Braman, Donald

GW Law Faculty Publications

March 12, 2018

SSRN | Scholarly Commons

BOOKS

Doing Time on the Outside: Incarceration and Family Life in Urban America (Univ. Mich. Press, 2004). 

LAW REVIEW ARTICLES & CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Causing or Risking Climate Catastrophe, N.Y.U. Env’t L. Rev. Syndicate (Jan. 2, 2025), https://nyuelj.org/2025/01/causing-or-risking-climate-catastrophe/ (with Aaron Regunberg & David Arkush).

Charging Big Oil with Climate Homicide: Preliminary Prosecution Memo for July 2023 Heat Wave, Pub. Citizen (June 2024), https://www.citizen.org/article/charging-big-oil-with-climate-homicide/ (with Aaron Regunberg, Cindy Cho & David Arkush). 

Prosecutors in the Passing Lane: Racial Disparities, Public Safety, and Prosecutorial Declinations of Pretextual Stops, 61 San Diego L. Rev. 87 (2024) (with Jared Fishman, Lily Grier, Kevin Himberger, Jarvis Idowu, J.J. Naddeo, Rory Pulvino, Jess Sorensen & Joanie Weaver).

Climate Homicide: Prosecuting Big Oil for Climate Deaths, 48 Harv. Env’t L. Rev. 45 (2024) (with David Arkush).

Participatory Policymaking Across Cultural Cognitive Divides: Two Tests of Cultural Biasing in Public Forum Design and Deliberation, 94 Pub. Admin. 970 (2016) (with John Gastil, Katherine R. Knobloch & Dan Kahan.)

Geoengineering and Climate Change Polarization: Testing a Two-Channel Model of Science Communication, 658 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 192 (2015) (with Dan M. Kahan et al.).

Judicial Backlash or Just Backlash? Evidence from a National Experiment, 112 Colum. L. Rev. 731 (2012) (with David Fontana).

The Polarizing Impact of Science Literacy and Numeracy on Perceived Climate Change Risks, 2 Nature Climate Change 732 (2012) (with Dan M. Kahan et al.).

They Saw a Protest: Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction, 64 Stan. L. Rev. 851 (2012) (with Dan M. Kahan et al.).

Cultural Cognition of Scientific Consensus, 14 J. Risk Rsch. 147 (2011) (with Dan M. Kahan & Hank Jenkins-Smith).

The Cultural Orientation of Mass Political Opinion, 44 PS: Pol. Sci. & Pol. 711 (2011) (with John Gastil, Dan Kahan & Paul Slovic).

A Core of Agreement: Reply, 77 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1655 (2010) (with Dan M. Kahan & David A. Hoffman).

Who Fears the HPV Vaccine, Who Doesn't, and Why? An Experimental Study of the Mechanisms of Cultural Cognition, 34 Law & Hum. Behav. 501 (2010) (with Dan M. Kahan, Geoffrey L. Cohen, John Gastil & Paul Slovic).

Cultural Cognition and Public Policy: The Case of Outpatient Commitment Laws, 34 Law & Hum. Behav. 118 (2010) (with Dan M. Kahan, John Monahan, Lisa Callahan & Ellen Peters).

Cultural Cognition and the Reasonable Person, 14 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 1455 (2010).

Some Realism about Punishment Naturalism, 77 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1531 (2010) (with Dan M. Kaha & David A. Hoffman).

Whose Eyes Are You Going to Believe? Scott v. Harris and the Perils of Cognitive Illiberalism, 122 Harv. L. Rev. 837 (2009) (with Dan M. Kahan & David A. Hoffman).

Cultural Cognition of the Risks and Benefits of Nanotechnology, 4 Nature Nanotechnology 87 (2009) (with Dan M. Kahan, Paul Slovic, John Gastil & Geoffrey Cohen).

Deliberation Across the Cultural Divide: Assessing the Potential for Reconciling Conflicting Cultural Orientations to Reproductive Technology, 76 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1772 (2008) (with John Gastil & Dan J. Kahan).

The Self-Defensive Cognition of Self-Defense, 45 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 1 (2008) (with Dan M. Kahan).

Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White-Male Effect in Risk Perception, 4 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 465 (2007) (with Dan M. Kahan, John Gastil, Paul Slovic & C. K. Mertz).

Beyond the Gun Fight: The Aftermath of the Virginia Tech Massacre, Nat’l L.J. (Apr. 30, 2007), https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/almID/900005479374/ (with Dan Kahan).

Legal Realism as Psychological and Cultural (Not Political) Realism, in How Law Knows 93 (Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas & Martha Merrill Umphrey eds., Stanford Univ. Press, 2007) (with Dan M. Kahan).  

Criminal Law and the Pursuit of Equality, 84 Tex. L. Rev. 2097 (2006).

Cultural Cognition and Public Policy, 24 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 149 (2006) (with Dan M. Kahan).

Overcoming the Fear of Guns, the Fear of Gun Control, and the Fear of Cultural Politics: Constructing a Better Gun Debate, 55 Emory L.J. 569 (2006) (with Dan M. Kahan).

Punishment and Accountability: Understanding and Reforming Criminal Sanctions in America, 53 UCLA L. Rev. 1143 (2006).

Ending Polarization: The Good News About the Culture Wars, Bost. Rev. (Mar. 1, 2006), https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/ending-polarization-culture-wars-gastil-kahan-braman/ (with John Gastil & Dan M. Kahan).

A Cultural Critique of Gun Litigation, in Suing the Gun Industry: A Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts 105 (Timothy Lytton ed., Univ. of Mich. Press, 2005) (with Dan M. Kahan & John Gastil).

Modeling Facts, Culture, and Cognition in the Gun Debate, 18 Soc. Just. Res. 283 (2005) (with Dan M. Kahan & James Grimmelmann).

Families and the Moral Economy of Incarcerationin Criminal Justice: Retribution vs. Restoration? 27 (Eleanor Hannon Judah & Michael Bryant eds., Haworth Pastoral Press, 2004).
         Reprinted from 23 J. Religion & Spirituality Soc. Work no. 1/2 (2004).

Caught in the Crossfire: A Defense of the Cultural Theory of Gun-Risk Perceptions, 151 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1395 (2003) (with Dan M. Kahan).

From One Generation to the Next, in Prisoners Once Removed: The Impact of Incarceration and Reentry on Children, Families, and Communities (Jeremy Travis & Michelle Waul eds., Urb. Inst. Press, 2003) (with Jennifer Wood).

More Statistics, Less Persuasion: A Cultural Theory of Gun-Risk Perceptions, 151 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1291 (2003) (with Dan M. Kahan).

Families and Incarceration, in Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment 117 (Marc Mauer & Meda Chesney-Lind eds., New Press, 2002).

Of Race and Immutability, 46 UCLA L. Rev. 1375 (1999).

BOOK REVIEWS

Fear of Democracy?: A Cultural Evaluation of Sunstein on Risk,  119 Harv. L. Rev. 1071 (2006) (reviewing Cass Sunstein,  Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle (2005)) (with Dan M. Kahan, Paul Slovic & John Gastil).

OTHER

Does Outreach Encouraging Families to Engage with Community-Based Organizations Increase Engagement and School Attendance? (The Lab @ DC, 2021) (with Rachel Breslin, Peter C. Casey, Rebecca A. Johnson & Kevin H. Wilson.)

The New Republic: Supreme Anxiety, The New Republic (Jan. 19 2012), http://www.npr.org/2012/01/19/145445550/the-new-republic-supreme-anxiety (with David Fontana).
         Also available at: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/magazine/99528/supreme-court-voter-reactions.