• 2024 Fall
  • SOC 200 Selected Topics - Sociology of Law
  • SOC 495 Senior Thesis
• 2024 Spring
  • SOC 334 Criminal Justice
  • SOC/WGS 319/317 Qualitative Methods in Sociology
• 2023 Fall
  • SOC 334 Criminal Justice

"Reform and Inequality: An Examination of Alternatives to Punishment in New York State", Sponsored by Laura and John Arnold Foundation.

"Alternatives to Punishment and Social Inequality", Sponsored by Russell Sage Foundation.

"A National Survey of Pay-to-Stay Recoupment: Mapping Variation in the Use of Civil Lawsuits, Fiscal Incentives, and Collateral Consequences", Sponsored by Laura and John Arnold Foundation.

"National Survey of Pay-to-Stay Practices", Sponsored by Institute for Humane Studies.

""Alternatives" to Punishment and Social Inequality", Sponsored by Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

• Journal Articles
  • Kirk, G., Garrity, K., Huebner, B., Uggen, C. and Shannon, S., "Justice by Geography: The Role of Monetary Sanctions Across Communities." RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2022.
  • Martin, K. D., Spencer-Suarez, K. and Kirk, G., "Pay or Display: Monetary Sanctions and the Performance of Accountability and Procedural Integrity in New York and Illinois." RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences , 2022.
  • Fernandes, A. D., Friedman, B. and Kirk, G., "The ‘Damaged’ State vs. the ‘Willful’ Nonpayer: Constructing Damage, Harm, and Willfulness through Pay-to-Stay Lawsuits." RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2022.
  • Kirk, G., Eife, E., "And you will wait…’: Carceral Transportation in Electronic Monitoring as Part of the Punishment Process." Punishment and Society , 2021.
  • Pattillo, M., Kirk, G., "Layaway Freedom: Coercive Financialization in the Criminal Justice System." American Journal of Sociology, 2021.
  • Friedman, B., Fernandes, A. D. and Kirk, G., "Like if you get a hotel bill’: Consumer Logic, Pay-to-Stay and the Production of Incarceration as a Public Commodity." Sociological Forum , 2021.
  • Kirk, G., "The Limits of Expectations and the Minimization of Collateral Consequences: Experiences of Electronic Home Monitoring." Social Problems , 2021.
  • Kirk, G., Cadigan, M., "On Thin Ice: Bureaucratic Processes of Monetary Sanctions and Job Insecurity." RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2020.
  • Pattillo, M., Kirk, G., "Pay Unto Caesar: Breaches of Justice in the Monetary Sanctions Regime." UCLA Criminal Justice Law Review, 2020.
  • Kirk, G., Fernandes, A. D. and Friedman, B., "Who Pays for the Welfare State? Austerity Politics and the Origin of Pay-to-Stay Fees as Revenue Generation." Sociological Perspectives, 2020.
• Book Review
  • Kirk, G., Review of James Gacek’s Portable Prisons. Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, Rutgers University, 2022.
• Congressional Testimonies
  • Fernandes, A. D., Friedman, B. and Kirk, G., Pay-to-Stay and Socioeconomic Inequality. , 2021.
  • Fernandes, A. D., Friedman, B. and Kirk, G., Pay-to-Stay and Socioeconomic Inequality in Connecticut. , 2021.
• Essays
  • Kirk-Werner, G. M., Fernandes, A. D. and Friedman, B., "Pay-to-Stay as Stategraft." Wisconsin Law Review Forward.
  • Kirk, G., Boches, D. J., Cadigan , M. and Smith , T., "What are you here for?” Graduate Student Positionality in Qualitative Research." The Criminologist, 2019.
• Newspaper Article
  • Fernandes , A. D., Friedman, B. and Kirk, G., "Forcing people to pay for being locked up remains common." The Washington Post, 2022.
• Technical Reports
  • Patrice, J., Kilgore, J., Kirk, G., Mueller, G., Sanders, E., Staudt, S. and Jackson WIlson, L., Cages Without Bars: Pretrial Electronic Monitoring Across the United States. Shriver Center on Poverty Law, 2022.
  • Kirk, G., Electronic Monitoring Review Cook County, Illinois Final Report. Chicago Appleseed: Center for Fair Courts, 2022.

SUPA Sociology Training, SUPA, "Electronic Monitoring Technologies and Mass Incarceration" (December, 2023)

American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, American Society of Criminology, "Flavors of Reform: Electronic Monitoring Policies and Current Reform Movements" (November, 2023)

Arnold Ventures RDCJN Kick-Off, Arnold Ventures, "Reform and Inequality: An Examination of “Alternatives to Punishment” in New York State" (September, 2023)

American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, "Pains of Privacy: Mapping Carceral Practices onto Electronic Monitoring" (August, 2023)

Research Committee on Sociology of Law Annual Meeting, International Association of Sociology, "Safety through Knowing: Electronic Monitoring as a Legibility Project" (August, 2023)

Fernandes, A. D., Kirk-Werner, G. M., Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Law and Society Association, "Civil Lawfare" (June, 2023)

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, "Criminal Justice and Technology: Law and It's Limitations" (June, 2023)

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, "Safety through Knowing: Electronic Monitoring as a Legibility Project" (June, 2023)

Berkeley Summer Institute on the New Political Economy, Hewlett Foundation, "The Political Economy of Punishment" (June, 2023)

Center for Policy Research Speaker Series, Center for Policy Research, "Reforming the Shadow Carceral State: the Repeal of Prison Pay-to-Stay Laws in Illinois" (March, 2023)

Fernandes, A., Friedman, B., Kirk, G., American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, "Adding Insult to Injury: Suing Prisoners with Disabilities for Incarceration Costs" (August, 2022)

American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, "Local LFOs, Prisons, and Captive Defendants" (August, 2022)

Fernandes, A., Friedman, B., Kirk, G., RDCJN, "Adding Insult to Injury: Suing Prisoners with Disabilities for Incarceration Costs" (July, 2022)

Law and Society Association, "Creating Supervised Subjects: How Stakeholders Create a Need for Electronic Monitoring Technologies" (July, 2022)

RDCJN, "Creating Supervised Subjects: How Stakeholders Create a Need for Electronic Monitoring Technologies" (July, 2022)

American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Virtual, "Layaway Freedom: Coercive Financialization in the Criminal Justice System" (August, 2021)

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Virtual., "Who Pays for the Welfare State? Austerity Politics and the Origin of Pay-to-Stay Fees as Revenue Generation" (May, 2021)

American Society of Criminologists Annual Meeting, *Cancelled COVID-19, "Economic Injustice: Multi-State Studies of Legal and Financial Obligations" (November, 2020)

American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Virtual., "“And you will wait …”: Carceral Transportation in Electronic Monitoring as Part of the Punishment Process" (August, 2020)

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Virtual., "On Thin Ice: Bureaucratic Processes of Monetary Sanctions and Job Insecurity" (May, 2020)

Friedman, B., Fernandes, A., Kirk, G., American Society of Criminologists Annual Meeting, "Consumer Logic and Predatory Justice: Why States Sue Prisoners for the Cost of Incarceration" (November, 2019)

Urban and Community Workshop at Northwestern University, "The Punishment of Carceral Transport: Electronic Monitoring in Cook County" (October, 2019)

Kirk, G., Cadigan, M., American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, "Financial Literacy without the Finances: Social Distance between Courtroom Bureaucrats and those Under their Surveillance" (August, 2019)

American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, "Narrative and Expectation in the Experience of Electronic Home Monitoring" (August, 2019)

Annual Meeting for the Society of the Study of Social Problems, "The Limits of Expectations and Collateral Consequences: Experience of Electronic Home Monitoring" (August, 2019)

Kirk, G., Cadgian, M., The Russel Sage Foundation, "On Thin Ice: Bureaucratic Processes of Monetary Sanctions & Job Insecurity" (February, 2019)

Best Graduate Student Paper, Sociology of Law Section, American Sociological Association (August 18, 2023)

Service Commendation, Editorial Board Sociological Perspectives, Pacific Sociological Association (2020)

Student Paper Award Winner, Society of the Study of Social Problems, Crime and Delinquency Section (2019)

Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2018)

Phi Beta Kappa (2014)