About Me
Dallas Augustine is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Justice Studies at San José State University. She received her Ph.D. in Criminology, Law & Society from UC Irvine and her B.A. from New York University. Prior to joining SJSU, she completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative in the Center for Vulnerable Populations at the University of California, San Francisco.
Her research broadly examines punishment and inequality, with foci on prisons, reentry, employment, and homelessness. She is especially interested in working with and for groups at heightened risk of incarceration, such as those with intersecting vulnerabilities including people who use drugs, have serious mental illness, and/or experience homelessness. Her work has been published in journals including Criminology, American Journal of Public Health, Law & Social Inquiry, PLOS ONE, and the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
She also served as the President of the Board of Directors of the Orange County Needle Exchange Program through the organization’s closure in 2021. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a volunteer Reentry Advisor with the California Reentry Project at San Quentin State Prison, helping incarcerated people create plans for their release from prison - an experience that shaped her research agenda and continues to guide her in all aspects of her scholarship, teaching, and service.
Selected Publications
Augustine, D. (2023). “Coerced work on parole: Prevalence, mechanisms, and characteristics.” Criminology, 61(3), 546-581..
Augustine, D., & Kushel, M. (2022). “Community Supervision, Housing Insecurity, & Homelessness.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 701(1), 152-171.
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(1), 1-13.
Sugie, N. F., Zatz, N. D., & Augustine, D. (2020). “Employer aversion to criminal records: An experimental study of mechanisms.” Criminology, 58(1), 5-34.
Reiter, K., Ventura, J., Lovell, D., Augustine, D., Barragan, M., Blair, T., Chesnut, K., Dashtgard, P., Gonzalez, G., & Strong, J. D. (2020). “Psychological distress in solitary confinement: Symptoms, severity, and prevalence in the United States, 2017–2018.” American Journal of Public Health, 110(S1), S56-S62.
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.
Augustine, D. (2019). “Working around the law: Navigating legal barriers to employment during reentry.” Law & Social Inquiry, 44(3), 726-751.
