Nicholas Petersen

* = graduate student co-author

1. Lanuza, Yader, Nick Petersen, and Marisa Omori. Forthcoming. “Colorism in Punishment Among Hispanics in the Criminal Justice System.” Social Problems.
2. Marisa Omori and Nick Petersen. 2020. “Institutionalizing Inequality in the Courts: Decomposing Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Detention, Conviction and Sentencing.” Criminology.Vol. 58(4) 678-713.
3. James Binnall and Nick Petersen. 2020. “They’re Just Different: The Bifurcation of Public Attitudes Toward Felon-Jurors Convicted of Violent Offenses.” Crime, Law and Social Change. DOI: 10.1007/s10611-020-09912-3.
4. James Binnall and Nick Petersen. 2020. “No Fear Here: How the Public Views Anticipated Interactions with Jurors Convicted of a Felony.” Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law (non-peer-reviewed law review article). Vol. 25, No. 2, 1–137,  DOI: https://doi.org/10.15779/Z382N4ZJ6Z
5. Binnall, James and Nick Petersen. 2020. “.” Criminology and Criminal Justice. 1-21, DOI: 10.1177/1748895819898518.
6. Rahul Dass*, Nick Petersen, Ubbo Visser, and Marisa Omori. 2020. “It’s Not Just Black and White: Classifying Defendant Mugshots Based on the Multidimensionality of Race and Ethnicity.” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer and Robot Vision. DOI 10.1109/CRV50864.2020.0003 (peer-reviewed conference paper).
7. Binnall, James and Nick Petersen. 2020. “Building Biased Jurors: Revealing the Circularity of the Inherent Bias Rationale for Felon-Juror Exclusion.” Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. Vol. 27, No. 1, 110–125. DOI: 10.1080/13218719.2019.1687047.
8. Petersen, Nick. 2020. “Cumulative Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Potentially Capital Cases: A Multi-Stage Analysis of Pre-trial Disparities.” Criminal Justice Review, Vol. 45(2) 225-249. DOI: 10.1177/0734016817721291.
9. Petersen, Nick and Marisa Omori. 2020. “Is the Process the Only Punishment?: Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Lower-Level Courts.” Law & Policy, 1–22. DOI: 10.1111/lapo.12140.
10. Martinez*, Brandon P., Nick Petersen, and Marisa Omori. 2019. “Time, Money, and Punishment: Institutional Racial-Ethnic Inequalities in Pretrial Detention and Case Outcomes.” Crime and Delinquency, 1–27. DOI: 10.1177/0011128719881600.
    • Featured on London School of Economics American Politics and Policy Blog (https://bit.ly/2WtViiY)
11. Ward, Geoff, Nick Petersen, Aaron Kupchik, and James Pratt*. 2019. “School Discipline and the Legacy of Racialized Violence: Historic Lynching and Racially Disparate Corporal Punishment in Southern Schools.” Social Problems, 1–22. DOI: 10.1093/socpro/spz044.
    • Featured in Huffington Post (https://bit.ly/30ArWj9).
12. Petersen, Nick. 2019b. “Low-Level, but High Speed?: Assessing Pretrial Detention Effects on the Timing and Content of Misdemeanor versus Felony Guilty Pleas.” Justice Quarterly, 2019, Vol.36(7), pp.1314-1335. DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2019.1639791.
13. Petersen, Nick. 2019a. “Do detainees plead guilty faster?: A survival analysis of pretrial detention and the timing of guilty pleas.” Criminal Justice Policy Review, 31(7) 1015–1035, DOI: 10.1177/0887403419838020.
14. Wilson, George, Nick Petersen, David Maume, and Ryan Smith. 2019. “Particularism and Racial Mobility into Privileged Occupations.” Social Science Research, 78 (2019) 82–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2018.10.015.
15. Petersen, Nick, Marisa Omori, and Rachel Lautenschlager*. 2018. “(Dis)order in the Court: Examining Neighborhood Disorder Prosecutions in Miami-Dade County.” Justice Quarterly, (2018) Vol.36(7), 1250–1279. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2018.1523448.
16. Williams, Jessica, Nick Petersen, and Justin Stoler. 2018. “Characterizing the Spatial Mismatch Between Intimate Partner Violence Related Healthcare Services and Arrests in Miami-Dade County, Florida.” Bio-Med Central (BMC) Public Health, (2018) 18:1085, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5985-5.
17. Martínez, Brandon*, Nick Petersen, and George Wilson. 2018. “Pathways to Cuban-American Homeownership: A Case Study of Race, Assimilation, and Ownership Dynamics.” Pp. 93-118 in Latinos in the 21st Century: Their Voices and Lived Experiences, edited by Nova Science Publishers Inc.: Hauppauge, NY (non-peer reviewed book chapter)
18. Dunham, Roger and Nick Petersen (equal authorship). 2017. “Making Black Lives Matter: Evidence-Based Policies for Reducing Police Bias in the Use of Deadly Force” Criminology & Public Policy, 16(1)
19. Petersen, Nick. 2017b. “Examining the Sources of Racial Bias in Potentially Capital Cases: A Case Study of Police and Prosecutorial Discretion.” Race and Justice: An International Journal, 7(1) 7-34. DOI: 10.1177/2153368716645842.
20. Petersen, Nick. 2017a. “Neighbourhood Context and Unsolved Murders: The Social Ecology of Homicide Investigations.” Policing & Society. 27(4). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2015.1063629
21. Petersen, Nick. 2016. “Neighborhood Context and Media Constructions of Murder: A Multi-Level Analysis of Homicide Newspaper Coverage in Los Angeles County.” Homicide Studies, 20(1) 25–52. DOI: 10.1177/1088767914554616.
22. Petersen, Nick and Geoff Ward. 2015. “The Transmission of Historical Racial Violence: Lynching, Civil Rights-Era Terror, and Contemporary Interracial Homicide.” Race and Justice: An International Journal, 5(2) 114-143. DOI: 10.1177/2153368714567577.
23. Petersen, Nick and Mona Lynch. 2013. “Prosecutorial Discretion, Hidden Costs, and the Death Penalty: The Case of Los Angeles County.” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 102(4) 1233-1274.

• Cited in Arizona Supreme Court case Bush v. Arizona (139 S. Ct. 1546, 2019).