Digital Vulnerability: The Unequal Risk of E-Contact with the Criminal Justice System

Robert Vargas; Kayla Preito-Hodge; Jeremy Christofferson

doi:10.7758/RSF.2019.5.1.04

Article Information

vol. 5 no. 1 71-88

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.1.04

Published By

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online February 1, 2019.

© 2019 Russell Sage Foundation. Vargas, Robert, Kayla Preito-Hodge, and Jeremy Christofferson. 2019. “Digital Vulnerability: The Unequal Risk of E-Contact with the Criminal Justice System.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5(1): 71–88. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.1.04. We thank Ariel Azar and Anil Sindhwani for research assistance on this project, as well as Dan Gillion, Jothie Rajah, the American Bar Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the anonymous reviewers for comments and critiques on earlier components of this article. Direct correspondence to: Robert Vargas at robvargas@uchicago.edu, 1126 E. 59th St., Chicago, IL 60637. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Robert Vargas^a,
Kayla Preito-Hodge^b and
Jeremy Christofferson^c

^aNeubauer Family Assistant Professor of Sociology and director of the Violence, Law, and Politics Lab at the University of Chicago.
^bA graduate student in the sociology department at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship.
^cA graduate student in the sociology department at the University of Notre Dame.