CURRICULUM VITA STEVEN K. HERBERT
Department of Geography/Law, Societies and Justice Program University of Washington Box 353550 Seattle, WA 98195-3550 206-685-2621 [email protected] EDUCATION
April 1995. Ph.D., Geography. University of California, Los Angeles. December 1987. M.A., Geography. University of Minnesota.
December 1983. B.A., Social Sciences. Macalester College. AREAS OF INTEREST
Urban/Political Geography Police-Community Relations Geography and the Law Urban Policing Policing the Internet Social and Political Theory
ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE
Professor of Geography/Law, Societies and Justice, University of Washington, 2008 - .
Associate Professor of Geography/Law, Societies and Justice, University of Washington, 2002-2008
Assistant Professor of Geography/Law, Societies and Justice, University of Washington, 2000-2002
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Geography, Indiana University, 1996-2000
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan, 1995-96. Lecturer of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, Spring 1995.
Books
Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). [with Katherine Beckett]
Citizens, Cops, and Power: Recognizing the Limits of Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006).
Policing Space: Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).
Single-Authored Refereed Articles
“The Battle of Seattle Revisited: Or, Seven Views of the Protest-Zoning State,” Political Geography, 26(5), 2007, 601-619.
“Tangled Up in Blue: The Elusive Quest for Police Legitimacy,” Theoretical Criminology 10(4), 2006, 481-504.
“The Trapdoor of Community,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95(4), 2005, 850-865.
“From ‘Spy’ to ‘Okay Guy’: Trust and Validity in Fieldwork with the Police,” Geographical Review 91(1 & 2), 2001, 304-310.
“Assessing Contemporary Policing: Fixing Broken Windows or Shoring up Neo-Liberalism?” Theoretical Criminology 5(4), 2001, 445-466.
“Hard Charger or Station Queen? Policing and the Masculinist State,” Gender, Place and Culture, 8(1), 2001, 55-71.
“For Ethnography,” Progress in Human Geography, 24(4), 2000, 550-568. “Zoning Cyberspace,” Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, 20, 2000, 101-123.
“The End of the Territorially-Sovereign State? The Case of Crime Control in the United States”, Political Geography, 18(2), 1999, 149-72.
“Police Subculture Reconsidered,” Criminology, 36(2), 1998, 343-369.
“Territoriality and the Police.” The Professional Geographer, 49(1), 1997, 86-94.
“Morality in Law Enforcement: Chasing ‘Bad Guys’ With the Los Angeles Police Department.” Law and Society Review, 30(4), 1996, 799-818.
“The Normative Ordering of Police Territoriality: Making and Marking Space with the Los Angeles Police Department.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 86(3), 1996, 567-582.
“The Geopolitics of the Police: Foucault, Disciplinary Power and the Tactics of the Los Angeles Police Department.” Political Geography, 15(1), 1996, 47-59.
“The Trials of Laurence Powell: Law, Space and a ‘Big Time Use of Force’.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 13(2), 1995, 121-136.
Joint-Authored Refereed Articles
“The Boundaries of Penality: Banishment from Urban Space and the Expansion of Punishment,” Law and Social Inquiry, Forthcoming [with Katherine Beckett]
“‘This is Home For Us’: Attachment to Place and the Futility of Banishment,” Social and Cultural Geographies, Forthcoming [with Katherine Beckett].
“Inclusion under the Law as Exclusion from the City: Negotiating the Spatial Limitation of Citizenship in Seattle,” Environment and Planning A, 41(8), 2009, 1962-1978 [with John Carr and Elizabeth Brown].
“Zoning Out Disorder: Assessing Contemporary Practices of Urban Social Control,” Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, 47, 2009, 1-25 [with Katherine Beckett]
“Dealing With Disorder: Social Control in the Post-industrial City,” Theoretical Criminology 12(1), 2008, 5-30 [with Katherine Beckett].
“Conceptions of Space and Crime in the Punitive Neoliberal City,” Antipode 38(4), 2006, 755-777 [with Elizabeth Brown].
Non-refereed Articles
“Die Polizei vor sich selbst schutzen,” (“To Protect the Police From Itself”), Der Uberblick, 34(1), 1998, 21-24.
“Venue vs. Vicinage: The Siting of Trials and the Pursuit of Justice.” Urban Geography, 15(5), 1994, 411-414.
Book Chapters
“A Taut Rubber Band: Theory in Qualitative Methods,” In Sage Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Human Geography, edited by Dydia Delyser, Stuart Aitken, Michael Crang, Steve
Herbert and Linda McDowell (London: Sage, 2009).
“Community Policing and Accountability,” In Community Policing and Peacekeeping, edited by Peter Grabosky (Oxford: Taylor and Francis, 2009).
“Crime and Policing,” In The Sage Companion to the City, edited by Tim Hall, Phil Hubbard, and John R. Short (London: Sage, 2008).
“The Punitive City Revisited: The Transformation of Urban Social Control,” (with Katherine Beckett) In After the War on Crime: Race, Democracy, and a New Reconstruction, M.L. Frampton, I. H. Lopez, and J. Simon, eds. (New York: New York University Press, 2008). “Coercion, Territoriality, Legitimacy: The Police and the Modern State,” In Handbook of Political Geography, K. Cox, M. Low, and J. Robinson, eds., (London: Sage, 2008.)
“The Scales of Justice: Federal-Local Tensions in the War on Terror,” (with Kris Erickson and John Carr) In Uniform Behavior, Andrea Mcardle and Stacy McGoldrick, eds. (New York: Palgrave, 2006).
“Ethnography and Fieldwork,” In Questioning Geography, N. Castree, A. Rodgers, and D. Sherman, eds., (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2005).
“Policing Contested Space: On Patrol at Smiley and Hauser.” In Images of the Street, N. Fyfe, ed. (London: Routledge, 1998).
Review Essays
“Community, Justice, and the State,” Punishment and Society, 2(3), 2000, 362-366.
Books reviewed include: Todd Clear and David Karp, The Community Justice Ideal: Preventing Crime and Achieving Justice (Boulder: Westview Press); Adam Crawford, The Local Governance of Crime (Oxford: Clarendon Press); and William Lyons, The Politics of Community Policing: Rearranging the Power to Punish (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press).
“Reassessing Police and Police Studies,” Theoretical Criminology, 4(1), 2000, 113-119. Books reviewed include: Wesley Skogan and Susan Hartnett, Community Policing, Chicago Style (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997); George Kelling and Catherine Coles, Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in our
Communities (New York: Free Press, 1996); and Richard Ericson and Kevin Haggerty, Policing the Risk Society (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997).
“Los Angeles: Exception or Exemplar?” Urban Geography, 15(8), 1997, pp. 740-42.
Books reviewed include: Allen Scott and Edward Soja, eds., The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996); and Michael Dear, Eric Schockman, and Greg Hise, eds., Rethinking Los Angeles (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996.
“Writing Critical Geopolitics”, Political Geography, 15(6/7), 1996, 641-45.
Books reviewed include: David Campbell, Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992); and Politics Without Principle: Sovereignty, Ethics and the Narratives of the Gulf War (Boulder: Lynne Reiner, 1993)
Book Reviews
The Neoliberal City, by Jason Hackworth (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press), Urban Affairs Review, 43(5), 2008, 743-45.
Community Policing in Chicago: A Tale of Three Cities, by Wesley Skogan (Oxford University Press, 2007), Contemporary Sociology, 37(1), 2008, 63-5.
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, by Ruth Gilmore (University of California Press, 2006), Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97(3), 2007, 653-4.
Police Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives, edited by David Weisburd and Anthony Barga (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Law and Society Review 41(3), 2007, 754-6.
Policing Illegal Drug Markets: Geographic Approaches to Crime Reduction, by George Rengert, Jerry Ratcliffe, and Sanjoy Chakravorty (Criminal Justice Press, 2005), Professional Geographer, 59(2), 2007, 269-70.
The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government, by Markus Dubber (Columbia University Press 2005), Journal of American History 93(1), 2006, 196-7. City Limits: Consumer Culture and the Urban Experience, by Keith Hayward (London: Cavendish) Environment and Planning A 37(11), 2005, 2074.
The Right to the City, by Don Mitchell (New York: Guilford Press). Ethics, Place and Environment 6(3), 2003, 273-75..
Trust in the Law: Encouraging Public Cooperation with the Police and Courts, by Tom Tyler and Yuen Huo (New York: Russell Sage Foundation). Social Forces, 82(2), 2003, 840-841. Boys and their Toys? Masculinity, Technology and Class in America, edited by Roger Horowitz (London: Routledge) Gender, Place and Culture 10(1), 2003, 87-8.
Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing, by Bernard Harcourt (Cambridge: Harvard University Press), Theoretical Criminology 6(1), 2002 106-7.
The Legal Geographies Reader, edited by N. Blomley, D. Delaney and R. Ford (London: Basil Blackwell), Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92(1), 2002, 171-3.
Race, Place and the Law, by David Delaney (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998) Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 89(3), 1999, 549-51.
Law, Space and the Geographies of Power, by Nicholas K. Blomley (New York: Guilford, 1994) Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 85(2), 1995, 389-90.
Crime, Policing and Place, edited by David Evans, David Herbert and Nicholas Fyfe (London: Routledge, 1993) Urban Geography, 15(2), 1994, 201-202.
Other
“Policing,” “Crime,” “Prisons,” “Carceral Geographies,” entries for the Dictionary of Human Geography, edited by Derek Gregory, Geraldine Pratt and R.J. Johnston (London: Basil Blackwell, 2009).
“Overcoming Resistance, Observing State Power: On the Multiple Benefits of Police Ethnography,” Journal of Legal Anthropology 1(1), 2008, 123-126.
“Broken Windows Policing,” entry for The Sage Dictionary of Policing, edited by Alison Wakefield and Jenny Fleming (London: Sage, 2009).
“Contemporary Geographies of Exclusion I: Traversing Skid Road,” Progress in Human Geography, 35(5), 2008, 659-666.
“Back and Forth,” contribution to Review Symposium on Steve Herbert’s Citizens, Cops and Power: Recognizing the Limits of Community, Political Geography 26(2), 2006, 226-229. “POP in San Diego: A Not-So-Local Story,” Criminology and Public Policy 4(2), 2005, 181-186.
Commentary 2, “Classics in Human Geography Revisited: Susan Smith’s Crime, Space and Society, Progress in Human Geography 27(3), 2004, 333-339.
“On Geography and Social Movements: How the Sociological Skeptic Might Respond,” contribution to Review Symposium on Byron Miller’s Geography and Social Movements, Political Geography 20(3), 2001, 925-934.
“On Prolonging the Conversation: Some Correctives and Continuances,” Contribution to Review Symposium on Policing Space: Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department, Urban Geography, 18(5), 1997, 398-402.
GRANTS AND AWARDS University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award, 2009.
Associate Professor Initiative, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Winter Quarter, 2006.
Excellence in Teaching Award, Honors Program, University of Washington, 2004. “Community and Policing,” $25,992 grant, National Science Foundation, Law and Social Science Division, Summer 2001.
Active Learning Grant, Indiana University, Summer 1999.
J. Warren Nystrom Award, Association of American Geographers, 1996.
Winner: 1994 Student Paper Competition, Urban Geography Specialty Group; and 1995 Student Paper Competition, Political Geography Specialty Group, both of the Association of
American Geographers.
Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA, 1994. Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA, 1994-95.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Community Policing and Accountability,” The International Centre for Security and Justice, Australian National University, December 2007.
“Community Policing: An American Perspective,” Scottish Police Research Institute, St. Andrews, Scotland, June 2007.
“Criminalizing Space,” Department of Geography, University of Oregon, May 2007. “Broken Windows and Civil Cities,” Vancouver Public Space Network, May 2007.
“Regulating the Contemporary City,” Departments of Sociology, Anthropology and Geography, University of British Columbia, March 2007.
“No Trespassing: The Growing Legal Exclusion of ‘Undesirables’ from Urban Public Space,” Departments of Geography, Urban Studies and American Studies, Vassar College, November 2006.
“The Trapdoor of Community,” Department of Geography, Leeds University, June 2006.
“Security, Equality and Diversity,” Leeds Social Sciences Institute, Leeds University, June 2006. “Space as Prophylactic?” Department of Geography, University of Washington, May 2006.
“Who Needs Probable Cause? The Regulation of Urban Space and the Incredible Shrinking 4th Amendment,” Department of Criminology and Law and Society, University of California, Irvine, January 2006.
“The Unbearable Lightness of Community”, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, February 2004.
“On the Political Viability of Community,” Department of Geography, University of Washington, October 2003.
“Policing, Community and Democracy,” Law and Society Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, March 2002.
“Policing the Contemporary City,” Deviance Seminar, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, February, 2001.
“Hard Charger vs. Station Queen?”, Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma, November, 2000.
“Virtual Democracy? The Public Sphere in Cyberspace”, Department of Geography, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, October 1999; and Department of Geography, University of Washington, January 2000.
“For Ethnography,” Department of Geography, Indiana University, May 1999.
“Hard Charger or Station Queen?” Department of Criminal Justice, Indiana University, January 1999.
“Morality and the Los Angeles Police Department,” Policing Programme, Public and
Development Management School, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, June 1998
“Policing Contested Space,” Department of Geography, University of Cincinnati, May 1998 “The Decline of the Territorially-Sovereign State? The Case of Crime Control in the United States,” Department of Geography, Dartmouth College, February 1998.
“Police Subculture Reconsidered,” Department of Criminal Justice, Indiana University, April 1997.
“Policing Contested Space: On Patrol at Smiley and Hauser,” Department of Geography, Miami University of Ohio, January 1997.
“Morality in Law Enforcement,” Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois, September 1996.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Pretty Soon There’s Nowhere for You to Go: On the Experience of Being Banished,” Association of American Geographers, Boston, April 2008.
“Trespass, Law, Exclusion, and the Nature of Urban Public Space,” Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April 2007.
“Who Needs Probable Cause? The Regulation of Urban Space and the Incredible Shrinking 4th Amendment,” Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March 2006.
“The Trapdoor of Community,” Association of American Geographers, Denver, April 2005. “The Battle for Seattle Revisited,” Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, March 2004.
“Crime, Disorder, and Neoliberalism,” Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, March 2003.
“Policing, Community and Democracy,” Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, March 2002.
“The Public Forum in Cyberspace,” Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, April 2000.
“Zoning Cyberspace,” Law and Society Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, June 1999. “Geography’s Not-so Cultural Turn,” Critical Human Geography Conference, Cincinnati, OH, October 1998.
“The Socio-Spatial Construction of Police Identity,” Law and Society Association Annual Meetings, St. Louis, June 1997.
“The End of the Territorially-Sovereign State? The Case of Crime Control in the United States,” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Fort Worth, TX, April 1997 “Policing Spaces: Territorial Strategies in the LAPD and Beyond,” American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL, November 1996
“Up in the Air or On the Ground?: Ethnography in Contemporary Human Geography,” Critical Human Geography Conference, Cincinnati, OH, October 1996
“Territoriality and the Police,” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, NC, April 1996.
“Morality in Territorial Action,” Critical Human Geography Conference, Cincinnati, OH, October 1995.
“The Normative Ordering of Police Territoriality,” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, April 1995.
“A Geographer’s View of the Police,” Annual Meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Miami, FL, November 1994.
“The Geopolitics of the Urban: The LAPD and the Irregular Control of Space,” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, March 1994.
PANEL MEMBER/SESSION DISCUSSANT
Discussant, “Scary Cities,” Association of American Geographers, Boston, April 2008. Panel Participant, “Author Meets Critics: Loic Wacquant’s Urban Outcasts”, Association of American Geographers, Boston, April 2008.
Panel Participant, “Behind Enemy Lines: Critical Ethnographies,” Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April 2007.
Discussant, “Statecraft, Violence and World Geopolitics,” Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April 2007.
Panel Participant, “Author Meets Critics: Steve Herbert’s Citizens, Cops, and Power,” “Author Meets Critics: Bruce D’Arcus’s Bounding Dissent,” and “Rethinking Legal Geographies,” Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March 2006.
Panel Participant, “Class and Communites” and “A Guide to Publishing,” Association of American Geographers, Denver, April 2005.
Panel Participant, “A Guide to Publishing,” Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, March 2004.
Session Discussant, “Discourse and the Urban,” Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, March 2003.
Panel Member, “Author Meets Critics Session,” Joseph Nevins’s Operation Gatekeeper: The Construction of the Illegal and the Policing of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary, Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, March 2002.
Panel Member, “Postcards from L.A.,” Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, March 2002.
Panel Member, “Author Meets Critics Session,” Byron Miller’s Geography and Social Movements, Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, April 2000.
Session Discussant, “Representations Of/And the Police,” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, June 1999.
Panel Member, “Author Meets Critics Session”, Steve Herbert’s Policing Space: Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department. Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Fort Worth, TX, April 1997
Panel Member, “Qualitative Methods in Human Geography,” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Fort Worth, TX, April 1997.
PUBLIC/MEDIA INVOLVEMENT
Panel Member, “Performance in Public Spaces,” Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, June 2008 (organized by On The Boards).
Member, Seattle City Council Police Accountability Panel, October 2007 – May 2008. Panelist, “Assessing Vancouver’s Civil City Initiative,” Vancouver Public Space Network, Vancouver Public Library, April 2007
On-air Guest, “Red Eye Radio,” Vancouver Community Radio, “Assessing Broken Windows Policing,” November 2006.
“It takes a community to make community policing work,” Op-ed article, Los Angeles Times, July 28, 1997, p. B7.
Quoted in Los Angeles Times, “Crime in Decline: L.A.’s numbers in perspective,” June 3, 1997 In-studio Guest, “Air Talk,” KPCC-FM, Pasadena, CA, June 11, 1997
In-studio Guest, “Up for Air,” KPFK-FM, North Hollywood, CA, June 12, 1997 PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
Member: Association of American Geographers; Law and Society Association; American Society of Criminology; and Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
Legal Geographies Editor and Member of Editorial Board, Urban Geography, 1995-1999, 2004- 2008.
Member, Editorial Board, Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Member, Editorial Board, Compass.
Co-editor, Sage Handbook of Qualitative Methods for Human Geography.
Article reviewer for Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Political Geography; Urban Geography; Environment and Planning A; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space; Criminology; Journal of Crime and Justice; Social Problems; American Ethnologist; Law and Policy; Law and Society Review; Journal of Historical Geography; Antipode; Geographical Analysis; Geographical Review; Gender, Place and Culture; Police Practice and Research; Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management; Theoretical Criminology; Social and Cultural Geography; Progress in Human Geography; Canadian Journal of Sociology; Urban Studies; Police and Society; Australian Geographer and Geoforum.
Manuscript reviewer for Oxford University Press, University of Minnesota Press, University Press of Colorado, Routledge, and University of Arizona Press. Member, Selection Committee for J. Warren Nystrom Award, Association of American
Geographers, 2002.
Faculty Exchange Participant, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Summer 1998