Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Ballard, Meghan M. & Charis E. Kubrin. 2023. Immigrant Victimization: Centering Language in Theory, Data and Method. Societies, 13(4), 101. MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc13040101.
• Ballard, Meghan M. & Nancy R. Rodriguez. 2022. Digital Language Accessibility on Police Websites: Strengthening Effective Communication Between Limited English Proficient Communities and the Police. Policing & Society. DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2022.2071893
• Sykes, Bryan L., Meghan M. Ballard, Andrea Giuffre, Rebecca Goodsell, Daniela Kaiser, Vicente Celestino Mata, and Justin Sola. 2022. Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Financial Double-Dealings, Public Assistance, and the Repayment of Criminal Justice Debt. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 8(1), 148-178. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.1.07.
• Sykes, Bryan L., Meghan M. Ballard, Daniela Kaiser, Vicente Celestino Mata, Joanne Amanda Sharry, and Justin Sola. 2022. Barred: Labor Market Dynamics and Human Capital Development Among People on Probation and Parole. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 701(1), DOI: 10.1177/00027162221099291.

Law Review Publications

• Sykes, Bryan L. & Meghan M. Ballard. 2024. “Case Study: Race, the Criminal Legal System, & Stategraft: The California Racial Justice Act (2020).” Wisconsin Law Review Forward. https://wlr.law.wisc.edu/race-the-criminal-legal-system-and-stategraft-the-california-racial-justice-act-2020/.

Policy Briefs & Reports

• Sykes, Bryan L., & Meghan M. Ballard. 2023. Redressing Racial and Ethnic Wrongs in the Criminal Legal System [policy brief]. Contexts, 22(3), 74-75. https://doi.org/10.1177/15365042231192505
• Rodriguez, Nancy R., & Meghan M. Ballard. 2023. Establishing, Implementing, and Maintaining a Language Access Program [policy brief]. MacArthur Foundation, Safety and Justice Challenge. https://safetyandjusticechallenge.org/resources/establishing-implementing-and-maintaining-a-language-access-program/ .
  • Policy brief cited by:
    • Albarino, Seyma. 2023, June 7. US Criminal Justice Agencies’ Language Access Programs Fall Short of Requirements. Slator. https://slator.com/us-criminal-justice-agencies-language-access-programs-fall-short/.
    • Sanchez, Melissa, & Maryam Jameel. 2023, June 9. Following the Death of an 8-Year-Old on a Wisconsin Dairy Farm, Officials Look to Bridge Law Enforcement Language Gap. ProPublica. https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-dairy-farm-jefferson-rodriguez-settlement-language.
    • White, Rebecca. 2023, July 14. Coalition calls on Spokane County to improve language access. Spokane Public Radio. https://www.spokanepublicradio.org/regional-news/2023-07-14/coalition-calls-on-spokane-county-to-improve-language-access.
• Ballard, Meghan M., Annie Brothers, and Douglas Ligor. 2022. Federal Personnel Vetting Criminal History Records Information (CHRI) Education and Training Materials for State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) Law Enforcement Agency Partners: Privacy Law Overview, Catalogue of Local and State Laws on Collecting CHRI, Review of DCSA’s Legal Authority on Collecting CHRI, RAND Project Report ND-822013, November 1. (Non-public).
• Grisé, Michelle, Meghan M. Ballard, Kirsten M. Keller, and Julia Vidal Verástegui. 2022. “Justice Must Go On: The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Military Court Operations.” Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation. https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA1219-1.html.

Book Reviews & Commentaries

• Ballard, Meghan M. 2022. Review of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice: An International Dilemma (2nd ed.) by Akwasi Owusu-Bempah and Shaun Gabbidon, Routledge. Race and Justice. DOI: 10.1177/21533687221101208.
• Ballard, Meghan M. 2018. Effects of linguistic solitary confinement: Conceptual note. BleakHouse Review, 10, 41-42. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c1c01acaa49a143533bcbcf/t/5c1d3e9e03ce6417e309865d/1545420452108/bhr_2018-ilovepdf-compressed+%282%29.pdf
  • Won the 2018 Bleakhouse Literary Award

Podcast Appearances & Other Public Scholarship

• Ballard, Meghan M. [Contributor]. 2023, July 14. “Coalition calls on Spokane County to improve language access.” Spokane Public Radio. https://www.spokanepublicradio.org/regional-news/2023-07-14/coalition-calls-on-spokane-county-to-improve-language-access. 
• Ballard, Meghan M. [Contributor]. 2022, November 8. “Perdido in Translation: Language Access in the Criminal Justice System [English].” Manos Arriba: Unreported Stories of Latinx in the U.S. Carceral System. https://open.spotify.com/show/0OfUaVwrKHT4oC7k0450aL
• Sykes, Bryan L., Meghan M. Ballard, Daniela Kaiser, Vicente Celestino Mata, Joanne Amanda Sharry, and Justin Sola. 2021. “Labor Market Structure.” REFORM Alliance White Paper. Justice Lab, Columbia University. [Editors: Bruce Western (Columbia University) and David Harding (UC- Berkeley)]
• Grasso, Jordan C., and Meghan M. Ballard. 2021, December 14. “Dr. Haynes Does Not Owe Anyone an Apology for his Comments on the Rittenhouse Verdict.” The New University: UCI Official Campus Newspaper. https://newuniversity.org/2021/12/14/dr-haynes-does-not-owe-anyone-an-apology-for-his-comments-on-the-rittenhouse-verdict/

Manuscripts Drafted and/or Under Review

• Echols, Courtney M. & Meghan M. Ballard. In Progress. “Centering care in the archives: Issues, challenges, and benefits of conducting archival research on anti-Blackness and Black resistance in the United States.” Communities of Practice and Ethnographic Fieldwork (book chapter in edited volume). 
• Sykes, Bryan L. & Meghan M. Ballard. In Progress. “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Sex-Related Offense Charging and Sentencing Decisions.” Racism by Context (book chapter in edited volume).
• Ballard, Meghan M. In Progress. Underwriting Injustice: A Social-Legal History of Federal Funding and Racial Discrimination in the Decades Prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (Won the 2022 Calavita Award for Best Second-Year Project)
• Ballard, Meghan M. In Progress. “The Segregated Tax Dollar”: How Black newspapers reported on Title VI of The Civil Rights Act of 1964.