Publications and Presentations
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Prior, Francis, Steven Farough. 2021. "Struggling to Make Good: The Dilemmas of Fatherhood for Formerly Incarcerated African American Men." The Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology .
Prior, Francis. 2021. "Urban Neoliberal Debt Peonage: Prisoner Reentry, Work, and the New Jim Crow." Social Currents. (Online First) Feb 5.
Prior, Francis. 2020. "Security Culture: Surveillance and Responsibilization in a Prisoner Reentry Organization." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 49 (3).
Prior, Francis. 2014. “Quality Controlled: An Ethnographic Account of Tea Party Messaging and Action.” Sociological Forum 29(2).
REVIEW ARTICLES
Prior, Francis. 2017. Book Review. “From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America.” Contemporary Sociology 46(5).
WORKING PAPERS
"Violence as Adaptation in Hostile Community Context: An Interview Case Study of African American Women Convicted of Homicide"
"Twenty First Century Populism: Tea Party and Occupy in Ethnographic and Rhetorical Comparison." with Shantee Rosado
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
Roundtable at American Sociological Association 2021: Struggling to Make Good: The Dilemmas of Fatherhood for Low-Income Formerly Incarcerated African American Men
Roundtable at American Sociological Association 2018: “Downward Occupational Mobility: Collateral consequences of a criminal Record in Working Class Service Sector Employment”
Panel at Society for the Study of Social Problems 2018: “Prisoner Reentry as a Pathway to Deskilled Service Work Among Men with Working Class Human Capital”
Panel at Incarcerating Women and Girls 2018: “Interviews with Formerly Incarcerated Women”
Panel at Eastern Sociological Society 2018: “Redemption, Responsibilization, and Surveillance: Prisoner Reentry in a State-Run Street Level Bureaucracy”
Roundtable at American Society of Criminology 2015: “Prisoner Reentry: The Myth of Public Safety, Employment, and Legitimating Urban Governance”
Roundtable at American Sociological Association 2015: “New American Populism: Tea Party and Occupy in Ethnographic and Rhetorical Comparison," with Shantee Rosado. (Presider)
Roundtable at American Sociological Association 2015: “Cohesion of Security, Surveillance, and Service Provision in a Prisoner Reentry Organization.”
Presentation at Penn Urban Ethnography Workshop 2015: “Afterward: Service Provision Post-Release and the Mark of a Criminal Record.”
Panel at American Anthropological Association 2014: Prisoner Reentry: An Ethnographic Account of Service Provision and Social Insecurity.”
Panel at Mid-Atlantic Law and Society 2014: “Teaching the Sociology of Punishment at Elite Universities.”
Panel at Eastern Sociological Society 2014: “New American Populism: The Tea Party Movement and Occupy in Comparison,” with Shantee Rosado.
Roundtable at American Sociological Association 2012: “The Tea Party Movement: Struggles in Frame Vulnerability and Micromobilization.”
Panel at Eastern Sociological Society 2011: “The Tea Party Movement: Frames and Micromobilization.”
Poster Session at Eastern Sociological Society 2008: “The Effect of Progressive Politics on Unionization Rates.”