Living and Dying in the Shadow of Mass Incarceration Dr. Sarah Brayne, Stanford University
Sarah Brayne is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Sociology. In her research, she uses quantitative and qualitative
methods to understand whether and how data-intensive surveillance
shapes individual trajectories and population-level disparities.
Her first book, Predict
and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of
Policing (Oxford University Press), draws on
ethnographic research within the Los Angeles Police Department to
understand the social implications of law enforcement’s use of
predictive analytics and new surveillance technologies. In
earlier work, Professor Brayne developed a theory of “system
avoidance,” using survey data to test the relationship between
criminal legal contact and involvement in medical, financial,
labor market, and educational institutions.
