Faculty Research
INSTITUTE-SUPPORTED RESEARCH
Each year the Institute invites proposals from UCLA faculty for grants up to $10,000 for research seed grants that support the Institute’s key research themes. Below are summaries and downloadable reports from funded faculty-led research that is supported by the Institute.

Youth Justice in Four Countries: Defining Criminal Responsibility in Law and Practice

Income Inequality and Income Mobility for American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders

Tools, Clinics, Platforms: The Power of Debt

Immigration and Legal Attitudes: Examining Puebla and Philadelphia

Debt and Social Crisis in a U.S. Colony

UCLA Prison Education Program

What It Iz and the Beyond Bars Conference

Case Study of Strategies to Decrease Flood Impacts on Health in SanPaTong District, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand

Right to Release: Analyzing Disparities in Compassionate Release Decisions for People Incarcerated During the Coronavirus Pandemic

The Paris Housing Crisis and the Campaign for Affordable Housing, 1894-1940

A More Public Resilience? On Housing Justice and Climate Justice

Do Police Make Too Many Arrests? The Effect of Enforcement Pullbacks on Crime

Evidence of Expulsion: Documenting Eviction Rates for Research and Advocacy

‘Pintela, Que Yo Se La Coloreo’

UC Extreme Sentencing Project

Financialization, Community Change, and the Social Impacts of the Vertical Dis-Integration of the U.S. Industrial Forest Estate

Land, Livelihoods and Displacement in Indonesia

Community Experiences on Million-Dollar Blocks in Los Angeles

COVID-19 and Renter Distress: Evidence from Los Angeles

Knowledge is Power: Empowering Youth in the Juvenile Justice System Through Popular Education

Protest and Progress: South LA Since the Kerner Report

Systemic Racial Inequality and the COVID-19 Renter Crisis

‘DesAgarrando Pueblo’ – A Research Justice Collective Against Knowledge Extractivism

Divestment, Reparations, and the Abolition University

Shared Horizons: Practices and Poetics of Transatlantic Abolition

The Untold Story of Los Angeles: Women of Color in Academia Life Histories Project

YOU ARE HERE – a homebound travelogue

Carceral Liberation? A Native American Prison Art Show

Formations of Race, the Body, and Technologies of Criminalization in Immigration Enforcement

Between Prison and Precarity: LA Warehouse Workers and the Probation/Staffing Agency Nexus

The New Debt Peonage: Court-Ordered Community Service in LA County

The Ties that Bind: Relationships Between Law Enforcement and the Department of Children and Family Services in Los Angeles County
Faculty Research
INSTITUTE-SUPPORTED RESEARCH
Each year the Institute invites proposals from UCLA faculty for grants up to $10,000 for research seed grants that support the Institute’s key research themes. Below are summaries and reports from funded faculty-led research that is supported by the Institute.

The Paris Housing Crisis and the Campaign for Affordable Housing, 1894-1940

A More Public Resilience? On Housing Justice and Climate Justice

Evidence of Expulsion: Documenting Eviction Rates for Research and Advocacy

Financialization, Community Change, and the Social Impacts of the Vertical Dis-Integration of the U.S. Industrial Forest Estate

Land, Livelihoods and Displacement in Indonesia

COVID-19 and Renter Distress: Evidence from Los Angeles

Protest and Progress: South LA Since the Kerner Report

Systemic Racial Inequality and the COVID-19 Renter Crisis

‘DesAgarrando Pueblo’ – A Research Justice Collective Against Knowledge Extractivism

YOU ARE HERE – a homebound travelogue
Faculty Research
INSTITUTE-SUPPORTED RESEARCH
Each year the Institute invites proposals from UCLA faculty for grants up to $10,000 for research seed grants that support the Institute’s key research themes. Below are summaries and downloadable reports from funded faculty-led research that is supported by the Institute.

Income Inequality and Income Mobility for American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders

Tools, Clinics, Platforms: The Power of Debt

Debt and Social Crisis in a U.S. Colony

Financialization, Community Change, and the Social Impacts of the Vertical Dis-Integration of the U.S. Industrial Forest Estate

COVID-19 and Renter Distress: Evidence from Los Angeles

The New Debt Peonage: Court-Ordered Community Service in LA County
Faculty Research
INSTITUTE-SUPPORTED RESEARCH
Each year the Institute invites proposals from UCLA faculty for grants up to $10,000 for research seed grants that support the Institute’s key research themes. Below are summaries and downloadable reports from funded faculty-led research that is supported by the Institute.

Case Study of Strategies to Decrease Flood Impacts on Health in SanPaTong District, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand

A More Public Resilience? On Housing Justice and Climate Justice

Financialization, Community Change, and the Social Impacts of the Vertical Dis-Integration of the U.S. Industrial Forest Estate
Faculty Research
INSTITUTE-SUPPORTED RESEARCH
Each year the Institute invites proposals from UCLA faculty for grants up to $10,000 for research seed grants that support the Institute’s key research themes. Below are summaries and downloadable reports from funded faculty-led research that is supported by the Institute.

Youth Justice in Four Countries: Defining Criminal Responsibility in Law and Practice

Immigration and Legal Attitudes: Examining Puebla and Philadelphia

UCLA Prison Education Program

What It Iz and the Beyond Bars Conference

Right to Release: Analyzing Disparities in Compassionate Release Decisions for People Incarcerated During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Do Police Make Too Many Arrests? The Effect of Enforcement Pullbacks on Crime

‘Pintela, Que Yo Se La Coloreo’

UC Extreme Sentencing Project

Community Experiences on Million-Dollar Blocks in Los Angeles

Knowledge is Power: Empowering Youth in the Juvenile Justice System Through Popular Education

Systemic Racial Inequality and the COVID-19 Renter Crisis

‘DesAgarrando Pueblo’ – A Research Justice Collective Against Knowledge Extractivism

Divestment, Reparations, and the Abolition University

Shared Horizons: Practices and Poetics of Transatlantic Abolition

Carceral Liberation? A Native American Prison Art Show

Formations of Race, the Body, and Technologies of Criminalization in Immigration Enforcement

Between Prison and Precarity: LA Warehouse Workers and the Probation/Staffing Agency Nexus

The New Debt Peonage: Court-Ordered Community Service in LA County

The Ties that Bind: Relationships Between Law Enforcement and the Department of Children and Family Services in Los Angeles County
Faculty Research
INSTITUTE-SUPPORTED RESEARCH
Each year the Institute invites proposals from UCLA faculty for grants up to $10,000 for research seed grants that support the Institute’s key research themes. Below are summaries and downloadable reports from funded faculty-led research that is supported by the Institute.

‘DesAgarrando Pueblo’ – A Research Justice Collective Against Knowledge Extractivism

Divestment, Reparations, and the Abolition University

The Untold Story of Los Angeles: Women of Color in Academia Life Histories Project
