Chloe Haimson

Chloe is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Prison Education Program of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at New York University. I received my PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin—Madison in June 2022. My research interests include punishment, prison reentry, race and ethnicity, and inequality. I investigate how people experience the reach of the criminal legal system and how it extends its reach beyond incarceration. I do this by studying surveillance and punishment in the era of decarceration, as well as the lives of formerly incarcerated people and parole agents. My dissertation investigated the decisions parole agents make during their everyday work routines, how these choices influence the trajectories of individuals on parole after prison, and their consequences for the expansion of punishment in the U.S. I also study the rising role of algorithms in this process, as well as their implications for surveillance and the provision of prison reentry support. In other work, I have focused on the emergence of stigma in the comparative challenges facing people on parole and people who were exonerated of crimes after their incarceration. Additionally, I have written and collected ethnographic data about the policing of protests.