- Calavita, Kitty, “Rorschach Tests, Pluralism, and Hopes for the Future: A Response to the Responses.” Law and Social Inquiry 39: 234-241 (2014).
- Calavita, Kitty and Valerie Jenness, “Inside the Pyramid of Disputes: Naming Problems and Filing Grievances in California Prisons.” Social Problems 60: 50-80 (2013).
- Calavita, Kitty, “Immigration, Law, and Marginalization in a Global Economy: Notes from Spain,” Law and Society Review, Vol. 32: 529-566.
- Calavita, Kitty, “The Paradoxes of Race, Class, Identity and ‘Passing’: Enforcing the Chinese Exclusion Acts, 1882-1910,” Law and Social Inquiry, Vol. 25: 1-40.
- Calavita, Kitty, Immigrants at the Margins: Law, Race, and Exclusion in Southern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- Calavita, Kitty, Henry Pontell, and Robert Tillman, Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the S&L Crisis (University of California Press), 1997.
- Calavita, Kitty, “The New Politics of Immigration: ‘Balanced Budget Conservatism’ and Prop 187,” Social Problems, Volume 43, 1996.
- Calavita, Kitty and Henry Pontell, “The State and White-Collar Crime: Saving the Savings and Loans, Law and Society Review, Volume 28, 1994.
- Calavita, Kitty, Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration and the INS (Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1992).
- Calavita, Kitty, “Employer Sanctions Violations: Toward a Dialectical Model of White-Collar Crime,” Law and Society Review, Volume 24, 1990.
- Calavita, Kitty and Henry Pontell, “‘Heads I Win, Tails You Lose’: Deregulation, Crime and Crisis in the Savings and Loan Industry,” Crime and Delinquency, Volume 36, Number 3, July, 1990.
- Calavita, Kitty, “The Contradictions of Immigration Lawmaking: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986,” Law and Policy, Volume 11, Number 1 (1989).
- Calavita, Kitty, “Worker Safety, Law, and Social Change: The Italian Case,” Law and Society Review, Volume 20, Number 2, 1986.
- Calavita, Kitty, U.S. Immigration Law and the Control of Labor, 1820-1924. London: Academic Press 1984.