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BA, Sociology - UCLA

MA, Sociology & Education - Teachers College, Columbia University

PhD, Criminology, Law & Society  - UC Irvine

Incarceration 

Solitary Confinement

Re-Entry Education

Policing

Gun Violence

Community-Based Interventions

Qualitative Methods

CRM 3325 - Mass Incarceration 

CRM 3330 - Restorative Justice 

CRM 3350 - Criminological Theory 

CRM 3390 - Media & Crime

CRM 4611 - Senior Symposium - Gang & Gun Violence

Reiter, K., Augustine, D., Strong, J.D., Barragan, M., Gonzalez, G., & Pifer, N. (2025). An autopsy of conceptualizing health in solitary confinement: Diagnosing knowledge production in solitary confinement. In B. Dolan & J. McMullin (Eds.), The Legal Determinants of Health: From Incarceration to Accessibility (pp.45-77). University of California Health Humanities Press.

Reiter, K., Augustine, D., Barragan, M., Gonzalez, G., Pifer, N., Strong, J., & Tublitz, R. (2025). Against optimization: Solitary confinement and the research policy nexus. Journal of Criminal Justice 99.

Tublitz, R., Reiter, K., Augustine, D., Barragan, M., Chesnut, K., Gonzalez, G., Pifer, N., & Strong, J. (2025). Getting boxed in: How race and gang labeling shape solitary confinement use. Punishment & Society 27(4).

Augustine, D., Pifer, N.A., Tublitz, R., Gonzalez, G., Strong, J., Barragan, M., Reiter, K., & Chesnut, K. (2025). Unexceptional patterns of solitary confinement: Cycling and re-entry shocks within prison. British Journal of Criminology.

Barragan, M., Augustine, D., Gonzalez, G., & Reiter, K. (2023). Deconstructing the Power Dynamic of Prison Research. The Prison Journal.

Barragan, M., Escobar, M.D., Gonzalez, L., & Terriquez, P. (2023). Radically rethinking equity in higher education: Lessons from Project Rebound. About Campus.

Barragan, M. (2021). Policing and punishing illegal gun behavior: An examination of jail detainee experiences with gun law enforcement in Los Angeles. Social Problems.

Augustine, D., Barragan, M., Chesnut, K., Pifer, N.A., Reiter, K., & Strong, J.D. (2021). Window dressing: Possibilities and limitations of incremental changes in solitary confinement. Health & Justice, 9(21).  

Reiter, K., Chesnut, K., Gonzalez, G., Strong, J., Tublitz, R., Augusting, D., Barragan, M., Dashtgard, P., & Pifer, N. (2021). Reducing Restrictive Housing Use in Washington State: Results from the 2016-2020 Study “Understanding and Replicating Washington State’s Segregation Reduction Programs,” Contract NO. K11273.   

Reiter, K., Augustine, D., Barragan, M., Chesnut, K., Gonzalez, G., Pifer, N., & Strong, J.(2020). Reflections on team research in carceral settings. In J. Schossler (Ed.), Prison Stories: Women Scholars’ Experiences Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Research Behind Bars (pp. 13-34). Lexington Books.

Strong, J.D., Reiter, K., Gonzalez, G., Tublitz, R., Augustine, D., Barragan, M., Chesnut, K.,Dashtgard, P., Pifer, N., & Blair, T.R. (2020). The body in isolation: The physical health impacts of incarceration in solitary confinement. PLoS ONE, 15(10), e0238510.

Reiter, K., Ventura, J., Lovell, D., Augustine, D., Barragan, M., Blair, T., Chesnut, K., Dashtgard, P., Gonzalez, G., Pifer, N., and Strong, J. (2020). Psychological distress in solitary confinement: Symptoms, severity, and prevalence in the United States, 2017-2018. American Journal of Public Health, 110(1), S56-S62.

Matthay, E.C., Farkas, K., Rudolph, K.E., Zimmerman, S., Barragan, M., Goin, D.E., & Ahern, J. (2019). Association of the Operation Peacemaker Fellowship in Richmond, CA with population-level firearm and non-firearm homicide and assault: A quasi-experimental study. American Journal of Public Health, 109(1), 1605-1611.

Tita, G., & Barragan, M. (2019). Understanding the illicit gun market in Los Angeles: A review of the empirical evidence. In J. Carlson, K.Goss, & H. Shapira (Eds.), Guns: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Politics, Policy, and Practice (pp. 75-94). Routledge.

Barragan, M., Chesnut, K., Gravel, J., Pifer, N., Reiter, K., Sherman, N., & Tita, G. (2017). Prohibited possessors and the law: How inmates in Los Angeles jails understand firearm and ammunition regulations. Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 3(5), 141-163.

Chesnut, K., Barragan, M., Gravel, J., Pifer, N., Reiter, K., Sherman, N., & Tita. G.E. (2016). Not an “iron pipeline,” but many capillaries: Regulating passive gun transactions in Los Angeles’ secondary, illegal gun market. Injury Prevention 23(4), 226-231.

Barragan, M., Sherman, N., Reiter, K., & Tita, G. (2016). “Damned if you do, damned if you don’t”: Perceptions of guns, safety, and legitimacy among detained gun offenders. Criminal Justice and Behavior 43(1), 140-155.