Expertise Areas: Law & Society, Criminology, Science & Technology Studies
Bio
Dr. Keith Guzik's areas of concentration include criminology, law & society, science & technology studies, sociological theory, and qualitative methods. His research examines technology’s role in state institutions and processes and its impact on people’s legal experiences. His recent work has examined the operation of digital government, the use of surveillance technologies to combat insecurity, especially in the context of Mexico’s War on Crime, the adoption of body-worn cameras by policing agencies in the United States, and the relationship between procedural justice and court legitimacy in Poland. He has also written on intimate partner abuse in the past and the effects of arrest and prosecution on changing abusers’ conduct.
Courses Taught
SOCY 3119 Qualitative Methods
Selected Works and Experience
“Vse (Everyone) Online?”: an exploration of the evolution of the Russian Federation's digital government portal during the COVID-19 pandemic, published in Frontiers in Sociology volume 8, 08/2023
Making the material routine: a sociomaterial study of the relationship between police body worn cameras (BWCs) and organisational routines, published in Policing & Society, volume 31, 01/2021
Fairness at trial: The impact of procedural justice and other experiential factors on criminal defendants' perceptions of court legitimacy in Poland, published in Law & Social Inquiry, volume 44, 2019
Making Things Stick: Surveillance Technologies and Mexico’s War on Crime, University of California Press, 2016