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Associate Professor Michael L. Walker received his B.A. in economics from the University of California-Riverside where he also completed his Ph.D. in sociology in 2014. Michael’s broad research interests include social control, stratification, and inequality, which he pursues through studies of criminal justice generally, and jails specifically.
Michael L. Walker is the author of the award winning book, Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail. He is a sociologist and expert in the fields of punishment, jails, race relations, and inequality.
Professor Michael L. Walker's broad research concerns stratification, social control, punishment, and social psychology, which he translates into studies of race relations, carceral...
Feb 18, 2022 · Prison is bad. Jail’s worse. That contention, probably irrefutable, is at the center of Michael Walker’s potent book. Walker, now assistant professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, adopts an ambitious approach to proving his thesis.
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Feb 25, 2022 · Indefinite is an ethnographic study of a California county jail that reflects on what it means to do jail time and what it does to men. Michael L. Walker spent several extended spells in jail, having been arrested while trying to pay parking tickets in graduate school.
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Michael L. Walker is a sociologist and author of the award winning book, Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail. Indefinite is a groundbreaking ethnography of a Southern California county jail system with fieldwork Prof. Walker conducted while incarcerated.
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Curriculum Vitae. Education. Ph.D., University of California-Riverside, Sociology. Advisor: Ellen Reese, 2014. M.A., University of California-Riverside, Sociology, 2011. B.A., University of California-Riverside, Economics, 2006. Positions. Beverly and Richard Fink Professor of Liberal Arts.
Feb 24, 2022 · Please join Professor Michael L. Walker (University of Minnesota, Department of Sociology) for a Virtual Book Launch on Thursday, February 24 at 2:00 pm (CST) celebrating his impressive debut from Oxford University Press, Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail.
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Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail. Michael L. Walker. Oxford University Press, 2022 - Social Science - 267 pages. "Indefinite is the first major ethnographic study of American jails since the advent...
