Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society
Ph.D. Sociology and Social Policy, Demography, Princeton University
(949) 824-7558
nsugie@uci.edu
3319 Social Ecology II
Department:
Criminology, Law and Society
Specializations:
Punishment and criminal legal contact, employment and reentry, social inequality, technology-assisted methods for data collection, analysis, and intervention
Naomi Sugie is an Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society (and, by courtesy, Sociology) and Co-Director of the Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy.
Sugie’s research examines the consequences of criminal legal contact for individuals and their families, focusing on how the criminal legal system influences participation in the labor force, welfare, political system, and other governmental institutions. Sugie uses a variety of methodological approaches and she is particularly interested in developing technology-assisted methods (e.g., mobile phones) to address traditional methodological difficulties for studying hard-to-reach groups. In partnership with the Alliance for Safety and Justice, she is currently conducting a national study to identify how adaptive and individualized message frames, sent through text messaging, influence voter registration and voting rates among system impacted groups. In her dissertation, Sugie distributed phones to men recently released from prison in Newark, NJ and documented daily job search and employment experiences through real-time surveys. See her website on intensive longitudinal data (ILD), which she maintains with Rachel Goldberg, sociology, for resources on ILD analytic methods.
Most recently, Sugie is working alongside other UCI faculty and students to bring greater transparency to the COVID-19 crisis in CA prisons and jails through the creation of a digital archive. UCI PrisonPandemic collected thousands of personal stories contributed by people incarcerated in CA prisons, jails, federal prisons, immigration detention facilities, and their loved ones during the pandemic.
Recent Selected Publications:
Sugie, Naomi F., Kristin Turney, Keramet Reiter, Rebecca Tublitz, Daniela Kaiser, Rebecca Goodsell, Erin Secrist, Ankita Patil, and Monik Jiménez. 2023. “Excess Mortality in U.S. Prisons During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Science Advances. 9(48).
Sugie, Naomi F. and Carol Newark. 2023. “Welfare Drug Bans and Criminal Legal Cycling.” American Journal of Sociology. 129(1).
Sugie, Naomi F. and Emma Conner. 2022. “Marginalization or Incorporation? Welfare Receipt and Political Participation among Young Adults.” Social Problems. 69(3):659-77.
Turney, Kristin and Naomi F. Sugie. 2021. “Connecting Models of Family Stress to Inequality: Parental Arrest and Family Life.” Journal of Marriage and Family. 83(1):102-118.
Sugie, Naomi F., Noah D. Zatz, and Dallas Augustine. 2020. “Employer Aversion to Criminal Records: An Experimental Study of Mechanisms.” Criminology. 58:5-34.
Gottlieb, Aaron and Naomi F. Sugie. 2019. “Marriage, Cohabitation, and Crime: Differentiating Associations by Partnership Stage.” Justice Quarterly. 36(3):503-531.
Sugie, Naomi F. 2018. “Work as Foraging: A Smartphone Study of Job Search and Employment after Prison.” American Journal of Sociology. 123(5):1453-1491.
Sugie, Naomi F. 2018. “Utilizing Smartphones to Study Disadvantaged and Hard-to-Reach Groups.” Sociological Methods and Research. 47(3):458-491.