Peer-Reviewed Articles

 

Book Reviews

Peirce, J. (2022). Power, Piety, and Productivity: Negotiating Status and Masculinities in Dominican Prisons. In Bartlett, T. & R. Ricciardelli (Eds.), Prison Masculinities (pp. 44-66). Routledge. Read more.

Peirce, J. (2022). Provós, Representantes, Agentes: The Evolution of Prison Governance Arrangements in the Dominican Republic’s Prison Reform Process. In Sozzo, M. (Ed.) Prisons, Inmates, and Governance in Latin America (pp. 93-126). Palgrave Macmillan Press. Read more.

Peirce, J. (2022). “It was supposed to be fair here”: Human Rights and Recourse Mechanisms in the Dominican Republic’s Prison Reform Process. Journal of Human Rights 21(1), 91-109. Read more.

Bailey, M. & J. Peirce. (2022). Reversing the Rural Jail Boom. University of Idaho Law Review 57(3), 525-558.

Peirce, J. (2021). La « double détention »: conditions et droits des détenus haïtiens dans les prisons dominicaines [Doubly Detained: Conditions and Rights of Haitians Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic]. Déviance et Société 45(3), 449-479. Read more.

Peirce, J. (2021). From Rulay to Rules: Perceptions of Prison Life and Reforms in the Dominican Republic’s Old and New Prisons [Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Criminal Justice (unpublished)]. The Graduate Center (CUNY) and John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Read more and please email me for a copy.

Peirce, J. (2021). Two regimes of confinement in tension: Partial prison reform in the Dominican Republic. In Carceral Community: Troubling Prison Worlds in 21st Century Latin America. C. Garces, S. Darke, A. Antillano, L. Duno (Ed.). Palgrave Macmillan Press.

Peirce, J. (2021), “Space, Surveillance, and Sound in Pre- and Post-Reform Prisons in the Dominican Republic.” In Sensory Penalities: Exploring the Senses in Spaces of Punishment and Social Control (Emerald Studies in Culture Criminal Justice and the Arts). Herrity, K., Schmidt, B.E. and Warr, J. (Eds.)Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 125-140. Read more.

Peirce, J. (2020). Overuse of Pretrial Detention in tension with Judicial and Prison Reforms in the Dominican Republic. Latin American Law Review 5(20), 45-69. Read more.

Rengifo, A., D. Rouzbahani & J. Peirce. (2020). Court interpreters and the political economy of punishment in three first-appearance courts. Law & Policy 42(3), 236-260. Read more.

Peirce, J. & G. Fondevila. (2020). Concentrated Violence: The influence of criminal activity and governance on prison violence in Latin America. International Criminal Justice Review 30(1), 99-130. Read more. (Please email me if you cannot access the journal link.)

Peirce, J. (2018). Making the Mandela Rules: Evidence, Expertise, and Politics in the Development of Soft Law International Prison Standards. Queen’s Law Journal 43(2), 263-296. Available at SSRN.

Peirce, J. & L. Kowalchuk. (2005). Faith, Activism, and the Churches in Canada: Lessons from the Canada-Guatemala Solidarity Movement. Studies in Religion 34(3&4), 425-440.


Peirce, J. (2020). Book Review: More Money, More Crime: Prosperity and Rising Crime in Latin America, by Marcelo Bergman. British Journal of Criminology 60(6), 1689-1691. Read more.

Peirce, J. (2020). Comentario a Marcelo Bergman: More Money More Crime: Prosperity and Rising Crime in Latin America. Delito y Sociedad. Revista de Ciencias Sociales 49(1), 187– 192. Read more.


Policy Reports

Montagnet, C., J. Peirce & D. Pitts. (2021). Mapping US Jails’ Use of Restrictive Housing. Vera Institute of Justice: New York.

With Bergman, M. et al. (12 June) Los efectos del Coronavirus en las cárceles de Latino América. Sociedad de Criminologia Latinoamericana & Universidad Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires.

Peirce, J. (2019). La reforma penitenciaria en República Dominicana: Una mirada desde los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible de Naciones Unidas. Global Foundation for Democracy and Development. Santo Domingo. English version here.

Peirce, J., Scheim, A., Stoicescu, C., Thumath, M., Werb, D. (2017). Canada’s Drug Futures Forum: Summary of Proceedings and Final Recommendations. Ottawa.

Peirce, J. (2017). Gap Analysis: Citizen Security in Belize. Inter-American Development Bank: Washington, DC.

Butts, J., K. Tomberg, J. Peirce, D. Evans & A. Irvine. (2016). Reclaiming Futures and Organizing Justice for Drug-Using Youth. New York, NY: Research & Evaluation Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Peirce, J. & Veyrat-Pontet, A. (2013). Citizen Security in Belize: Technical Note 572. Inter-American Development Bank: Washington, DC.


Media Articles

Peirce, J., Stoicescu, C., Thumath, M., Scheim, A. & Forrest, J. (2017, Aug 31). How to heal the scars of Canada’s war on drugsOttawa Citizen.

Peirce, J. (2017, Aug 11). Prisons help turn youth into criminals. In Belize, there is a better path. Insight Crime (Republished from Caribbean DevTrends, IDB).

Peirce, J. (2016, March 22). Jailhouse Blues: Nicaragua’s Take on Prison ReformForeign Affairs. Council on Foreign Relations: New York, NY.


Blog Posts

Peirce, J. & Marmolejo, L. (Sept 8). Measuring recidivism is hard, but we must get it rightSin Miedos: The IDB Citizen Security Blog.

Peirce, J. (2014, May 2). Rethinking Masculinity to Prevent Violence Against WomenSin Miedos: The IDB Citizen Security Blog.

Peirce, J. (2014, Jan 2). Where are the Women in the El Salvador Gang Truce? Sin Miedos: The IDB Citizen Security Blog.

Read more on my Medium site.


Graduate Student Journal Articles

Peirce, J. (2008). Divided City: Inequality and Crime in Urban Brazil. Paterson Review (Graduate Journal of International Affairs) 9, 85-98.

Peirce, J. (2007). Protection for Whom? Stabilization and Coercive Rule in Haiti. Paterson Review (Graduate Journal of International Affairs) 8, 97-112.