Chiara Packard

I'm officially moving to Bluesky 👋 Long overdue, but I'm done with this site. You can find me @chiarapackard.bsky.social - Hope to see you there! ✨

Hello, criminologists! Consider nominating yourself or a colleague or a friend (AKA a frolleague) for this award! 😁 Please reach out with any questions! #crimtwitter

Hi all! I have a new article out! I introduce privilege diffusion—a rhetorical strategy that disperses blame on to vague forces like “culture” or “masculinity,” that appear critical but ultimately obscure responsibility for those with privilege. doi.org/10.1111/soc4.7…

Giving my crash course in qualitative methods tomorrow. As always, slides are posted online for anyone interested (I have the short and longer versions posted). ashleytrubin.com/resources/meth…

Coming February 2026 from University of California Press. A theory-driven case study of frontline labor at one of the largest public benefits bureaucracies in the nation: the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services. More details soon.

🚨NEW PUB🚨 In this article, my friend-colleagues and I suggest that rather than thinking about police contact as direct officer-civilian interactions (temporally constrained), we might view and measure it as PERPETUAL (1/4)

#GivingTuesday is a great opportunity to celebrate the diverse scholarly community our members work together to create! If you would like to donate to #LSA, please click the link below: bit.ly/4fBTTw9 #LawAndSociety #CommunityBuilding #AccessToJustice @chiarapack

Excited to be a co-chair/founder of the @ASAnews community on prison education and being a panelist for our first event w/ some amazing people: @gaberosales @SarahHoiland #MeganKlein #CarlaBarrett #MaryNellTrautner Register link: hostos-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Two more days until this exciting conversation! Please join the listserv (or dm me!) for meeting info. We're really excited to talk with @MichelleSPhelps about her wonderful new book on Friday at 3p ET.

@gd_wilson Miss you too! Join us! 😊

Miss you and E! 😩

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Join the Punishment & Society Reading Group on Oct 25th at 3 pm ET to discuss The Minneapolis Reckoning by @MichelleSPhelps! We’re lucky that Dr. Phelps will be joining us for this conversation! @Punishment_CRN @erin_eife

@ashleytrubin VERY useful!

@chiarapack Thanks, Chiara!! I hope they're useful!

Something I think a lot of scholars don't understand: the more generalist the journal, the more generalist a given article's appeal is supposed to be. What does this mean? 1/

Join us on 10/25! Dm me if you’d like to be added to the listserv for the Zoom link.

@ashleytrubin Great tips, thank you!!

@chiarapack The other thing I do now is circulate chunks or ask students to send me their papers in chunks. I can write a lot of comments on an intro or methods section and get it back quickly, but I slow down for a full paper. So iterative development is quicker (and less overwhelming).

One of the best ways to increase your chances of a successful peer review: circulate your paper to trusted colleagues in the relevant (theoretical, empirical, disciplinary, topical) field(s) BEFORE submitting to a journal. Aim for at least three readers. Plan to revise.

@kim_jungmyung Yay!! Congrats! 🥳

My first solo-authored paper is published at @ERSjournal! It is nice to see a published outcome of my work. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…