Jeremy Levine

Jeremy Levine is a political and urban sociologist generally interested in questions related to inequality and public policy, especially urban and criminal justice policy. Levine has worked with legislators and advocates in New York on ongoing legislative campaigns related to crime victims and the criminal legal system, and at Harvard he helped design the Boston-Area Research Initiative (BARI), a collaboration between social scientists and city government officials. His analyses helped advocates pass the Fair Access to Victim Compensation Act in New York State in late 2023.

Levine's first book, Constructing Community (Princeton University Press), is an ethnography of urban governance and development in Boston’s poorest neighborhoods. He has published articles in the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, and Social Forces, among other journals. His work has won awards from the Comparative-Historical, Political, and Urban Sociology sections of the American Sociological Association.

Levine is currently writing his second book on the historical development and contemporary consequences of crime victim policy in the United States. He is especially interested in the relationship between victim policy, punishment, and racial and gender inequality. The University of Michigan LSA Magazine recently profiled this ongoing work in its Fall 2023 edition.

Educational background

• AM and PhD in Sociology at Harvard University
• BA in History and Sociology at the University of Michigan