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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. 2024. "From Private Prisons to Private Detention: Visualizing the Business of Immigration Enforcement." Socius, 10. 

• Burkhardt, Brett C. 2024. "Legitimation work in privatized criminal justice: Softening, shrinking, and signaling." Theoretical Criminology, online first.

• Huff, Aimee, Brett. C. Burkhardt, and Michelle Barnhart. 2024. “Advertising Frames and the Legitimation of the Armed American Woman”. Journal of Macromarketing, 44(1):153-177.

• 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, 44(10):1462-1479.

• Burkhardt, Brett C., and Scott Akins. 2022. “How Should Police Respond to Homelessness? Results from a Survey Experiment in Portland, Oregon.” Criminal Justice Studies, 35(3):274-294.

• 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.