Dr. Paul Kaplan
Professor
School of Public Affairs
College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts
SDSU
Primary Email: [email protected]
Building/Location
Adams Humanities - 4118
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego,
CA
92182-4560
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Bio
PAUL KAPLAN is a Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Public Affairs at San Diego State University. He received his PhD in Criminology, Law and Society from the University of California, Irvine in 2007. His primary research areas are capital punishment and cultural criminology. His work has appeared in journals such as the Law & Society Review, Theoretical Criminology, Crime, Media, Culture, Race and Justice, and Law & Social Inquiry. His first book, Murder Stories: Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment was published in 2012. His next book, with Daniel LaChance, Crimesploitation: Crime and Reality TV in an Age of Neoliberal Punitivism will be published by Stanford University Press. He is the co-creator, with Brian Goeltzenleuchter, of the Art | Crime Archive: www.artcrimearchive.net. Dr. Kaplan is the former President of the Western Society of Criminology (2013-2014). Prior to entering academics, he worked as a mitigation investigator on capital cases.
Publications
Kaplan, P. and LaChance, D. (2018). "Criminal Justice in the Middlebrow Imagination: the Punitive Dimensions of Making a Murderer." Crime, Media, Culture.
Angioli, S. and Kaplan, P. (2017). "’Some Things Are Just Better Left As Secrets’ Non-Transparency and Prosecutorial Decision Making in the Era of Neoliberal Punitivism." Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology.
Kaplan, P. and LaChance, D. (2017). "Crimesploitation." The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Kaplan, P., Dunn, K., and Sherman, N. (2016). "Localism and Capital Judicial Override in Jefferson County, Alabama." Race and Justice.
Kaplan, P., Dunn, K., and Jackson, S. (2016). "The Problem of Explanation: Understanding the Scandal of Judicial Override in Capital Cases." Social Justice.
Fleury-Steiner, B., Kaplan, P., and Longazel, J. (2015). "Defending Racial Boundaries: Racist Localism in Administration of Capital Punishment in the U.S." Studies in Law, Politics, and Society.
LaChance, D. and Kaplan, P. (2015). "The Seductions of Crimesploitation: The Apprehension of Sex Offenders on Primetime Television." Law, Culture and the Humanities.
Kaplan, P., Goeltzenleuchter, B., and Salmonson, D. (2014). "The Art / Crime Archive: An Anti-Boredom Space." The STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) Journal.