Publications

Published Manuscripts

Echols, C.M. and Nancy Rodriguez. (Forthcoming). “Understanding the Relationship Between Race and Ethnicity, Probation Officers’ Recommendations, and Juvenile Court Outcomes.” In Research Handbook on Race, Crime, and Justice, edited by Kelly Welch. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Echols, Courtney M. and Nancy Rodriguez. 2025. “Who Should go Home from Detention?: The Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Probation Officers’ Recommendations to the Court.” Crime & Delinquency, 1-30.

Echols, Courtney M. and Meghan Ballard. 2024. “The Archive as a Site: The Issues, Challenges, and Benefits of Conducting Archival Research on Anti-Black Violence and Black Resistance in the United States.” In Communities of Practice and Ethnographic Fieldwork: Creating Supportive Research Experiences, edited by Lee Cabatingan, Susan Coutin, and Deyanira N. Martinez. New York, NY: Routledge.

Echols, Courtney M. 2022. “Anti-Blackness is the American Way: Assessing the Relationship Between Chattel Slavery, Lynchings, & Police Violence During the Civil Rights Movement.” Race and Justice 14, no. 2 (2024): 217-232.

Manuscripts Under Review

Williams, Kirk, & Courtney M. Echols. “Testing for Racial and Ethnic Bias When Assessing Intimate Partner Violence Defendants.” Revise and Resubmit.

Echols, Courtney M. “Histories of Anti-Black Violence & Contemporary Black Death in the Murder Capital of America.” 

Echols, Courtney M. “Refining Slavery, Reproducing Carcerality: The Changing Dynamics of Racist Violence, Policing, and White Supremacist Culture in Mid-20th Century Louisiana.” 

Echols, Courtney M. ““Data-Driven” Displacement: The Role of Predictive Policing Technology In Gentrifying Black Communities and Safeguarding White Entitlement to Property & Space.” 

Manuscripts in Progress

Sykes, Bryan L., Courtney M. Echols, and Vicente Mata. “Triaging the Search for Treatment: Shadow Costs, Rehabilitation Program Providers, and Sequencing Information Inequality in the California Criminal Legal System.” In preparation for Social Problems. 

Echols, Courtney M. “Abolish “Data-Driven” Policing: An Analysis of The Relationship Between Racial Capitalism and the Racist Violence of a “Data-Driven” Policing Program in Los Angeles.” In preparation for The Journal of Gender, Race and Justice.

Echols, Courtney M. “The Slow Violence of Predictive Policing: A Critical Analysis of A Los Angeles Program & Its’ Role in the Dispossession, Displacement, and Death of Black Residents.” In preparation for Theoretical Criminology.

Echols, Courtney M. and Bryan L. Sykes. “Contemporary Incarceration: An Integrative Assessment of the Direct and Indirect Effects of Racially Violent Histories.” In preparation for Social Forces.

Community Based Reports

Garcia, Jamie and Courtney M. Echols. 2021. “Automation of Banishment: New Technologies, Old Patterns.” In Automating Banishment: The Surveillance and Policing of Looted Land. Available at: https://automatingbanishment.org/

Echols, Courtney M., Tiff Guerra, Jamie Garcia, and Sarah Hamid. 2019. “Abolish Carceral Technologies: The People’s Response.” Available at: https://stoplapdspying.org/abolish-carceral-technologies-the-peoples-response/

Echols, Courtney M., Tiff Guerra, Jamie Garcia, and Sarah Hamid. “The People’s Response to OIG Audit Data-Driven Policing.” Available at: https://stoplapdspying.org/the-peoples-response-to-oig-audit-of-data-driven-policing/

Echols, Courtney M. 2018. “Crime Data: A Biased and Racist Social Construct.” In Before the Bullet Hits the Body: Dismantling Predictive Policing in Los Angeles. Available at:

Echols, Courtney M. 2018. “LASER’s Racist Feedback Loop.” In Before the Bullet Hits the Body: Dismantling Predictive Policing in Los Angeles. Available at: https://stoplapdspying.org/before-the-bullet-hits-the-body-dismantling-predictive-policing-in-los-angeles/

Additional Publications

Echols, Courtney M. 2023. “Juvenile Probation Officers’ Recommendations Worsen Racial and Ethnic Sentencing Disparities.” The London School of Economics and Political Science. USAPP- American Politics and Policy. Available at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2023/03/09/juvenile-probation-officers-recommendations-worsen-racial-and-ethnic-sentencing-disparities/

Echols, Courtney M. and Tremayne W. Wilson. 2022. “Overcoming Obstacles to DEI in the Legal Profession.” OC Lawyer’s Magazine.

Echols, Courtney M. and Brooke Weitzman. 2021. “The Housing Crisis in Orange County: A 2021 Update.” OC Lawyer’s Magazine.