Dr. Joshua Chanin

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Adams Humanities - 4120
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-4560

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Bio

Josh is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in both the Public Administration and Criminology/Criminal Justice programs. Trained as a lawyer, with a PhD in public administration, his scholarly interests lie at the intersection of law, criminal justice, and governance. He has used both quantitative and qualitative techniques to examine the extent to which constitutional law and legal values like due process, equity, and transparency shape the administration of public programs. Much of Josh’s work has focused on policing. He has written extensively about the U.S. Department of Justice’s ‘pattern or practice’ initiative, with a focus on the implementation and sustainability of federal efforts to remedy systematic misconduct among state and local police departments. He has also written about the disparate impacts of police enforcement and how the various individual, organizational, and contextual factors that shape bureaucratic behavior affect the treatment of racial minorities. He is currently working on a project related to police transparency.

Publications

Welsh, M., Chanin, J., & Henry, S. (2020).   "Complex colorblindness in police processes and practices." Social Problems.

Chanin, J. (2018).   "Traffic Enforcement Through the Lens of Race: A Sequential Analysis of Post-Stop Outcomes in San Diego, California." Criminal Justice Policy Review.

Chanin, J., Rojo-Mendoza, R., and Wartell, J. (2018).   "Does Gender Matter? Using the Theory of Representative Bureaucracy to Examine Pedestrian Stops in Seattle, Washington." Administrative Theory & Praxis.

Chanin, J. and Rojo-Mendoza, R. (2018).   "Do Cops Look out for their Own? Considering the Influence of Officer Race and Neighborhood Context in the Administration of Stop and Frisk in Seattle, Washington." Public Administration Review.

Chanin, J. and Courts, J. (2017).   "Examining the Determinants of Police Department Online Transparency." Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society.

Chanin, J.and Sheats, B. (2017).   "Depolicing as Dissent-Shirking: Examining the Effects of Pattern or Practice Misconduct Reform on Individual Officer Behavior." Journal of Criminal Justice.

Chanin, J. (2017).   "Police Reform through an Administrative Lens: The Case for Further Attention to the Justice Department’s Pattern or Practice Initiative." Administrative Theory & Praxis.

Chanin, J. (2017).   "The Early Stages of Pattern or Practice Police Misconduct Reform: An Examination of the DOJ’s Investigation and Negotiation Processes." Police Quarterly.

Chanin, J. and Espinosa, S. (2016).   "Examining the Determinants of Police Transparency: The View of Police Executives." Criminal Justice Policy Review.

Chanin, J. (2015).   "Examining the Sustainability of Pattern or Practice Police Misconduct Reform." Police Quarterly.

Chanin, J. (2014).   "The Underexplored World of Remedial Law in Public Administration Scholarship: An Examination and Proposed Research Agenda." Administration & Society.

Chanin, J. (2014).   "On the Implementation of Pattern or Practice Police Misconduct Reform." Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society.