Education
| 2015 | Ph.D. Criminology, Law & Society, University of California, Irvine |
| 2008 | B.A. Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz |
Professional Experience
| 2021 - | Associate Professor, University of Miami, Department of Sociology |
| 2019 - | Secondary Appointment, School of Law, University of Miami |
Honors & Acknowledgements
Rodney Thaxton Racial Justice Award, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida
U-LINK Phase I Research Award, University of Miami
Provost’s Research Award, University of Miami
Conferences & Events
| 2019 | Is the Process the Only Punishment?: Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Lower-Level Courts. American Society of Criminology conference | San Francisco, CAMarisa Omori and Nick Petersen |
| 2019 | Individual or Institutional Inequality in the Courts?: Decomposing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Conviction and Sentencing. Law and Society Association conference | Washington, DCOmori, Marisa and Nick Petersen |
| 2018 | Let Them Serve: Californians Consider Permanent FelonJuror Exclusion in the Golden State | Western Criminology Society Annual Conference, Long Beach, CA.Binnall, James and Nick Petersen |
| 2018 | Characterizing the spatial mismatch between intimate partner violence related healthcare services and arrests in Miami-Dade County, Florida. | Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers. Washington, DCStoler, Justin, Jessica Williams, and Nick Petersen |
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Criminology, Law & Society, Racial Stratification, Geography and Criminal Justice, Research Methods, Statistics
Publications
Lanuza, Yader, Nick Petersen, and Marisa Omori "Colorism in Punishment Among Hispanics in the Criminal Justice System" Social Problems 1-22 (2021).
George Wilson, Vincent Roscigno, Carsten Sauer, and Nick Petersen "Mobility, Inequality, and Beliefs About Distribution and Redistribution." (2021).
Marisa Omori and Nick Petersen. "Institutionalizing Inequality in the Courts: Decomposing Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Detention, Conviction and Sentencing." Criminology 678-713Vol. 58(4)
Nick Petersen. Forthcoming. "Low-Level, but High Speed?: Assessing Pretrial Detention Effects on the Timing and Content of Misdemeanor versus Felony Guilty Pleas." Justice Quarterly. DOI:10.1080/07418825.2019.1639791.
Ward, Geoff, Nick Petersen, Aaron Kupchik, and James Pratt. Forthcoming. "School Discipline and the Legacy of Racialized Violence: Historic Lynching and Racially Disparate Corporal Punishment in Southern Schools." Social Problems.
George Wilson, Nick Petersen, David Maume, and Ryan Smith. "Particularism and Racial Mobility into Privileged Occupations." Social Science Research, 78 (2019) 82–94. (2019). [Link]
Petersen, Nick, Marisa Omori, and Rachel Lautenschlager*. "“(Dis)order in the Court: Examining Neighborhood Disorder Prosecutions in Miami-Dade County." Justice Quarterly. (2019). [Link]
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