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LISA L. MILLER
October 2024
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Department of Political Science miller[at]polisci.rutgers.edu
Rutgers University www.lisalmiller.com
89 George Street 848.932.9382
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1411
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Professor, Department of Political Science
Rutgers University, 2016-present.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Rutgers University, 2008-2016.
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Rutgers University, 2004-2008.
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Crime, Law and Justice, 2000-2004
Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, 2000-2004
Pennsylvania State University, 2000-2004.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Politics and Government
University of Puget Sound, 1999-2000.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Political Science, University of Washington, 1999
M.A. University of Washington, 1994
B.A. Political and Social Thought, University of Virginia, 1987
FELLOWSHIPS
Senior Research Fellow, Niskanen Center, 2023-25
John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Politics, Rothermere American Institute
University of Oxford, 2015-16.
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Law and Public Affairs
Princeton University, 2012-2013.
Visiting Fellow, All Souls College
University of Oxford, 2011-2012.
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
Faculty Director, Lloyd Gardner Fellowship in Leadership and Social Policy, Rutgers University, 2017-2022.
Acting Graduate Program Director, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University,
Spring 2019, Spring 2017.
Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies, Program in Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, Spring 2015.
Program Director, Law, Justice and Society Fellowship, Rutgers University, 2009-2012.
Acting Director, Center for Race and Ethnicity, Rutgers University, 2009-2010.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent Crime and Democratic Politics.
2016. New York: Oxford University Press.
The Perils of Federalism: Race, Poverty and the Politics of Crime Control.
2008. New York: Oxford University Press.
The Politics of Community Crime Prevention: Implementing Weed and Seed in Seattle.
2001. Burlington, VT: Dartmouth/Ashgate Press. Law, Justice and Power Series.
Edited volumes
Theoretical Criminology: Special Issue on the State of the State 41(4). November 2017. With Vanessa Barker, co-editor.
Journal articles
Jones, Rebekah and Lisa L. Miller. Forthcoming. “Lethal Violence and the Racialized Failure of the American State.” Perspectives on Politics.
Miller, Lisa L. 2023. “Checks and Balances, Veto Points, and Constitutional Folk Wisdom.” Political Research Quarterly. 76(4): 1604-1618.
Johnson, Richard and Lisa L. Miller. 2022. “The Conservative Policy Bias of Senate Malapportionment.” PS: Political Science and Politics 56(1): 10-17.
Miller, Lisa L. 2021. “Racialized Anti-Statism and the Failure of the American State.” The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics 6(1): 120-143.
Miller, Lisa L. 2018. “The Use of Case Studies in Law and Social Science.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 14: 381-396. Translated into Burmese.
Threadcraft, Shatema and Lisa L. Miller. 2017. “Black Women, Victimization, and the Limits of the Liberal State.” Theoretical Criminology: Special Issue 41(4): 478-493.
Miller, Lisa L. 2015. “What’s Violence Got to Do With It? Inequality, punishment and state failure in American politics.” Punishment and Society 17(2): 184-210.
Miller, Lisa L. 2014. “Racialized State Failure and the Violent Death of Michael Brown.” Theory and Event 17(3), Supplement.
Miller, Lisa L. 2013. “Power to the People: Violent Victimization, Inequality and Democratic Politics.” Theoretical Criminology 17(3): 283-313.
Miller, Lisa L. 2011. “The Local and the Legal: American federalism and its implications for the carceral state.” Criminology and Public Policy: Mass Incarceration 10(3): 725-732.
Miller, Lisa L. 2010. “The Invisible Black Victim: How American Federalism Perpetuates Racial Inequality in Criminal Justice.” Law and Society Review 44 (3/4): 805-842.
Miller, Lisa L. 2007. “The Representational Biases of Federalism: scope and bias in the political process, revisited.” Perspectives on Politics 5:2: 305-321.
Miller, Lisa L. and James Eisenstein. 2005. “The Federal/state criminal prosecution nexus: a case study in cooperation and discretion.” Law and Social Inquiry 30 (2): 239-268.
Miller, Lisa L. 2005. “Re-thinking bureaucrats in the policy process: criminal justice agents and the national crime agenda.” Policy Studies Journal 32 (4): 569-588.
Silver, Eric and Lisa L. Miller. 2004. “Sources of informal social control in Chicago neighborhoods.” Criminology 42: 551-583.
Silver, Eric and Lisa L. Miller. 2002. “A Cautionary note on the use of actuarial risk assessments tools for social control,” Crime and Delinquency 48: 138-161.
Miller, Lisa L. 2001. “Looking for postmodernism in all the wrong places: Implementing a new penology.” British Journal of Criminology 41: 168-184.
Miller, Lisa L. “Taking it to the streets: reframing crime prevention through race and community.” 2000. Studies in Law, Politics and Society 20, 207-238.
Berliner, Lucy, Donna Schram, Lisa L. Miller, and Cheryl Darling Milloy. 1995. “A Sentencing Alternative for Sex Offenders: A Study of Decision-Making and Recidivism.” Journal of Interpersonal Violence 10(4):487-502.
Book chapters
Miller, Lisa L. Forthcoming. “Misleading Constitutional Narratives.” In Joel D. Aberbach, Bruce E. Cain, Desmond King, and Gillian Peele, editors. The Changing Character of the American Right Volume II. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Miller, Lisa L. 2020. “American Exceptionalism or Exceptionalism of the Americas? The Politics of Lethal Violence, Punishment and Inequality.” In Lacey, Nicola, David Soskice, Leonidas K. Cheliotis, Sappho Xenakis, eds., Tracing the Relationship Between Inequality, Crime and Punishment: Space, Time, and Politics. London: The British Academy, Oxford University Press.
Miller, Lisa L. 2018. “Making the State Pay: Violence and the Politicization of Crime in Comparative Perspective.” In Kevin Reitz (ed), American Exceptionalism in Imprisonment. New York: Oxford University Press.
Miller, Lisa L. 2016. “Violent crime, constitutional frameworks, and mass publics.” In Dzur, Albert, Ian Loader and Richard Sparks eds. Democratic Theory and Mass Incarceration. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Miller, Lisa L. 2016. “Crime, Punishment and Urban Governance in Contemporary American Politics.” In Amy Bridges and Michael Fortner, eds. Urban Citizenship and American Democracy: The Historical and Institutional Roots of Local Politics and Policy. SUNY Press.
Miller, Lisa L. and William T. Lyons. 2012. “Putting Politics in its Place: Reflections on Political Criminology, Immigration and Crime.” In Austin D. Sarat, ed. The Legacy of Stuart Scheingold, Special Issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society 59: 123-154.
Law review articles and review essays
Miller, Lisa L. 2022. “Up from Federalism: Danielle Allen’s Democracy in the Time of Corona Virus and Jacob Grumbach’s Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics, Boston Review, July 2022. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/up-from-federalism/
Miller, Lisa L. 2019. “Amending Constitutional Myths.” 67 Drake University Law Review 101-127.
Miller, Lisa L. 2018. “Review symposium: The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent Crime and Democratic Politics.” With Insa Koch, Tim Newburn, Richard Sparks, and Vanessa Barker (coordinator), and a response by Miller. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice 57(1): 124-134.
Miller, Lisa L. 2016. “Response to Paul Hirschfield.” Sociological Forum 31(1).
Miller, Lisa L. 2014. “The (Dys)Functions of American Federalism.” Tulsa Law Review 49(2): 267-278.
Miller, Lisa L. and Kevin Wozniak. 2013. “Criminology and Political Science.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology. Ed. Richard Wright. New York: Oxford University Press.
Book reviews
The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice: Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacy of the 1980s Radical Right. Stephen Farrall and Emily Gray. Routledge, 2024.
Reviewed in The British Journal of Criminology. Forthcoming.
The Roots of Violence Crime in America: From the Gilded Age Through the Great Depression. Barry Latzer. Louisiana State University Press, 2021.
Reviewed in Political Science Quarterly 137(4): 801-803, 2022.
Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration. Rachel Elise Barkow. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019.
Reviewed in Current History 118(811): 325-327, 2019.
Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State. Vanessa Barker. New York: Routledge 2018.
Reviewed in Punishment and Society 23(1): 139-142, 2020
Prison Break: Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration. David Dagan and Steve Teles. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Reviewed in the Law and Politics Electronic Book Review, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. Vol. 27(4): 67-72, 2017.
Solitary Confinement: Social Death and its Afterlives. Lisa Guenther. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Reviewed in Perspectives on Politics 13(4): 1126-1128, 2015.
The Politics of Imprisonment: How the Democratic Process Shapes the Way America Punishes Offenders. Vanessa Barker. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Reviewed in the Law and Politics Electronic Book Review, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. Vol. 21 No. 4, April, 2011.
Race to Injustice: Lessons Learned from the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case. Michael L. Seigel (ed). Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2009.
Reviewed in the Law and Politics Electronic Book Review, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, Vol. 19, No. 8, August 2009.
Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It. Mindy Thompson Fullilove. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.
Reviewed in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 30 (5), 985-989. October 2005.
Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration. Edited by Mary Pattillo, David Weiman and Bruce Western. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004.
Reviewed in the Journal of Politics 67 (3), 943-44. August 2005.
Deviant Knowledge: Criminology, Politics and Public Policy by Reese Walters. 2003. Portland, OR: Willan Publishing.
Reviewed in the Law and Politics Electronic Book Review, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, Vol. 14, No. 11, November 2004.
Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Incarceration by Marc Mauer and Meda Chesney-Lind (Editors). 2002. New York: The New Press.
Reviewed in Punishment and Society 6 (4), 458-161. October 2004.
Crime Control and Community: The New Politics of Public Safety by Gordon Hughes and Adam Edwards (Editors). 2002.
Reviewed in the Law and Politics Electronic Book Review, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, Vol. 12, No. 11, November 2002.
RECENT INVITED LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS
Discussant, Workshop on Democratic Backsliding (in honor of Robert Kaufman’s retirement), “Threats to Democracy in Western Europe,” April 12, 2024.
Presenter, “Defining the Problem,” with Roseanna Ander and Michael Javen Fortner, Niskanen Center Convening: Reducing the Social Costs of Crime and Punishment, Charleston, South Carolina, July 8-9, 2024.
Presenter, “What is American Federalism Good For?” The Future of American Federalism, organized by Publius: The Journal of American Federalism. Les Aspin Center for Government, Washington, DC, July 27-28, 2004.
Co-organizer, sponsor, discussant, Political Science Perspectives on Crime and Punishment, 2023, Rutgers University, October 27, 2023.
“Exceptionalism of the Americas in lethal violence,” Rethinking Political Development in the Americas, Johns Hopkins University, May 18-19, 2023.
Discussant, book workshop on Protect or Repair, Desmond King and Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania, March 3, 2023.
“The Politics of Lethal Violence and Punishment,” Workshop on the Comparative Historical Study of Crime and Punishment, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, December 12, 2022.
“American Exceptionalism or Exceptionalism of the Americas: The Politics of Lethal Violence Punishment, and Inequality.” Inaugural presentation of the Workshop Series on The Social Analysis of Penality Across Borders, Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research and the Crime and Society Program of the National University of Litoral (Argentina), September 28, 2021 (virtual).
“Constitutional folk wisdom and the Anti-Democratic Politics of the American Right.” Oxford-Stanford Conference on the Changing Character of the American Right, September 21-23, 2021 [virtual].
“States’ Rights, Limited Government, and the Constitutional Refuge of American Right-Wing Politics.” Oxford Stanford Conference on The Changing Character of the American Right, October 19, 2020. [virtual]
Discussant, Punishment in Global Peripheries: Contemporary Changes and Historical Continuities. Centre for Criminology, Oxford University, June 23-25, 2021 [virtual]
“Coming Apart at the (Already Frayed) Seams: Crime, Criminal Justice, and the Failure of the American State.” Vanderbilt University Law School, Criminal Justice Roundtable, November 6-7, 2020 [virtual]
“The Politics of Crime and Punishment: Three lectures.” Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina. July 30-Aug 1, 2019.
“The Tragedy of American Politics,” Symposium: Is it time to amend the Constitution? Drake University Law School, Des Moines, Iowa, April 13, 2019.
“Constitutional Myths,” Rutgers University Law School, Camden, NJ, March 25, 2019.
“Constitutional Myths and Political Power,” Temple University Law School, Philadelphia, November 8th, 2018.
“Racial Inequality and Failed States.” James Weldon Johnson Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, Oct 1, 2018.
“The Myth of Mob Rule,” Drexel University School of Law, Philadelphia, September 28, 2018.
Author Meets Reader Session for The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent Crime and Democratic Politics.
Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, August 30-Sept 1, 2018, Boston. Readers: Mark Graber, Heather Schoenfeld, David Dagan, Amy Lerman.
Annual Meetings of the American Association of Criminology, November 15-18, 2017, Philadelphia. Readers: Peter Enns, Frank Baumgartner, Peter Ramsey, convened by Steve Farrall.
Annual Meetings of the Law and Society Association, June 20-23, 2017, Mexico City. Readers: Chuck Epp, Megan Ming Francis, Insa Koch, Naomi Murakawa, Tim Newburn, Richard Sparks, convened by Vanessa Barker.
“What’s Violence got to do with it? Inequality, Punishment, and Racialized State Failure in U.S. Politics.” Villanova Law School, Philadelphia, January 31, 2018.
“Lethal Violence as Political Outcome: Racialized disadvantage, inequality, and the politics of state-building.” Tracing the Relationship between Crime, Inequality, and Punishment. British Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, London, December 7-8, 2017.
“The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent crime and democratic politics.” New York University, Department of Sociology, New York, March 10, 2017
“Crime, Punishment, and the Racialized Failure of the American State.” Prison Justice Initiative, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., November 30, 2016
“Crime, Punishment, and the Racialized Failure of the American State.” Workshop on American Punishment, New York University, New York, October 27-28, 2016
“The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent crime and democratic politics.” Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley, CA, October 17, 2016
“The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent crime and democratic politics.” Cornell University, Department of Political Science, Ithaca, NY, September 30, 2016
COMMENTARY/MEDIA
“Abolishing the Police Won’t Solve Violent Crime but Neither Will the Carceral State,” Rising, The Hill, December 27, 2022.
“Taking Violence and Government Seriously,” Niskanen Center, December 6, 2022. https://www.niskanencenter.org/taking-violence-and-government-seriously/
“Heat: What’s rising crime doing to American politics?” July 17, 2022 (interview by Michael Bluhm) The Signal. https://www.thesgnl.com/2022/06/violent-crime-midterm-elections-us-lisa-miller/
“Fear Factor: How is rising violence affecting U.S. politics?” An interview with Lisa L. Miller, February 11, 2022 (by Graham Vyse), The Signal. https://www.thesgnl.com/2022/02/violent-crime-politics-us-lisa-miller/
“Murders Spiked in 2020: How will that change the politics of crime?” A FiveThirtyEight Chat, October 6, 2021. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/murders-spiked-in-2020-how-will-that-change-the-politics-of-crime/
“Homicide Impunity, Human Rights, and State Failure.” Niskanen Center Webinar, September 24, 2021. With Wesley Lowery, Roxanna Altholz, Jeff Asher, and Michael Javen Fortner. https://www.niskanencenter.org/webinar-homicide-impunity-human-rights-and-state-failure/
“The U.S. Presidential Election of 2020: Consequences and Prospects.” Mile End Institute Podcast, January 20, 2021. Queen Mary College, University of London. https://anchor.fm/mile-end-institute/episodes/The-US-Presidential-Election-of-2020-Consequences-and-Prospects-ep6aq6
“Race, Violence, and the Failed American State.” Scarlet Speakers in the Heart of your Home, Rutgers University on-line lecture, June 30, 2020. https://sas.rutgers.edu/news-a-events/events/events/past-events/3278-scarlet-speakers-in-the-heart-of-your-home-with-lisa-miller
“Federalism is Unlikely to Save Progressive Politics,” Law and Political Economy blog, July 11, 2019. https://lpeblog.org/2019/07/11/federalism-is-unlikely-to-save-progressive-politics/
“Mob Rule,” Roundtable with David Foster, TRT World TV, January 15, 2019.
“Calling a Fascist a Fascist,” Lawyers, Guns and Money, August 17, 2017. http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/08/calling-fascist-fascist
“It’s Time to Talk about Power, Part II” March 1, 2017. OUPBlog, Oxford University Press.
https://blog.oup.com/2017/03/healthcare-reform-obamacare-checks-balances
“It’s Time to Talk about Power, Part I,” February 17, 2017. OUPBlog, Oxford University Press.
https://blog.oup.com/2017/02/electoral-college-checks-balances
“Black Activists Don’t Ignore Crime,” Op-Ed, New York Times Op-Ed, August 6, 2016.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/opinion/black-activists-dont-ignore-crime.html?_r=0
“Gun Control Failed in the senate. But it wasn’t a fair vote.” The Guardian Opinion. June 21, 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/21/gun-control-reforms-senate-vote-not-fair-republican-congress
“Tyranny of the Losers and the Politics of Gun Control.” Lawyers, Guns and Money. June 16, 2016. http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2016/06/tyranny-of-the-losers-and-the-politics-of-gun-control
“Race, violence and the failure of the American state.” Discover Society, Issue 33, June 1, 2016.
http://discoversociety.org/2016/06/01/race-violence-and-the-failure-of-the-american-state/
“Crime and Punishment in Post-War Britain: “Mob Rule” as Democratic Corrective.” London School of Economics, British Politics and Policy Blog, January 21, 2016.
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/crime-and-punishment-in-post-war-britain-mob-rule-as-democratic-corrective/
“Reforming police and prisons will not save us,” Rethinking Ferguson Workshop Blog posts, Balkinzation, August 2015.
http://balkin.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/reforming-police-and-prisons-will-not.html
“Violence and the Racialized Failure of the American State.” Guest Post, Lawyers, Guns and Money, December 14, 2014.
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2014/12/violence-racialized-failure-american-state-guest-post-lisa-m-miller
“(Mis)Understanding American Politics: Constitutions, Collective Action, Competition, Quiescence,” Policy Brief, Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, August 2012. https://www.fljs.org/uploads/documents/Miller-federalism.pdf
“Mass Incarceration.” With Todd Clear, Ebru TV, December 21st, 2010.
“Opposition or Coalition? Courts and the Political Process in Times of Crisis.” Policy Brief. Foundation for Law, Justice and Society. Oxford University. November 2008. http://www.fljs.org/section.aspx?id=2875
“Too Little Too Late: The Supreme Court as a Check on Executive Power.” Commentary: Foreign Policy in Focus. February 17, 2006. http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3117
Forum: “What are the opportunities and difficulties in using qualitative data to study the Federal criminal justice system?” 2003. Law and Courts, Newsletter of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. With James Eisenstein, Matthew Holden, Jr., Donald K. Stern, Todd Lochner, Daniel Krislov, Richard T. Boylan, Andrew B. Whitford, and Daniel Richman.
LISA L. MILLER
October 2024
______________________________________________________________________________
Department of Political Science miller[at]polisci.rutgers.edu
Rutgers University www.lisalmiller.com
89 George Street 848.932.9382
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1411
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Professor, Department of Political Science
Rutgers University, 2016-present.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Rutgers University, 2008-2016.
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Rutgers University, 2004-2008.
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Crime, Law and Justice, 2000-2004
Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, 2000-2004
Pennsylvania State University, 2000-2004.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Politics and Government
University of Puget Sound, 1999-2000.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Political Science, University of Washington, 1999
M.A. University of Washington, 1994
B.A. Political and Social Thought, University of Virginia, 1987
FELLOWSHIPS
Senior Research Fellow, Niskanen Center, 2023-25
John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Politics, Rothermere American Institute
University of Oxford, 2015-16.
Visiting Research Scholar, Program in Law and Public Affairs
Princeton University, 2012-2013.
Visiting Fellow, All Souls College
University of Oxford, 2011-2012.
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
Faculty Director, Lloyd Gardner Fellowship in Leadership and Social Policy, Rutgers University, 2017-2022.
Acting Graduate Program Director, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University,
Spring 2019, Spring 2017.
Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies, Program in Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, Spring 2015.
Program Director, Law, Justice and Society Fellowship, Rutgers University, 2009-2012.
Acting Director, Center for Race and Ethnicity, Rutgers University, 2009-2010.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent Crime and Democratic Politics.
2016. New York: Oxford University Press.
The Perils of Federalism: Race, Poverty and the Politics of Crime Control.
2008. New York: Oxford University Press.
The Politics of Community Crime Prevention: Implementing Weed and Seed in Seattle.
2001. Burlington, VT: Dartmouth/Ashgate Press. Law, Justice and Power Series.
Edited volumes
Theoretical Criminology: Special Issue on the State of the State 41(4). November 2017. With Vanessa Barker, co-editor.
Journal articles
Jones, Rebekah and Lisa L. Miller. Forthcoming. “Lethal Violence and the Racialized Failure of the American State.” Perspectives on Politics.
Miller, Lisa L. 2023. “Checks and Balances, Veto Points, and Constitutional Folk Wisdom.” Political Research Quarterly. 76(4): 1604-1618.
Johnson, Richard and Lisa L. Miller. 2022. “The Conservative Policy Bias of Senate Malapportionment.” PS: Political Science and Politics 56(1): 10-17.
Miller, Lisa L. 2021. “Racialized Anti-Statism and the Failure of the American State.” The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics 6(1): 120-143.
Miller, Lisa L. 2018. “The Use of Case Studies in Law and Social Science.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 14: 381-396. Translated into Burmese.
Threadcraft, Shatema and Lisa L. Miller. 2017. “Black Women, Victimization, and the Limits of the Liberal State.” Theoretical Criminology: Special Issue 41(4): 478-493.
Miller, Lisa L. 2015. “What’s Violence Got to Do With It? Inequality, punishment and state failure in American politics.” Punishment and Society 17(2): 184-210.
Miller, Lisa L. 2014. “Racialized State Failure and the Violent Death of Michael Brown.” Theory and Event 17(3), Supplement.
Miller, Lisa L. 2013. “Power to the People: Violent Victimization, Inequality and Democratic Politics.” Theoretical Criminology 17(3): 283-313.
Miller, Lisa L. 2011. “The Local and the Legal: American federalism and its implications for the carceral state.” Criminology and Public Policy: Mass Incarceration 10(3): 725-732.
Miller, Lisa L. 2010. “The Invisible Black Victim: How American Federalism Perpetuates Racial Inequality in Criminal Justice.” Law and Society Review 44 (3/4): 805-842.
Miller, Lisa L. 2007. “The Representational Biases of Federalism: scope and bias in the political process, revisited.” Perspectives on Politics 5:2: 305-321.
Miller, Lisa L. and James Eisenstein. 2005. “The Federal/state criminal prosecution nexus: a case study in cooperation and discretion.” Law and Social Inquiry 30 (2): 239-268.
Miller, Lisa L. 2005. “Re-thinking bureaucrats in the policy process: criminal justice agents and the national crime agenda.” Policy Studies Journal 32 (4): 569-588.
Silver, Eric and Lisa L. Miller. 2004. “Sources of informal social control in Chicago neighborhoods.” Criminology 42: 551-583.
Silver, Eric and Lisa L. Miller. 2002. “A Cautionary note on the use of actuarial risk assessments tools for social control,” Crime and Delinquency 48: 138-161.
Miller, Lisa L. 2001. “Looking for postmodernism in all the wrong places: Implementing a new penology.” British Journal of Criminology 41: 168-184.
Miller, Lisa L. “Taking it to the streets: reframing crime prevention through race and community.” 2000. Studies in Law, Politics and Society 20, 207-238.
Berliner, Lucy, Donna Schram, Lisa L. Miller, and Cheryl Darling Milloy. 1995. “A Sentencing Alternative for Sex Offenders: A Study of Decision-Making and Recidivism.” Journal of Interpersonal Violence 10(4):487-502.
Book chapters
Miller, Lisa L. Forthcoming. “Misleading Constitutional Narratives.” In Joel D. Aberbach, Bruce E. Cain, Desmond King, and Gillian Peele, editors. The Changing Character of the American Right Volume II. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Miller, Lisa L. 2020. “American Exceptionalism or Exceptionalism of the Americas? The Politics of Lethal Violence, Punishment and Inequality.” In Lacey, Nicola, David Soskice, Leonidas K. Cheliotis, Sappho Xenakis, eds., Tracing the Relationship Between Inequality, Crime and Punishment: Space, Time, and Politics. London: The British Academy, Oxford University Press.
Miller, Lisa L. 2018. “Making the State Pay: Violence and the Politicization of Crime in Comparative Perspective.” In Kevin Reitz (ed), American Exceptionalism in Imprisonment. New York: Oxford University Press.
Miller, Lisa L. 2016. “Violent crime, constitutional frameworks, and mass publics.” In Dzur, Albert, Ian Loader and Richard Sparks eds. Democratic Theory and Mass Incarceration. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Miller, Lisa L. 2016. “Crime, Punishment and Urban Governance in Contemporary American Politics.” In Amy Bridges and Michael Fortner, eds. Urban Citizenship and American Democracy: The Historical and Institutional Roots of Local Politics and Policy. SUNY Press.
Miller, Lisa L. and William T. Lyons. 2012. “Putting Politics in its Place: Reflections on Political Criminology, Immigration and Crime.” In Austin D. Sarat, ed. The Legacy of Stuart Scheingold, Special Issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society 59: 123-154.
Law review articles and review essays
Miller, Lisa L. 2022. “Up from Federalism: Danielle Allen’s Democracy in the Time of Corona Virus and Jacob Grumbach’s Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics, Boston Review, July 2022. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/up-from-federalism/
Miller, Lisa L. 2019. “Amending Constitutional Myths.” 67 Drake University Law Review 101-127.
Miller, Lisa L. 2018. “Review symposium: The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent Crime and Democratic Politics.” With Insa Koch, Tim Newburn, Richard Sparks, and Vanessa Barker (coordinator), and a response by Miller. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice 57(1): 124-134.
Miller, Lisa L. 2016. “Response to Paul Hirschfield.” Sociological Forum 31(1).
Miller, Lisa L. 2014. “The (Dys)Functions of American Federalism.” Tulsa Law Review 49(2): 267-278.
Miller, Lisa L. and Kevin Wozniak. 2013. “Criminology and Political Science.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology. Ed. Richard Wright. New York: Oxford University Press.
Book reviews
The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice: Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacy of the 1980s Radical Right. Stephen Farrall and Emily Gray. Routledge, 2024.
Reviewed in The British Journal of Criminology. Forthcoming.
The Roots of Violence Crime in America: From the Gilded Age Through the Great Depression. Barry Latzer. Louisiana State University Press, 2021.
Reviewed in Political Science Quarterly 137(4): 801-803, 2022.
Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration. Rachel Elise Barkow. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019.
Reviewed in Current History 118(811): 325-327, 2019.
Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State. Vanessa Barker. New York: Routledge 2018.
Reviewed in Punishment and Society 23(1): 139-142, 2020
Prison Break: Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration. David Dagan and Steve Teles. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Reviewed in the Law and Politics Electronic Book Review, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. Vol. 27(4): 67-72, 2017.
Solitary Confinement: Social Death and its Afterlives. Lisa Guenther. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Reviewed in Perspectives on Politics 13(4): 1126-1128, 2015.
The Politics of Imprisonment: How the Democratic Process Shapes the Way America Punishes Offenders. Vanessa Barker. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Reviewed in the Law and Politics Electronic Book Review, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. Vol. 21 No. 4, April, 2011.
Race to Injustice: Lessons Learned from the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case. Michael L. Seigel (ed). Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2009.
Reviewed in the Law and Politics Electronic Book Review, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, Vol. 19, No. 8, August 2009.
Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It. Mindy Thompson Fullilove. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.
Reviewed in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 30 (5), 985-989. October 2005.
Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration. Edited by Mary Pattillo, David Weiman and Bruce Western. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004.
Reviewed in the Journal of Politics 67 (3), 943-44. August 2005.
Deviant Knowledge: Criminology, Politics and Public Policy by Reese Walters. 2003. Portland, OR: Willan Publishing.
Reviewed in the Law and Politics Electronic Book Review, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, Vol. 14, No. 11, November 2004.
Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Incarceration by Marc Mauer and Meda Chesney-Lind (Editors). 2002. New York: The New Press.
Reviewed in Punishment and Society 6 (4), 458-161. October 2004.
Crime Control and Community: The New Politics of Public Safety by Gordon Hughes and Adam Edwards (Editors). 2002.
Reviewed in the Law and Politics Electronic Book Review, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, Vol. 12, No. 11, November 2002.
RECENT INVITED LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS
Discussant, Workshop on Democratic Backsliding (in honor of Robert Kaufman’s retirement), “Threats to Democracy in Western Europe,” April 12, 2024.
Presenter, “Defining the Problem,” with Roseanna Ander and Michael Javen Fortner, Niskanen Center Convening: Reducing the Social Costs of Crime and Punishment, Charleston, South Carolina, July 8-9, 2024.
Presenter, “What is American Federalism Good For?” The Future of American Federalism, organized by Publius: The Journal of American Federalism. Les Aspin Center for Government, Washington, DC, July 27-28, 2004.
Co-organizer, sponsor, discussant, Political Science Perspectives on Crime and Punishment, 2023, Rutgers University, October 27, 2023.
“Exceptionalism of the Americas in lethal violence,” Rethinking Political Development in the Americas, Johns Hopkins University, May 18-19, 2023.
Discussant, book workshop on Protect or Repair, Desmond King and Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania, March 3, 2023.
“The Politics of Lethal Violence and Punishment,” Workshop on the Comparative Historical Study of Crime and Punishment, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, December 12, 2022.
“American Exceptionalism or Exceptionalism of the Americas: The Politics of Lethal Violence Punishment, and Inequality.” Inaugural presentation of the Workshop Series on The Social Analysis of Penality Across Borders, Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research and the Crime and Society Program of the National University of Litoral (Argentina), September 28, 2021 (virtual).
“Constitutional folk wisdom and the Anti-Democratic Politics of the American Right.” Oxford-Stanford Conference on the Changing Character of the American Right, September 21-23, 2021 [virtual].
“States’ Rights, Limited Government, and the Constitutional Refuge of American Right-Wing Politics.” Oxford Stanford Conference on The Changing Character of the American Right, October 19, 2020. [virtual]
Discussant, Punishment in Global Peripheries: Contemporary Changes and Historical Continuities. Centre for Criminology, Oxford University, June 23-25, 2021 [virtual]
“Coming Apart at the (Already Frayed) Seams: Crime, Criminal Justice, and the Failure of the American State.” Vanderbilt University Law School, Criminal Justice Roundtable, November 6-7, 2020 [virtual]
“The Politics of Crime and Punishment: Three lectures.” Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina. July 30-Aug 1, 2019.
“The Tragedy of American Politics,” Symposium: Is it time to amend the Constitution? Drake University Law School, Des Moines, Iowa, April 13, 2019.
“Constitutional Myths,” Rutgers University Law School, Camden, NJ, March 25, 2019.
“Constitutional Myths and Political Power,” Temple University Law School, Philadelphia, November 8th, 2018.
“Racial Inequality and Failed States.” James Weldon Johnson Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, Oct 1, 2018.
“The Myth of Mob Rule,” Drexel University School of Law, Philadelphia, September 28, 2018.
Author Meets Reader Session for The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent Crime and Democratic Politics.
Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, August 30-Sept 1, 2018, Boston. Readers: Mark Graber, Heather Schoenfeld, David Dagan, Amy Lerman.
Annual Meetings of the American Association of Criminology, November 15-18, 2017, Philadelphia. Readers: Peter Enns, Frank Baumgartner, Peter Ramsey, convened by Steve Farrall.
Annual Meetings of the Law and Society Association, June 20-23, 2017, Mexico City. Readers: Chuck Epp, Megan Ming Francis, Insa Koch, Naomi Murakawa, Tim Newburn, Richard Sparks, convened by Vanessa Barker.
“What’s Violence got to do with it? Inequality, Punishment, and Racialized State Failure in U.S. Politics.” Villanova Law School, Philadelphia, January 31, 2018.
“Lethal Violence as Political Outcome: Racialized disadvantage, inequality, and the politics of state-building.” Tracing the Relationship between Crime, Inequality, and Punishment. British Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, London, December 7-8, 2017.
“The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent crime and democratic politics.” New York University, Department of Sociology, New York, March 10, 2017
“Crime, Punishment, and the Racialized Failure of the American State.” Prison Justice Initiative, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., November 30, 2016
“Crime, Punishment, and the Racialized Failure of the American State.” Workshop on American Punishment, New York University, New York, October 27-28, 2016
“The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent crime and democratic politics.” Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley, CA, October 17, 2016
“The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent crime and democratic politics.” Cornell University, Department of Political Science, Ithaca, NY, September 30, 2016
COMMENTARY/MEDIA
“Abolishing the Police Won’t Solve Violent Crime but Neither Will the Carceral State,” Rising, The Hill, December 27, 2022.
“Taking Violence and Government Seriously,” Niskanen Center, December 6, 2022. https://www.niskanencenter.org/taking-violence-and-government-seriously/
“Heat: What’s rising crime doing to American politics?” July 17, 2022 (interview by Michael Bluhm) The Signal. https://www.thesgnl.com/2022/06/violent-crime-midterm-elections-us-lisa-miller/
“Fear Factor: How is rising violence affecting U.S. politics?” An interview with Lisa L. Miller, February 11, 2022 (by Graham Vyse), The Signal. https://www.thesgnl.com/2022/02/violent-crime-politics-us-lisa-miller/
“Murders Spiked in 2020: How will that change the politics of crime?” A FiveThirtyEight Chat, October 6, 2021. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/murders-spiked-in-2020-how-will-that-change-the-politics-of-crime/
“Homicide Impunity, Human Rights, and State Failure.” Niskanen Center Webinar, September 24, 2021. With Wesley Lowery, Roxanna Altholz, Jeff Asher, and Michael Javen Fortner. https://www.niskanencenter.org/webinar-homicide-impunity-human-rights-and-state-failure/
“The U.S. Presidential Election of 2020: Consequences and Prospects.” Mile End Institute Podcast, January 20, 2021. Queen Mary College, University of London. https://anchor.fm/mile-end-institute/episodes/The-US-Presidential-Election-of-2020-Consequences-and-Prospects-ep6aq6
“Race, Violence, and the Failed American State.” Scarlet Speakers in the Heart of your Home, Rutgers University on-line lecture, June 30, 2020. https://sas.rutgers.edu/news-a-events/events/events/past-events/3278-scarlet-speakers-in-the-heart-of-your-home-with-lisa-miller
“Federalism is Unlikely to Save Progressive Politics,” Law and Political Economy blog, July 11, 2019. https://lpeblog.org/2019/07/11/federalism-is-unlikely-to-save-progressive-politics/
“Mob Rule,” Roundtable with David Foster, TRT World TV, January 15, 2019.
“Calling a Fascist a Fascist,” Lawyers, Guns and Money, August 17, 2017. http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/08/calling-fascist-fascist
“It’s Time to Talk about Power, Part II” March 1, 2017. OUPBlog, Oxford University Press.
https://blog.oup.com/2017/03/healthcare-reform-obamacare-checks-balances
“It’s Time to Talk about Power, Part I,” February 17, 2017. OUPBlog, Oxford University Press.
https://blog.oup.com/2017/02/electoral-college-checks-balances
“Black Activists Don’t Ignore Crime,” Op-Ed, New York Times Op-Ed, August 6, 2016.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/opinion/black-activists-dont-ignore-crime.html?_r=0
“Gun Control Failed in the senate. But it wasn’t a fair vote.” The Guardian Opinion. June 21, 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/21/gun-control-reforms-senate-vote-not-fair-republican-congress
“Tyranny of the Losers and the Politics of Gun Control.” Lawyers, Guns and Money. June 16, 2016. http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2016/06/tyranny-of-the-losers-and-the-politics-of-gun-control
“Race, violence and the failure of the American state.” Discover Society, Issue 33, June 1, 2016.
http://discoversociety.org/2016/06/01/race-violence-and-the-failure-of-the-american-state/
“Crime and Punishment in Post-War Britain: “Mob Rule” as Democratic Corrective.” London School of Economics, British Politics and Policy Blog, January 21, 2016.
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/crime-and-punishment-in-post-war-britain-mob-rule-as-democratic-corrective/
“Reforming police and prisons will not save us,” Rethinking Ferguson Workshop Blog posts, Balkinzation, August 2015.
http://balkin.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/reforming-police-and-prisons-will-not.html
“Violence and the Racialized Failure of the American State.” Guest Post, Lawyers, Guns and Money, December 14, 2014.
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2014/12/violence-racialized-failure-american-state-guest-post-lisa-m-miller
“(Mis)Understanding American Politics: Constitutions, Collective Action, Competition, Quiescence,” Policy Brief, Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, August 2012. https://www.fljs.org/uploads/documents/Miller-federalism.pdf
“Mass Incarceration.” With Todd Clear, Ebru TV, December 21st, 2010.
“Opposition or Coalition? Courts and the Political Process in Times of Crisis.” Policy Brief. Foundation for Law, Justice and Society. Oxford University. November 2008. http://www.fljs.org/section.aspx?id=2875
“Too Little Too Late: The Supreme Court as a Check on Executive Power.” Commentary: Foreign Policy in Focus. February 17, 2006. http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3117
Forum: “What are the opportunities and difficulties in using qualitative data to study the Federal criminal justice system?” 2003. Law and Courts, Newsletter of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. With James Eisenstein, Matthew Holden, Jr., Donald K. Stern, Todd Lochner, Daniel Krislov, Richard T. Boylan, Andrew B. Whitford, and Daniel Richman.
