Amanda Geller

About

Amanda Geller, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. Her research and scholarship sit at the intersection of criminal justice and social inequality, using life course theory and quantitative methodologies to examine ways in which systems of social and legal control affect urban residents, families, and communities. Her work has been published in outlets including Criminology and Public Policy, the American Journal of Public Health, and Social Science and Medicine.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Environmental health
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Demography
• Medicine
• Gerontology
• Criminology
• Developmental psychology
• Geography

Selected publications

• De-Policing America’s Youth: Disrupting Criminal Justice Policy Feedbacks That Distort Power and Derail Prospects

  The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 2019-09-01 · 70 citations

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  The standard account of policy feedback holds that social policy can be self-reinforcing: policies provide resources that promote economic security and well-being, and they also encourage beneficiaries to engage with government. Criminal justice policies have typically had the opposite effect: they embolden those with interests in a punitive policy agenda, while disempowering those most affected by the policies. This is of particular concern for children and adolescents in race-class subjugated…

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• Measuring Racial Disparities in Police Use of Force: Methods Matter

  Journal of Quantitative Criminology · 2020 · 30 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
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• Policing sexuality: Sexual minority youth, police contact, and health inequity

  SSM - Population Health · 2022-11-17 · 21 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  Police contact is increasingly recognized as an adverse childhood experience and determinant of poor mental health. While targeting of LGBTQ sex and community spaces by law enforcement has a long precedent in US history-and while LGBTQ people continue to protest unfair police treatment-little population-level research has examined police contact disparities by sexual orientation or gender identity. We test whether sexual minority (SM) youth have higher risk of police contact through young adulth…

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• Longitudinal Associations between Police Harassment and Experiences of Violence among Black Men Who Have Sex with Men in Six US Cities: the HPTN 061 Study

  Journal of Urban Health · 2021-04-01 · 20 citations

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• Racial and ethnic disparities in “stop-and-frisk” experience among young sexual minority men in New York City

  PLoS ONE · 2021 · 18 citations

  Although racial/ethnic disparities in police contact are well documented, less is known about other dimensions of inequity in policing. Sexual minority groups may face disproportionate police contact. We used data from the P18 Cohort Study (Version 2), a study conducted to measure determinants of inequity in STI/HIV risk among young sexual minority men (YSMM) in New York City, to measure across-time trends, racial/ethnic disparities, and correlates of self-reported stop-and-frisk experience over…

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Frequent coauthors

• Jeffrey Fagan

  National Institute of Standards

  54 shared

• Tom R. Tyler

  44 shared

• Irwin Garfinkel

  9 shared

• Kenneth H. Mayer

  Fenway Health

  8 shared

• Marah A. Curtis

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  6 shared

• Jeffrey Fagan

  6 shared

• Maria R. Khan

  Nishtar Medical College and Hospital

  6 shared

• Joy D. Scheidell

  6 shared

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