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Nick Petersen is an Associate Professor of Sociology & Criminology at the University of Miami's College of Arts and Sciences, with a secondary appointment at the Miller School of Medicine. His research centers on racial-ethnic disparities in criminal justice systems, spanning pretrial detention, prosecutorial charging, and sentencing outcomes.
- Focus on capital and non-capital cases across individual and neighborhood levels
- Examines collateral consequences of criminal justice contact
- Investigates progressive prosecutor impacts on incarceration and crime trends
Recent studies analyze spatial-racial disparities in California death sentencing, bi-partisan support for bail reforms, and trauma's effects on neural networks. Collaborative work with scholars like Stacie St. Louis and Ojmarrh Mitchell employs advanced statistical methods such as propensity-score regression and difference-in-differences models.
His research reveals systemic patterns of racial bias in drug charging trajectories and geographic variations in death penalty applications. Secondary work in neuroscience explores functional mediation of traumatic responses despite preserved structural integrity in the default mode network.
