Burch, Traci, Ron Levi and Robert
Nelson. eds. 2023. “Streets, Suites, and States: John
Hagan’s Contributions to the Study of Law, Power, and
Inequality.” Law & Social Inquiry, Volume
48(4), November 2023.
Christensen, Mikkel and Ron Levi, eds. 2018. International Practices of Criminal Justice: Social and Legal Perspectives. New York: Routledge.
Levi, Ron and John Hagan, eds., with the collaboration of Sara Dezalay. Guest editor for two special issues of Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales on Pacifier et Punir (“To Bring Peace and to Punish”).
Levi, Ron, Sophie Marois and Sara Dezalay. 2024. "Lawyers, Archivists, and the Turn to Transparency in the French State." American Journal of International Law Unbound 118:30-35.
Levi, Ron, Traci Burch and Robert Nelson. 2023. “Streets, Suites, and States: John Hagan’s Contributions to the Study of Law, Power, and Inequality.” Law & Social Inquiry 48:1109-1116.
S endroiu, Ioana
and Ron Levi. 2023. “World Society Corridors:
Partnership Patterns in the Spread of Human Rights.” Social
Forces 102:377-401.
Stein, Janice Gross and Ron Levi. 2023. “Testing Deterrence by Denial: Experimental Results from Criminology.” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 46:101-121.
Sendroiu, Ioana, Ron Levi and
John Hagan. 2022. “Legal Cynicism and System Avoidance:
Roma Marginality in Central and Eastern Europe.” Social
Forces 101:281-308.
Upenieks, Laura, Ioana Sendroiu,
Ron Levi and John Hagan. 2022. “Beliefs about Legality
and Benefits for Mental Health.” Journal of Health
and Social Behavior 63:266-282.
Levi, Ron, Ronit Dinovitzer and
Wendy Wong. 2022. “Strategic Philanthropy and
International Strategies: The Ford Foundation and
Investments in Law Schools and Legal Education.”
Pp.79-122 in B. Garth and G. Shaffer, eds., The
Globalization of Legal Education. New York:
Oxford University Press.
Levi, Ron, Holly Campeau and Todd
Foglesong. 2022. “Recognition Gaps and Economies of
Worth in Police Encounters.” American Journal of
Cultural Sociology 10:87-109.
Campeau, Holly, Ron Levi and Todd Foglesong. 2021. “Policing, Recognition, and the Bind of Legal Cynicism.” Social Problems 68:658-674.
Bigo, Didier, Afrânio Garcia, Laurent Jeanpierre, Ron Levi, Johanna Siméant-Germanos, Grégory Daho and Antoine Vauchez. 2021. “Les ficelles de l’enquête globale.” Cultures et conflits 119-120: 115-149.
Levi, Ron, Ioana Sendroiu and John Hagan. 2020. “America First Populism, Social Volatility, and Self-Reported Arrests.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117:26703-26709.
Levi, Ron, Todd Foglesong and Matt Torigian. 2020. “Community Safety and Repurposing the Police Before, During, and After a Pandemic: Methodological Notes.” Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being 5:75-78.
Levi, Ron and Ioana Sendroiu. 2020. “Performance, Power, and Transnational Legal Ordering: Addressing Sexual Violence as a Human Rights Concern.” Pp. 333-368 in G. Shaffer and E. Aaronson, eds., The Transnational Legal Ordering of Criminal Justice. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Levi, Ron and Ioana Sendroiu. 2019. “Moral Claims and Redress after Atrocity: Economies of Worth across Political Cultures in the Holocaust Swiss Banks Litigation.” Poetics 73:45-60.
Campeau, Holly and Ron Levi. 2019. “Neoliberal Legality as Dual Process: Embeddedness, Courts and Crime Prevention in the United States.” British Journal of Criminology 59: 334–353.
Christensen, Mikkel and Ron Levi. 2018. “An Internationalized Criminal Justice: Paths of Law and Paths of Police.” Pp.1-14 in M. Christensen and R. Levi, eds. International Practices of Criminal Justice: Social and Legal Perspectives. New York: Routledge.
Wong, Wendy, Ron Levi and Julia Deutsch. 2017. “The Ford Foundation: Building and Domesticating the Field of Human Rights.” Pp. 82-100 in L. Seabrooke and L. Henriksen, eds., Professional Networks in Transnational Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Levi, Ron. 2017. “Respect of Law or Respect through Law?” Ethnic and Racial Studies 40:1251-1260.
Levi, Ron, Sara Dezalay and Michael Amiraslani. 2016. “Prosecutorial Practice and Strategic Statements: Justifying International Prosecutions from the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg through to the International Criminal Court.” Comparativ: Journal for Global History and Comparative Studies 26:58-73. Slightly expanded version also published in M. Christensen and R. Levi, eds. 2018. Pp. 89-107 in International Practices of Criminal Justice: Social and Legal Perspectives. Oxon: Routledge.
Cheung, Carmen and Ron Levi. 2016. “Counter-Terrorism Strategies and Risk Management: Containing or Dislocating Risk?” Justice Report 31:36-39.
Levi, Ron, John Hagan and Sara Dezalay. 2016. “International Courts in Atypical Political Environments: The Interplay of Prosecutorial Strategy, Evidence, and Court Authority in International Criminal Law.” Law and Contemporary Problems 79:289-314.
Dersnah, Megan and Ron Levi. 2016. “Human Rights Indicators and Boundaries of Accountability and Opportunity.” Pp.271-289 in T. Kahana and A. Scolnicov, eds. Boundaries of State, Boundaries of Rights: Human Rights, Private Actors, and Positive Obligations. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Stein, Janice Gross and Ron Levi. 2015. “The Social Psychology of Denial: Deterring Terrorism.” New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 47:409-438.
Levi, Ron and Janice Gross Stein. 2015. “The Complex Ecology of Policing, Trust, and Community Partnerships in Counterterrorism.” Pp.203-209 in After the Paris Attacks: Responses in Canada, Europe and Around the Globe, edited by S. Toope & E. Iacobucci. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Jenson, Jane and Ron Levi. 2013. “Narratives and Regimes of Social and Human Rights: The Jackpines of the Neoliberal Era.” Pp.69-98 in Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era, edited by P. Hall & M. Lamont. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Taylor, Judith, Ron Levi and Ronit Dinovitzer. 2012. “Homeland Tourism, Emotion and Identity Labor.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 9:67-85.
Levi, Ron and John Hagan. 2012. “Lawyers, Humanitarian Emergencies, and the Politics of Large Numbers.” Pp. 13-47 in Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice, edited by Y. Dezalay & B. Garth. New York: Routledge.
Levi, Ron. 2011. “Class and Criminal Justice in Neoliberal Times: Wacquant Dissects the Penal State” [review essay]. Punishment and Society 13:480-488.
Dinovitzer, Ronit, John Hagan and Ron Levi. 2009. “Immigration and Youthful Illegalities in a Global Edge City.” Social Forces 88:337-372.
Levi, Ron. 2009. “Gated Communities in Law’s Gaze: Material Forms and the Production of a Social Body in Legal Adjudication.” Law & Social Inquiry 34:635-669.
Levi, Ron. 2009. “Making Counter‑Law: On Having No Apparent Purpose in Chicago.” British Journal of Criminology 49:131-149 [lead article].
Levi, Ron. 2008. “Auditable Community: The Moral Order of Megan’s Law.” British Journal of Criminology 48:583-603 [lead article].
Levi, Ron and Heather Schoenfeld. 2008. “Médiation et droit pénal international: Le façonnage des outils de poursuite des crimes de guerre”. Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 174:4-23 [lead article].
Levi, Ron. 2008. Introduction to Les Roberts, “Exposé relatif au nombre de morts en Irak aux membres du Congrès américain Ron Paul et Dennis Kucinich.” Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 174:45-46.
Levi, Ron. 2008. “Loitering in the City That Works: On Circulation, Activity, and Police in Governing Urban Space.” Pp. 178-199, 253-262 in Police and the Liberal State, edited by M.D. Dubber & M. Valverde. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Levi, Ron and Mariana Valverde. 2008. “Studying Law by Association: Bruno Latour Goes to the Conseil d’Etat” [review essay]. Law & Social Inquiry 33:805-825.
Levi, Ron and John Hagan. 2008. “Penser les ‘Crimes de Guerre’”. Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 173:6-21.
Hagan, John, Ron Levi and Ronit Dinovitzer. 2008. “The Symbolic Violence of the Crime‑Immigration Nexus: Migrant Mythologies in the Americas.” Criminology & Public Policy 7:95-112.
Schoenfeld, Heather, Ron Levi and John Hagan. 2007. “Crises extrêmes et institutionnalisation du droit pénal international” (“Extreme Crises and the Institutionalization of International Criminal Law”). Critique Internationale 36(3): 37-54.
Hagan, John and Ron Levi. 2007. “Justiciability as Field Effect: When Sociology Meets Human Rights.” Sociological Forum 22:372-380.
Levi, Ron and Mariana Valverde. 2006. “Freedom of the City: Canadian Cities and the Quest for Governmental Status.” Osgoode Hall Law Journal 44:409-461.
Valverde, Mariana and Ron Levi. 2006. “Gobernando la comunidad, gobernando a través de la comunidad". Delito y Sociedad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales 22:5-30.
Levi, Ron and John Hagan. 2006. “International Police.” Pp. 207-247 in The New Police Science: The Police Power in Domestic and International Governance, edited by M.D. Dubber & M. Valverde. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Hagan, John, Ron Levi and Gabrielle Ferrales. 2006. “Swaying the Hand of Justice: The Internal and External Dynamics of Regime Change at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.” Law & Social Inquiry 31:585-616.
Hagan, John and Ron Levi. 2005. “Crimes of War and the Force of Law.” Social Forces 83:1499-1534.
Valverde, Mariana, Ron Levi and Dawn Moore. 2005. “Legal Knowledges of Risks.” Pp. 86-120 in Law and Risk, edited by the Law Commission of Canada. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Hagan, John and Ron Levi. 2004. “Social Skill, the Milosevic Indictment, and the Rebirth of International Criminal Justice.” European Journal of Criminology 1:445-475.
Levi, Ron and Mariana Valverde. 2001. “Knowledge on Tap: Police Science and ‘Common Knowledge’ in the Legal Regulation of Drunkenness.” Law & Social Inquiry 26:201-228.
Levi, Ron. 2000. “The Mutuality of Risk and Community: The Adjudication of Community Notification Statutes.” Economy & Society 29:578-601.
Janisch, Hudson and Ron Levi. 1997. “Criminal Justice from the Bottom-Up: Some Thoughts on Police Rulemaking Processes.” Pp. 243-278 in The Province of Administrative Law, edited by M. Taggart. Oxford: Hart.
Levi, Ron. 1997. “The Provision of Legal Aid Services under the Young Offenders Act.” Pp. 691-771 in Report of the Ontario Legal Aid Review: A Blueprint for Publicly Funded Legal Services, vol. 3, chaired by J.D. McCamus. Toronto: Ontario Legal Aid Review.
Book Reviews
Levi, Ron. 2019. Review of Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State, by V. Barker. Law & Society Review 53:932-934.
Levi, Ron. 2019. Review of The Remnants of the Rechtsstaat: An Ethnography of Nazi Law, by J. Meierhenrich. Law & Society Review 53:626-628.
Levi, Ron. 2015. Review of Fallout: Nuclear Diplomacy in an Age of Global Fracture, by G. Mallard. Trajectories: Newsletter of the American Sociological Association Comparative and Historical Sociology Section 26(2):11-14.
Levi, Ron. 2014. Review of American Memories: Atrocities and the Law, by J. Savelsberg & R. King. Law & Society Review 48:703-707.
Expanded and revised version published in Culture: American Sociological Association Section on the Sociology of Culture Newsletter 26(1):23-25.
Levi, Ron. 2005. Review of The Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism, by D. Kennedy. Journal of Law and Society 32:493-497.
Levi, Ron. 2005. Review of La fabrique du droit: Une ethnographie du Conseil d’Etat, by B. Latour. Law, Culture and the Humanities 1:137-139.
Levi, Ron. 2002. Review of Crime, Risk and Justice: The Politics of Crime Control in Liberal Democracies, edited by K. Stenson & R.R. Sullivan. British Journal of Criminology 41:451-453.
Levi, Ron. 2000. Review of Vigilant Citizens: Vigilantism and the State, by R. Abrahams. British Journal of Criminology 40:768-771.
Levi, Ron. 1995. Review of Beyond the Law: Crime in Complex Organizations, vol. 18, Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, edited by M. Tonry & A.J. Reiss. Canadian Journal of Law & Society 10:274-276.
Reports and Public Writing
Foglesong, Todd, Ron Levi, Rick
Rosenfeld, Heather Schoenfeld, Jennifer Wood, Don Stemen
and Andres Rengifo. 2022. Violent crime and public
prosecution: A review of recent data on homicide,
robbery, and progressive prosecution in the United
States.
Sendroiu, Ioana and Ron Levi. 2020. “Borders and Economies of Worth During COVID-19.” States, Power & Societies: American Sociological Association Political Sociology Section Newsletter. Spring/Summer:17-19.
Foglesong, Todd and Ron Levi. 2020. “How to research policing? Talk to people who have been arrested. 4 insights from 150 arrested individuals on the role and reform of the police.” LSE Impact Blog. 28 September.
Foglesong, Todd, Ron Levi, Claire Wilmot, Julius Haag and Matt Torigian. 2020. Experiences and Perceptions of the Police in Cleveland: A Report for the Monitor Based on Interviews with Arrested Detainees. Police Assessment Resource Center.
Foglesong, Todd, Claire Wilmot, Ron Levi, Julius Haag and Natalia Otto. 2019. Experiences and Perceptions of the Police in Baltimore: A Report for the Monitor Based on Interviews with Arrested Detainees. Baltimore Police Monitoring Team.
Foglesong, Todd, Ron Levi, Holly Campeau and Claire Wilmot. 2017. Experiences and Perceptions of the Police in Cleveland: A Report for the Monitor Based on Interviews with Arrested Detainees. Police Assessment Resource Center.
Levi, Ron. 2016. “The Future of Memory.” Holocaust Education Week, Scholar in Residence essay. Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto.
Foglesong, Todd and Ron Levi. 2015. Indicators for 2015-2020 Strategic Plan, “Investing in Solutions.” Memo for International Development Research Center.
Stein, Janice Gross and Ron Levi. 2013. “Thinking About Ethical Leadership: Judicial Independence in Revolutionary Times.” Op-ed. Chumir Ethics Forum 14(1):1,4.
Levi, Ron and Janice Gross Stein. 2013. “Egypt’s Vocabulary of Legitimacy.” Op-ed. Globe & Mail. 10 July.
Levi, Ron. 2013. “Egypt in Unsettled Times: For Georges Moustaki.” Op-ed. Canadian Jewish News. 24 June.
Levi, Ron, Ronit Dinovitzer and John Hagan. 2011. Diversity, Dispositions, Community Engagement and Resilience. Report submitted to Public Safety Canada, for Metropolis Pre-Conference Workshop on Determinants of Community Resilience.
Levi, Ron and Akwsai Owusu-Bempah, with Natasha Madon, Maria Jung, Luca Berardi and Daria Risteska. 2010. Justice, Policing and Security, Literature Review for 2009: A Successful Societies Approach. Report submitted to Metropolis Canada.
Valverde, Mariana and Ron Levi. 2005. Still the Creatures of Provinces? Canadian Cities’ Quest for Governmental Status. Report submitted to the Law Commission of Canada.
Valverde, Mariana, Ron Levi and Dawn Moore. 2003. Legal Knowledges of Risk. Report submitted to the Law Commission of Canada.
Valverde, Mariana, Ron Levi, Clifford Shearing, Mary Condon and Pat O’Malley. 2000. Democracy in Governance: A Socio-Legal Framework. Ottawa: Law Commission of Canada.
Levi, Ron. 1997. “The Provision of Legal Aid Services under the Young Offenders Act.” Report submitted to the Ontario Legal Aid Review.