Recent Publications & Working Papers
Recent Publications & Working Papers
Simes, Jessica T. 2021. Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.
Jahn, Jaquelyn L., Jessica T. Simes, and Jonathan Jay. 2024. "Evaluating Firearm Violence after New Jersey's Cash Bail Reform." JAMA Network Open.
Simes, Jessica T., Tori L. Cowger, and Jaquelyn L. Jahn. 2023. “School Closures Significantly Reduced Arrests of Black and Latinx Urban Youth.” PLoS ONE.
Simes, Jessica T., Brenden Beck, and John Eason. 2023. “Policing, Punishment, and Place: Spatial Analyses of the Criminal Legal System.” Annual Review of Sociology.
Simes, Jessica T., Bruce Western, and Angela Lee. 2022. "Mental Health Disparities in Solitary Confinement." Criminology.
Simes, Jessica T. and Erin Tichenor. 2022. "'We're Here to Help': Criminal Justice Collaboration Among Social Service Providers across the Urban-Rural Continuum." Social Service Review.
Simes, Jessica T. and Jaquelyn L. Jahn. 2022. "The Consequences of Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act for Police Arrests." PLoS ONE.
Jahn*, Jaquelyn L., Jessica T. Simes*, Tori L. Cowger, and Brigette A. Davis. 2022. "Racial Disparities in Neighborhood Arrest Rates During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Journal of Urban Health.
*Shared first co-authorship
Pullen-Blasnik, Hannah, Jessica T. Simes, and Bruce Western. 2021. "The Population Prevalence of Solitary Confinement." Science Advances. (Lead article)
Ben-Menachem, Jonathan, Samuel Donahue, Jessica T. Simes, and Bruce Western. “Solitary Confinement, Parole, and Criminalization.”
Simes, Jessica T. "Persistence and Change in the Spatial Context of Mass Incarceration."
Simes, Jessica T., Ronald Day, and Louisa Holaday. "Legacies of Mass Incarceration in Place."