| Does undocumented immigration increase violent crime? MT Light, T Miller Criminology 56 (2), 370-401, 2018 | 242 | 2018 |
| Citizenship and punishment: The salience of national membership in US criminal courts MT Light, M Massoglia, RD King American sociological review 79 (5), 825-847, 2014 | 166 | 2014 |
| Racial disparity in the wake of the Booker/Fanfan decision: An alternative analysis to the USSC's 2010 report JT Ulmer, MT Light, JH Kramer Criminology & Pub. Pol'y 10, 1077, 2011 | 146 | 2011 |
| The home foreclosure crisis and rising suicide rates, 2005 to 2010 JN Houle, MT Light American journal of public health 104 (6), 1073-1079, 2014 | 145 | 2014 |
| Have racial and ethnic disparities in sentencing declined? RD King, MT Light Crime and Justice 48 (1), 365-437, 2019 | 100 | 2019 |
| The “liberation” of federal judges’ discretion in the wake of the Booker/Fanfan decision: Is there increased disparity and divergence between courts? J Ulmer, MT Light, J Kramer Justice Quarterly 28 (6), 799-837, 2011 | 99 | 2011 |
| Comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas MT Light, J He, JP Robey Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (51), 32340-32347, 2020 | 97 | 2020 |
| The new face of legal inequality: Noncitizens and the long-term trends in sentencing disparities across US district courts, 1992–2009 MT Light Law & Society Review 48 (2), 447-478, 2014 | 95 | 2014 |
| Explaining the gaps in White, Black, and Hispanic violence since 1990: Accounting for immigration, incarceration, and inequality MT Light, JT Ulmer American Sociological Review 81 (2), 290-315, 2016 | 91 | 2016 |
| A rising share: Hispanics and federal crime MH Lopez, MT Light Pew Research Center, 2009 | 81 | 2009 |
| Race, space, and violence: Exploring spatial dependence in structural covariates of white and black violent crime in US counties MT Light, CT Harris Journal of Quantitative Criminology 28, 559-586, 2012 | 76 | 2012 |
| Segregation and violence reconsidered: Do whites benefit from residential segregation? MT Light, JT Thomas American sociological review 84 (4), 690-725, 2019 | 62 | 2019 |
| The harder they fall? Sex and race/ethnic specific suicide rates in the US foreclosure crisis JN Houle, MT Light Social Science & Medicine 180, 114-124, 2017 | 47 | 2017 |
| The rise of federal immigration crimes MT Light, MH Lopez, A Gonzalez-Barrera Pew Research Center, 2014 | 44 | 2014 |
| Re-examining the relationship between Latino immigration and racial/ethnic violence MT Light Social science research 65, 222-239, 2017 | 38 | 2017 |
| Undocumented immigration, drug problems, and driving under the influence in the United States, 1990–2014 MT Light, T Miller, BC Kelly American Journal of Public Health 107 (9), 1448-1454, 2017 | 36 | 2017 |
| The declining significance of race in criminal sentencing: Evidence from US federal courts MT Light Social Forces 100 (3), 1110-1141, 2022 | 30 | 2022 |
| Beyond disparity: Changes in federal sentencing after Booker and Gall J Ulmer, MT Light Fed. Sent'g Rep. 23, 333, 2010 | 18 | 2010 |
| The stability of case processing and sentencing post-Booker JT Ulmer, MT Light J. Gender Race & Just. 14, 143, 2010 | 18 | 2010 |
| Punishing the “others”: Citizenship and state social control in the United States and Germany MT Light European Journal of Sociology/Archives Européennes de Sociologie 58 (1), 33-71, 2017 | 16 | 2017 |
Jeffery T. UlmerProfessor of Sociology and CriminologyVerified email at psu.edu
