Books

• Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform (2017)
• Sentencing Law and Policy (2015)

Articles

• The poor reform prosecutor: so far from the state capital, so close to the suburbs, 50 Fordham Urban L J 1013 (2023).
• The Incentives of Private Prisons, 52 Ariz St L Rev 991 (2020).
• A Second Step Act for the States (and Counties, and Cities), 41 Cardozo L Rev 151 (2019)
• It’s About Quality: Private Confinement Facilities in Juvenile Justice, with Jeffrey Butts, 18 Criminology and Public Policy 361 (2019)
• 29th Annual Reckless-Dinitz Lecture: Decarceration’s Blindspots, 16 Ohio St J Crim L 253 (2019)
• Criminal Punishment and the Politics of Place, 45 Fordham Urban L J 571 (2018)
• Federal Sentencing in the States: Some Thoughts on Federal Grants and State Imprisonment, 66 Hastings L J 1567 (2015)
• The War on Drugs and Prison Growth: Limited Importance, and Limited Legislative Options, 52 Harv J Legis 173 (2015)
• Escaping from the Standard Story: Why the Conventional Wisdom on Prison Growth is Wrong, and Where We Can Go From Here,  26 Fed Sent Rptr 265 (2014)
• The Micro and Macro Cause of Prison Growth, 28 Ga State L Rev 1237 (2011)
• The Myths and Realities of Correctional Severity: Evidence from the National Corrections Reporting Program, 13 Am L & Econ Rev 491 (2011)
• The Durability of Prison Populations, 2010 U Chi Legal Forum 73
• The Future of Appellate Sentencing Review: Booker in the States, 93 Marquette Law Review 683 (2009)
• The Empirics of Prison Growth: A Critical Review and Path Forward, 98 J Crim L & Criminology 547 (2008)
• The Vitality of Voluntary Guidelines in the Wake of Blakely v Washington: An Empirical Assessment, 19 Fed Sent Rptr 202 (2007)
• The Continued Vitality of Structured Sentencing Following Blakely: The Effectiveness of Voluntary Guidelines, 54 UCLA L REv 235 (2006).

Book Chapters

• “Theories of Mass Imprisonment,” in Criminal Justice Theory: Explanations and Effects, edited by Cecilia Chouhy et al. (2020)
• “Prosecutorial Guidelines,” in Reforming Criminal Justice, Vol. 3, edited by Erik Luna (2017)
• “The Need for Prosecutorial Guidelines,” in Rethinking Punishment in the Era of Mass Incarceration, edited by Chris Suprenant (2017)
• “Gary Becker,” in Pioneers in Law and Economics, edited by Joshua Wright and Lloyd Cohen (2009)

Book Reviews

• Review of Jeffrey Bellin’s Mass Incarceration Nation, Crim L & Crim Justice Books, September 2023
• Review of David Sklansky’s A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice, 55 L & Society Rev 523 (2021)
• Why The Policy Failures of Mass Incarceration Are Really Political Failures: A Review of Franklin Zimring’s The Insidious Momentum of Mass Incarceration, 104  Minn L Rev 2673 (2020)
• Prosecutors Matter: A Response to Bellin’s Review of Locked In, 116 U Mich L Rev Online 165 (2018)
• The Complicated Economics of Prison Reform (reviewing Hadar Aviram’s Cheap on Crime, and Marie Gottschalk’s Caught), 114 Mich L Rev 951 (2016)
• Waylaid by a Metaphor: A Problematic Account of Prison Growth (reviewing Ernest Drucker’s A Plague of Prisons), 111 Mich L Rev 1087 (2013)