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EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011.
• M.S. Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006.
• B.A. Sociology, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR, 2002.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Burkhardt, Brett C., Mark Edwards, Scott Akins, and Christopher Stout. 2023. "Understanding Public Preferences for Policing Homeless Individuals in the United States: Results from a National Survey." Deviant Behavior. doi: 10.1080/01639625.2023.2209692.

• Burkhardt, Brett C., and Scott Akins. 2022. “How Should Police Respond to Homelessness? Results from a Survey Experiment in Portland, Oregon.” Criminal Justice Studies 1–21. doi: 10.1080/1478601X.2022.2089667.

• Burkhardt, Brett C., and Brian T. Connor. 2021. “Toward a Political Sociology of Privatized Punishment: Contestation, State Structures, and Stratification.” Sociology Compass, 15(5):e12874.

• Borradaile, Glencora, Brett Burkhardt, and Alexandria LeClerc. 2020. “Whose Tweets Are Surveilled for the Police: An Audit of a Social-Media Monitoring Tool via Log Files.” In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 570–580. FAT* ’20. Barcelona, Spain: Association for Computing Machinery, 2020.

• Burkhardt, Brett. C. and Story Edison. 2020. “Correctional Privatization in the United States.” In Criminal Justice and Privatisation, (ed. Philip Bean): Routledge.

• Burkhardt, Brett C. 2019. "Contesting Market Rationality: Discursive Struggles over Prison Privatization." Punishment & Society. 21(2):162-186.

• Burkhardt, Brett C. 2019. "Does the Public Sector Respond to Private Competition? An Analysis of Privatization and Prison Performance." Journal of Crime and Justice, 42(2): 201-220.
• Burkhardt, Brett C. 2019. “The Politics of Correctional Privatization in the United States.” Criminology & Public Policy. 18(2):401-418.
• Burkhardt, Brett C. and Keith Baker. 2019. "Agency Correlates of Police Militarization: The Case of MRAPs." Police Quarterly. 22(2):161-191.
• Burkhardt, Brett C. 2017. "Private prisons, explained." The Conversation. (Reprinted in Salon.com.)
• Burkhardt, Brett C. 2017. “Who Is in Private Prisons? Demographic Profiles of Prisoners and Workers in American Private Prisons.” International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 51:24-33.
• Burkhardt, Brett C., Scott Akins, Jon Sassaman, Scott Jackson, Ken Elwer, Charles Lanfear*, Mariana Amorim*, and Katelyn Stevens*. 2017. “University Researcher and Law Enforcement Collaboration: Lessons from a Study of Justice-Involved Persons with Suspected Mental Illness.” International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 61(5): 508-525.
• Burkhardt, Brett C. 2017. “Who Punishes Whom? Bifurcation of Private and Public Responsibilities in Criminal Punishment.” Journal of Crime and Justice, 40(4): 512-527.