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Peter K. Enns
Professor; Executive Director, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research; Robert S. Harrison Director, Cornell Center for Social Sciences
Government, College of Arts and Sciences/Public Policy, Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy
Contact Information
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Peter K. Enns
Professor; Executive Director, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research; Robert S. Harrison Director, Cornell Center for Social Sciences
Government, College of Arts and Sciences/Public Policy, Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy
Expertise
Public opinion; representation; criminal justice system; survey research; time series analysis
Current Research Interest
Who gets represented; influence of money on political rhetoric; rise of mass incarceration; effect of incarceration on families
Distinction
American Political Science Association, Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section, Emerging Scholar Award
Cornell Institute for the Social Sciences, Theme Project on The Causes, Consequences, and Future of Mass Incarceration in the United States (2015-2018) Team Leader
Selected Publications
Enns, Peter K. Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Enns, Peter K., Youngmin Yi, Megan Comfort. Alyssa W. Goldman, Hedwig Lee, Christopher Muller, Sara Wakefield, Emily A. Wang, and Christopher Wildeman. “What Percentage of Americans Have Ever Had a Family Member Incarcerated?: Evidence from the Family History of Incarceration Survey (FamHIS).” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 5 (2019).