Published Articles

Sykes, Bryan L., Meghan Ballard, Andrea Giuffre, Rebecca Goodsell, Daniela Kaiser, Vicente Celestino Mata, and Justin Sola. 2022. “Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Public Assistance, Monetary Sanctions, and Financial Double-Dealing in America.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.

Sykes, Bryan L., Meghan Ballard, Daniela Kaiser, Vicente Celestino Mata, J. Amanda Sharry, and Justin Sola. 2022. “Barred: Labor Market Dynamics and Human Capital Development Among People on Probation and Parole.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Other Publications/Writings

Sykes, Bryan L., Meghan Ballard, Daniela Kaiser, Vicente Celestino Mata, J. Amanda Sharry, and Justin Sola. 2022. “Labor Market Structure.” REFORM Alliance White Paper. Justice Lab, Columbia University.

Manuscripts Under or In Preparation for Review

Sykes, Bryan L., Vicente Celestino Mata, Meghan Ballard, Daniela Kaiser, J. Amanda Sharry, and Justin Sola. “Appearing Indigent: Monetary Sanctions, Indigence, and the Problem and Paradox of Excess Poverty in the Criminal Legal System.” in preparation for submission to American Journal of Sociology.

Research in Progress

Mata, Vicente Celestino and Bryan L. Sykes. “Assailing Asylum: Affirmative and Defensive Asylum Grant Rates in the United States, 1980-2023.”