Nick Petersen

University of Miami — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

13h-index650citations42works2.92yr avg
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Research Topics

Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis(30), Crime Patterns and Interventions(25), Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending(6), Policing Practices and Perceptions(6), Judicial and Constitutional Studies(4)

Publications42 total

Does carnival contribute to crime? Examining the spatiotemporal effects of Mardi Gras on New Orleans Crime Trends (2012–2024)
Journal of Criminal Justice·2025
Revisiting the Use of Total Incarceration Variables in Understanding Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing
Crime & Delinquency·2025· 1 cited
Is There a (Pre)Trial Penalty? Assessing the Joint Impacts of Pretrial Detention and Trial Conviction on Sentencing
Crime & Delinquency·2025· 2 cited
Spatial-Racial Disparities in California's Capital Punishment: Examining the Influence of Geography and Race on Death Sentencing from 1987 to 2019
Race and Justice·2025
Decreased Bi-Partisan Support for Pretrial Detention in Less Serious Cases: Evidence From an Experimental Survey
Criminal Justice and Behavior·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
The Rise of Progressive Prosecutors in the United States: Politics, Prospects, and Perils
Annual Review of Criminology·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
The Rise of Progressive Prosecutors in the United States: Politics, Prospects, and Perils
CrimRxiv·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Political Ideology and Attitudes Toward Pretrial Justice: Exploring the Mediating Role of Racial Resentment
Justice Quarterly·2024· 3 cited
Do progressive prosecutors increase crime? A quasi‐experimental analysis of crime rates in the 100 largest counties, 2000–2020
Criminology & Public Policy·2024· 13 citedOpen Access
Do progressive prosecutors increase crime? A quasi-experimental analysis of crime rates in the 100 largest counties, 2000–2020
CrimRxiv·2024Open Access
Cumulative Colorism in Criminal Courts
Social Science Research·2023· 7 cited
Criminal history inquiries and minority threat in the legal profession: An analysis of law school and state bar admission applications
Law & Policy·2023Open Access
Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Police and Prosecutorial Drug Charging: Analyzing Organizational Overlap in Charging Patterns at Arrest, Filing, and Conviction
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency·2022· 12 cited
Punishing Neighborhood “Outsiders”: Neighborhood Punishment Rates and the Spatial Mis(match) Between Defendants’ Residence and Arrest Locations
Crime & Delinquency·2022· 2 cited
Detecting racial inequalities in criminal justice: towards an equitable deep learning approach for generating and interpreting racial categories using mugshots
AI & Society·2022· 13 cited
Felon-Jurors’ Impact on Deliberation Satisfaction: Do They Really “Infect” the Process?
Justice System Journal·2022
Taking Roll: College Students’ Views of Their Formerly Incarcerated Classmates
Journal of Criminal Justice Education·2021· 11 cited
Colorism in Punishment among Hispanics in the Criminal Justice System
Social Problems·2021· 22 cited
Mobility, Inequality, and Beliefs About Distribution and Redistribution
Social Forces·2021· 15 cited
Institutionalizing inequality in the courts: Decomposing racial and ethnic disparities in detention, conviction, and sentencing*
Criminology·2020· 63 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Marisa Omori(11), James M. Binnall(6), Ojmarrh Mitchell(4), Brandon P. Martínez(3), Shi Yan(3), Stacie St. Louis(3), Geoff Ward(2), Yader R. Lanuza(2), George Wilson(2), Rahul Kumar Dass(2), Ubbo Visser(2), Oshea Johnson(2), Justin Stoler(2), Roger G. Dunham(1), Aaron Kupchik(1), James Bernard Pratt(1), Vincent J. Roscigno(1), Carsten Sauer(1), Rachel Lautenschlager(1), Tamara Rice Lave(1)