison. 2020. “Correctional Privatization in the United States: Past, Present, and Future.” In Privatisation in Criminal Justice: Key Issues and Debates, (ed. Philip Bean): Routledge. (Accepted manuscript.)
Brett C. Burkhardt. 2019. “Review: Shane Bauer, American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into The Business Of Punishment.” Rutgers’ Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books. Available at: https://clcjbooks.rutgers.edu/.
Brett C. Burkhardt. 2017. "Private prisons, explained." The Conversation. (Reprinted in Salon.com.)
Brett C. Burkhardt. 2016. "The federal Bureau of Prisons' move to phase-out private prisons is a largely symbolic one." London School of Economics USAPP blog.
Akins, Scott, Brett C. Burkhardt, Charles Lanfear. 2016. "A new method for identifying those with mental illness who have frequent contacts with police may help those in need to get treatment." London School of Economics USAPP blog.
Brett C. Burkhardt. 2015 (advance online publication). "Review: Robert A. Ferguson, Inferno: An Anatomy of American Punishment". Punishment & Society. (doi: 10.1177/1462474514559492).
Akins, Scott, Brett C. Burkhardt, Charles Lanfear, Katelyn Stevens, and Mariana Amorim. 2014. "Law Enforcement Response to People with Mental Illnesses in Benton County". White paper prepared for the Oregon State University Policy Analysis Laboratory (OPAL).
Akins, Scott, Brett C. Burkhardt, Charles Lanfear, Katelyn Stevens, and Mariana Amorim. 2014. "Law Enforcement Response to People with Mental Illnesses in Benton County: Executive Summary." Report prepared for the Willamette Criminal Justice Council.
Cancian, Maria, Carolyn Heinrich, Ingrid Rothe, Hilary Shager, and Brett Burkhardt. 2006. "Families Forward: Child Support Arrears Forgiveness Program and Evaluation Report." Report prepared under contractual agreement for the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development. Madison, WI: Institute for Research on Poverty.