MICHAEL C CAMPBELL
e-mail: Michael.C.Campbell@du.edu
Department of Sociology and Criminology
University of Denver
2000 East Asbury Avenue, MSC 0942
Denver, CO 80208-0942
APPOINTMENTS
2020-Present Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Denver
2018-2020 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Denver
2012-2018 Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri—St. Louis
2009-2012 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University
EDUCATION
2009 Ph.D., Criminology, Law & Society, University of California, Irvine
2000 M.A., History, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1995 B.A., History, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Punishment and Society; Law and Politics; Race, Law and Inequality; Sociology of Law; History
PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed Articles
2020 Williams, Josh and Michael Campbell. “Exploring the Time-Varying Determinates of State Spending on Corrections.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology. First Published 5/20/2020, DOI 10.1177/146247451988795
2019 Campbell, Michael, Heather Schoenfeld and Paige Vaughn*. “Same old song and dance? An analysis of legislative activity in a period of penal reform.” Punishment & Society 22(4): 389-412.
*Graduate student
2019 Campbell, Michael and Matt Vogel. “The Demographic Divide: Population Dynamics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration in the United States.” Punishment & Society 21(1): 47-69.
2018 Campbell, Michael. “Varieties of Mass Incarceration: What we learn from state histories.” Annual Review of Criminology 1(1): 219-231.
2016 Campbell, Michael. “Are all politics local? A case study of local conditions in a period of law and order politics.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 664 (March): 43-61.
2015 Campbell, Michael, Matt Vogel and Joshua Williams*. “Historical Contingencies and the Evolving Importance of Race, Violent Crime and Region in Explaining Mass Incarceration in the United States.” Criminology 53(2): 180-203.
- 2017 American Society of Criminology Outstanding Article Award Winner
*Graduate student
2014 Marieke Liem and Michael Campbell. “Punishment for Homicide in Europe: Research Challenges and A Roadmap for Progress.” International Criminal Justice Review 24(3).
2014 Campbell, Michael C. “The Emergence of Penal Extremism in California: A Dynamic View of Institutional Structures and Political Processes.” Law & Society Review 48(2), June: 377-409.
2013 Campbell, Michael C. and Heather Schoenfeld. "The Transformation of America’s Penal Order: A Historicized Political Sociology of Punishment." American Journal of Sociology 118(5), March: 1375-1423.
-2014 American Sociological Association Sociology of Law Section Distinguished Article Award Winner
-2014 Law and Society Association Article Prize Honorable Mention
-Featured in The Process of Social Research by Royce Singleton, Bruce Straits and Jeffrey Dixon. Oxford University Press (2015).
2012 Campbell, Michael. “Ornery Alligators and Soap on a Rope: Texas Prosecutors and Punishment Reform in the Lone Star State.” Theoretical Criminology 16(3): 289-311.
2012 Campbell, Michael. "Perpetual “Crisis” and the Dysfunctional Politics of Corrections in California." Criminology and Public Policy Vol. 11(2): 411-419.
2011 Campbell, Michael. “Politics, Prisons, and Law Enforcement: An Examination of the Emergence of ‘Law and Order’ Politics in Texas.” Law & Society Review 45(3): 631-666.
2007 Campbell, Michael. “Criminal Disenfranchisement Reform in California: A Deviant Case Study.” Punishment & Society 9(2):177-199.
Book Chapters, Reviews, Bibliographies, Reports and Other Publications
2020 Gonzales, Grace* and Michael Campbell, “The Cycle of Failing Reform: How Mentally-Ill Detainees Continue to Suffer Unconstitutional Wait Times in Colorado,” University of Denver Undergraduate Research Journal, Vol 2.
*Undergraduate Student
2019 Campbell, Michael and Paige Vaughn.* “Historical Trends in Punishment and the Lens of American Federalism.” American Society of Criminology, Division on Corrections and Sentencing Handbook eds. Beth Huebner and Natasha Frost. Taylor and Francis (Routledge): Vol. 3:13-31.
*Graduate Student
2016 Campbell, Michael. Book Review: “Cheap on Crime: Recession Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment.” Contemporary Sociology 45(4):407-409.
2015 Campbell, Michael. “Politics of Crime Control.” Oxford Bibliographies Online.
2013 Cole, Simon and Michael Campbell. "From Subhumans to Superhumans: Evolutionary Hierarchy, Or What Became of Lombroso's Atavistic Criminals?" pgs. 147-170 in The Complete Lombroso: 'Criminal Man' and Historical Revisionism, eds. Paul Knepper & Per J. Ystehede, New York: Routledge Press.
2011 Campbell, Michael. “Punishment for Homicide in Europe.” pgs. 273-284 in Sourcebook of European Homicide Research, eds. William A. Pridemore and Marieke Liem, New York: Springer.
2011 Campbell, Michael. Book Review: Why Punish? How Much?, by Michael Tonry. International Criminal Justice Review. Vol. 21(4):475-8.
2010 Campbell, Michael. “Is the Pendulum Swinging? Crime, Punishment and the Potential for Reform in the USA.” (Invited Essay) Punishment and Society 12(2):1-4.
2009 Campbell, Michael. Book Review: Punishment and Culture, by Phillip Smith. Journal of Contemporary Sociology 38(4):328-329.
2007 Campbell, Michael. Book Review: Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement in America, by Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen, and The Disenfranchisement of Ex-Felons, by Elizabeth A. Hull. Theoretical Criminology 11(1):145-48.
GRANTS AND FUNDING
2019 Koch Foundation. The Changing Tides of Mass Incarceration (with Heather Schoenfeld), $47,000.
2017-present National Science Foundation, Law & Social Science Division, Collaborative Research: The Changing Tides of Mass Incarceration: State Variation in Decarceration Reforms (with co-PI Heather Schoenfeld) $409,302
2017 University of Missouri Research Board. The Changing Tides of Mass Incarceration, $42,968.
2016 Koch Foundation. The Changing Tides of Mass Incarceration (with Heather Schoenfeld), $75,000.
2014 University of Missouri-St. Louis Research Award. Explaining Penal Change in the United States: Assessing the Importance of State Institutions and Race, $8,519.
2007 National Science Foundation, Law & Social Science Division, Dissertation Improvement Grant #0752153. Doctoral Dissertation Research: Explaining Changes In Incarceration In California And Texas $10,162
AWARDS, HONORS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2017 American Society of Criminology, Outstanding Article Award Winner (with Matt Vogel and Josh Williams) for “Historical Contingencies and the Evolving Importance of Race, Violent Crime and Region in Explaining Mass Incarceration in the United States.”
2014 American Sociological Association, Sociology of Law Section Distinguished Article Prize Winner (with Heather Schoenfeld) for "The Transformation of America’s Penal Order: A Historicized Political Sociology of Punishment."
2014 Law and Society Association Article Award Honorable Mention (with Heather Schoenfeld) for "The Transformation of America’s Penal Order: A Historicized Political Sociology of Punishment."
2014 Research Featured in Life of the Law blog. “The Rise of Lock ‘Em Up: How Crime Became a Politics Question.” Posted 6/18/2014
2008 Chancellor’s Club Fellow, University of California, Irvine
2008 Selected for Law & Society Association Graduate Student Workshop, Montreal, Canada
2008 Dean’s Dissertation Writing Fellowship, School of Social Ecology
2007 Criminology, Law & Society Professional Development Fellowship, Spring
2006 Featured in Ph.D. Spotlight Segment of AMICI, the Newsletter for the Sociology of Law section of the American Sociological Association, Fall 2006
2006 Awarded Michelle Smith-Pontell Award as outstanding graduate student for 2005-6 in Department of Criminology, Law & Society, University of California, Irvine
2006 Criminology, Law & Society Writing Fellowship, Spring
2006 Honorary Fellow, Center for Law, Society and Culture, University of California, Irvine
2005 Honored for Outstanding Student Evaluations as Teaching Assistant
WORKS IN PROGRESS
• Campbell, Michael and Heather Schoenfeld. Collaborative Research: The Changing Tides of Mass Incarceration: State Variation in Decarceration Reforms
• Campbell, Michael, Goldie Komaie, Melody Goodman, Cassandra Arroyo Johnson. (Under Review) “Triggering Contact: a qualitative analysis of fatal interactions with police in St. Louis, MO.”
PRESENTATIONS
2018 Presenter “Mapping state penal fields.” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting 11/16
2017 Presenter “State of Reform? A comparative analysis of reform efforts in New Jersey in the 21st Century.” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 6/20
2016 Presenter “Penal Change and Fiscal Crisis: An Analysis of State Level Developments in New Jersey since 2000.” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 6/2
2016 Discussant “Interdisciplinary Explorations of Penal History: The Interactions of Social Control and Race, Gender and Political Regime.” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, 6/3
2015 “Local Context and Penal Change: Exploring How Socioeconomic and Political Forces Shape Local Governing Decisions”, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 11/18
2014 “Examining the Links Between State and Local Crime Politics in California”, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 11/19
2014 “An Historical Examination of Local Conditions and Popular Support for Law and Order Politics”, Realigning California Corrections: Legacies of the Past, the Great Experiment and Trajectories for the Future, Irvine, CA, 10/17
2013 “Variation in Mass Incarceration in the United States: an examination of institutional differences”, Criminology Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 11/20
2013 “Critiquing Probation Reform and the Push for “Evidence-Based Practice”, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 5/31
2012 “Paths Not Taken: An Examination of Crime Politics in California’s Prison Boom Era”, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 11/16
2011 "Retheorizing the Punitive Turn", Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 6/4
2011 “Ornery Alligators and Soap on a Rope: Texas Prosecutors and Punishment Reform in the Lone Star State.” Center for Urban Research and Learning, Loyola University Chicago 2/18
2010 “Prosecutors, Politics, and the Reconstruction of the Penal Order in Texas”, American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA, 11/18
2010 “Punishment and Politics in Texas: An Examination of How Prosecutors Shaped Penal Reform and the Prison Boom”, Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 5/28
2010 “Whose Criminal Justice Policy is it anyway? How structural inequality and political participation helped shape anti-crime policies in Texas”, Northern Illinois University, Law, Crime & Social Justice Brownbag Series
2009 “Agents of Change: Law Enforcement, Prisons, and Politics in Texas” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
2008 “Creating Space: How Texas Lawmakers Expanded Prisons in an Era of Limited Government” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
2007 “Qualitative Research Methods: Exploring State-Level Legal Change” Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting
2006 “Agency, Structure and Context: Explaining Criminal Disenfranchisement Reform in California” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting
2004 “Explaining Changes in Criminal Disenfranchisement Laws: An Examination of Legislative Process” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Courses Taught
Law and Social Control, University of Denver
Law, Politics and Criminal Justice Reforms, University of Denver
Mass Incarceration, University of Denver
Criminology, University of Denver
Sociology of Law, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Law and Social Control, University of Missouri-St. Louis (Graduate)
Law and Society, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Proseminar in Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis (Graduate)
Corrections, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Law, Politics and Society, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Criminal Justice Systems, Northern Illinois University
Punishment and Corrections, Northern Illinois University
Criminal Justice in Society (Graduate), Northern Illinois University
Criminology, Northern Illinois University
Sociology of Law, University of California, Irvine
Law & Politics in U.S. History, Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth Program
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Society of Criminology
Law and Society Association
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2020 Panelist, National Science Foundation, Law and Science Program Panel
2019 Member, American Society of Criminology, Program Committee, Sub-Area Chair, Politics and Justice
2017 Member, Law and Society Association Dissertation Prize Committee
2014 Chair, Law and Society Association Article Prize Committee
2014 Service Panel Participant, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
2014 Panel Organizer, American Criminological Association Annual Meeting
2011 Panel Organizer, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
2010 Panel Organizer, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
2010 Northern Illinois University, Sociology Department Council Member
2010 Northern Illinois University, Sociology Department Faculty Search Committee Member
2008 Panel Organizer, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
2006 School of Social Ecology, Elected Representative, Association of Graduate Students
REVIEWER
American Journal of Sociology
American Sociological Review
Oxford University Press
Law and Society Review
Criminology
Social Problems
Theoretical Criminology
Law & Social Inquiry
Punishment and Society
Sociology Compass
Studies in American Political Development
Journal of Policy History
European Journal of Criminal Policy and Research
Stanford University Press
MEDIA
Quoted in the following media outlets:
The Washington Post
Associated Press
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Rockford Register
BBC Mundo
Research was featured on the legal blog Life of the Law http://www.lifeofthelaw.org/about/