2019
Western, Bruce and Jessica T. Simes. 2019. “Drug Use in the Year After Prison.” Social Science and Medicine 235.
Western, Bruce and Catherine Sirois. 2019. “Racialized Re-Entry: Labor Market Inequality After Incarceration.” Social Forces 97(4):1517-1542.
Western, Bruce. 2019. “Race, Poverty, and Justice Reform.” Du Bois Review 16(1):177-180.
Austin, James F., Vincent Schiraldi, Bruce Western, and Anamika Dwivedi. 2019. “Reconsidering the ‘Violent Offender.’” The Square One Project. The Executive Session on the Future of Justice Policy.
Weihua, An and Bruce Western. 2019. “Social Capital in the Creation of Cultural Capital: Family Structure, Neighborhood Cohesion, and Extracurricular Participation.” Journal of Social Science Research 81:192-208.
Western, Bruce. 2019. “The Challenge of Criminal Justice Reform.” The Square One Project. The Executive Session on the Future of Justice Policy.
2018
Western, Bruce. 2018. Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Introduction - PDF
Desmond, Matthew and Bruce Western. 2018. “Poverty in America: New Directions and Debates.” Annual Review of Sociology 44:305-318.
Western, Bruce and Natalie Smith. 2018. “Formerly Incarcerated Parents and Their Children.” Demography 55(3):823–847.
Western, Bruce. 2018. “Violence, Poverty, Values, and the Will to Punish.” Pp. 129–142 in The Will to Punish by Didier Fassin, edited by Christopher Kurtz. New York: Oxford University Press.
Western, Bruce. 2018. “Poverty Police.” Contemporary Sociology 47(1):22–26.
Western, Bruce. 2018.“Comment: Bayes, Model Uncertainty, and Learning from Data.”Sociological Methodology 48(1):39-43.
2017
Western, Bruce, Anthony A. Braga, and Rhiana Kohl. 2017. “A Longitudinal Survey of Newly-Released Prisoners: Methods and Design of the Boston Reentry Study.” Federal Probation 81:32–40.
Travis, Jeremy and Bruce Western. 2017. “Poverty, Violence, and Black Incarceration.” In Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Prison, edited by Angela J. Davis. New York: Random House.
Western, Bruce. 2017. Review of A Pound of Flesh by Alexes Harris. Theoretical Criminology 21(2):1–6.
2016
Western, Bruce, Anthony Braga, David Hureau, and Catherine Sirois. 2016. “Study Retention as Bias Reduction in a Hard-to-Reach Population.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(20):5477–5485.
Winship, Christopher and Bruce Western. 2016. “Multicollinearity and Model Misspecification.” Sociological Science 3(30):627–649.
Western, Bruce, Deirdre Bloome, Ben Sosnaud, and Laura Tach. 2016. “Trends in Income Insecurity Among U.S. Children, 1984–2010.” Demography 53(2):419–447.
Western, Bruce. 2016. “The Rehabilitation Paradox,”The New Yorker, May 9 (https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-rehabilitation-paradox).
2015
Western, Bruce. 2015. “Lifetimes of Violence in a Sample of Released Prisoners.” Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 1(2):14–30.
Western, Bruce, Anthony A. Braga, Jaclyn Davis, and Catherine Sirois. 2015. “Stress and Hardship After Prison.” American Journal of Sociology 120(5):1512– 1547.
Schiraldi, Vincent, Bruce Western, and Kendra Bradner. 2015. “Community- Based Responses to Justice-Involved Young Adults.” New Thinking in Community Corrections. Executive Session on Community Corrections, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.
2014
Travis, Jermey, Bruce Western, and Steve Redburn ed. 2014. The Growth of Incarceration in the United States. Washington, D.C.: National Research Council.
Western, Bruce. 2014. “Incarceration, Inequality, and Imagining Alternatives.”The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 651(1):302-306.
2013
Western, Bruce and Christopher Muller. 2013. “Mass Incarceration, Macrosociology, and the Poor.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 647(1):166-189.
2012
Pager, Devah and Bruce Western. 2012. “Identifying Discrimination at Work: The Use of Field Experiments.” Journal of Social Issues 68(2):221-237.
Western, Bruce and Jake Rosenfeld. 2012. “Workers of the World Divide: The Decline of the Labor and the Future of the Middle Class.” Foreign Affairs 91(3):88-99.
Western, Bruce, Deidre Bloome, Benjamin Sosnaud, and Laura Tach. 2012. “Economic Insecurity and Social Stratification.”Annual Review of Sociology 38:341-359.
2011
Geller, Amanda, Irwin Garfinkel, and Bruce Western. 2011. “Paternal Incarceration and Support for Children in Fragile Families.” Demography 48(1):25-47.
Western, Bruce. 2011. “Poverty Politics and Crime Control in Europe and America.” Contemporary Sociology 40(3):283-286.
Bloome, Deidre and Bruce Western. 2011. “Cohort Change and Racial Differences in Educational and Income Mobility.” Social Forces 90(2):375-395.
Western, Bruce and Jake Rosenfeld. 2011. “Unions, Norms, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality.” American Sociological Review 76(4):513-537. Data Appendix
Grusky, David, Bruce Western, and Christopher Wimer (eds). 2011. The Great Recession. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Chapter 1 -PDF
2010
Western, Bruce and Becky Pettit. 2010. “Incarceration and Social Inequality.” Daedalus 139(3):8-19.
Wildeman, Christopher and Bruce Western. 2010. “Incarceration in Fragile Families.” The Future of Children 20(2):157-177.
2009
Pager, Devah, Bruce Western, and Bart Bonikowski. 2009. “Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment.” American Sociological Review 74:777-799.
Western, Bruce and Deidre Bloome. 2009. “Variance Function Regressions for Studying Inequality.” Sociological Methodology 39(1):293-326.
Western, Bruce and Christopher Wildeman. 2009. “The Black Family and Mass Incarceration.”Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 621:221-242.
2008
Western, Bruce, Deidre Bloome, and Christine Percheski. 2008. “Inequality Among American Families with Children, 1975 to 2005.” American Sociological Review 73(6):903-920.
Western, Bruce. 2008. “Reentry: Reversing Mass Imprisonment,” Boston Review, July 1 (http://bostonreview.net/bruce-western-reentry-reversing-mass-imprisonment).
Western, Bruce. 2008. “From Prison to Work: Overcoming Barriers to Reentry.”The Brookings Institution.
2007
Western, Bruce. 2007. “Introduction to Gresham Sykes’s The Society of Captives.” Pp. ix-xxvii in The Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison by Gresham Sykes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Jacobs, Erin and Bruce Western. 2007. Report on the Evaluation of the ComALERT Prisoner Reentry Program. Brooklyn: ComALERT, Kings County District Attorney’s Office.
Western, Bruce. 2007. Testimony Before the Joint Economic Committee, October 4, 2007. Washington, D.C.: United States Joint Economic Committee.
2006
Western, Bruce, Meredith Kleykamp, and Jake Rosenfeld. 2006. “Did Falling Wages and Employment Increase U.S. Imprisonment?.” Social Forces 84(4):2291-2311.
Western, Bruce. 2006. Punishment and Inequality in America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Introduction - PDF
2005
Western, Bruce and Filiz Garip. 2005. “Bayesian Analysis of Comparative Survey Data.” Princeton University.
Western, Bruce and Becky Pettit. 2005. “Black-White Wage Inequality, Employment Rates, and Incarceration.” American Journal of Sociology 111(2):553-578.
Lopoo, Leonard M. and Bruce Western. 2005. “Incarceration and the Formation and Stability of Marital Unions.” Journal of Marriage and Family 67(3): 721-734.
2004
Pettit, Becky and Bruce Western. 2004. “Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration.” American Sociological Review 69:151-169.
Western, Bruce and Scott M. Lynch. 2004. “Bayesian Predictive Checks for Nonstandard Models.” Sociological Methods and Research 32(3 :301-335.
Western, Bruce and Meredith Kleykamp. 2004. “A Bayesian Change Point Model for Historical Time Series Analysis.” Political Analysis 12(4):354-374.
Mary Patillo, David Weiman, and Bruce Western, eds. 2004. Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration. New York: Russell Sage. Introduction - PDF
2002
Farber, Henry S. and Bruce Western. 2002. “Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Declining Union Organization.” British Journal of Industrial Relations 40(3):385-401.
Western, Bruce. 2002. “The Impact of Incarceration on Wage Mobility and Inequality.”American Sociological Review 67:526-546.
2001
Western, Bruce. 2001. “Bayesian Thinking about Macrosociology.” American Journal of Sociology 107(2):353-378.
Farber, Henry S. and Bruce Western. 2001. “Accounting for the Decline of Unions in the Private Sector, 1973-1998.” Journal of Labor Research 22(3):459-485.
Western, Bruce, Jeffrey R. Kling, and David F. Weiman. 2001. “The Labor Market Consequences of Incarceration.” Crime and Delinquency 47(3):410-427.
Beckett, Katherine and Bruce Western. 2001. “Governing Social Marginality.” Punishment and Society 3(1):43-59.
2000
Western, Bruce and Becky Pettit. 2000. “Incarceration and Racial Inequality in Men’s Employment.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 54(1) 3-16.
Wallerstein, Michael and Bruce Western. 2000. “Unions in Decline? What Has Changed and Why.” Annual Review of Political Science 3:355-377.
1999
Morris, Martina and Bruce Western. 1999. “Inequality in Earnings at the Close of the Twentieth Century.” Annual Review of Sociology 25:623-657.
Western, Bruce. 1999. “Bayesian Analysis for Sociologists: An Introduction.” Sociological Methods and Research 28(1):7-34.
Western, Bruce and Katherine Beckett. 1999. “How Unregulated is the U.S. Labor Market? The Penal System as a Labor Market Institution.” American Journal of Sociology 104(4):1030-1060.
Western, Bruce and Kieran Healy. 1999. “Explaining the OECD Wage Slowdown: Recession or Labour Decline?” European Sociological Review 15(3) 233-249.
1998
Western, Bruce. 1998. “Causal Heterogeneity in Comparative Research: A Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling Approach.”American Journal of Political Science 42(4):1233-1259.
1997
Western, Bruce. 1997. Between Class and Market: Postwar Unionization in the Capitalist Democracies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
1996
Western, Bruce. 1996. “Vague Theory and Model Uncertainty in Macrosociology.” Sociological Methodology 26:165-192.
1995
Berk, Richard, Bruce Western, and Robert E. Weiss. 1995. “Statistical Inference for Apparent Populations.” Sociological Methodology 25:421-458.