Books​

• Barak, Maya. The Slow Violence of Immigration Court: Procedural Justice on Trial, NYU Press, New York, 2023.
• Gould, Jon B. and Maya Barak. Capital Defense: Inside the Lives of America's Death Penalty Lawyers, NYU Press, New York, 2019.

Featured Publications​ 

• Barak, Maya, Mellinger, H., and Lowrey-Kinberg, B. 2024. “‘They say it’s a crime for us to be here’: Latinx reflections on the myth of the ‘criminal immigrant’ in the Trump era.” Latino Studies.  
• Leon, K. and Barak, Maya. 2023. “MS-13, gang studies, and crimes of the powerful.” In S. Wilson and J. Ortiz (Eds.), Critical and Intersectional Gang Studies, Routledge.
• ​Mellinger, H., Lowrey-Kinberg, B., and Barak, Maya. 2023 “Methodological and practical considerations for cross-cultural focus groups.” Qualitative Criminology.
• Barak, Maya. 2022. “Protest movement and legitimacy in democracy.” In L. Cao (Ed.), Understanding Legitimacy in Criminal Justice:Conceptual and Measurement Challenges, Springer.
• Barak, Maya. 2021. “Can You Hear Me Now? Attorney Perceptions of Interpretation, Technology, and Power in Immigration Court.” Journal on Migration and Human Security.
• Barak, Maya. 2021. “Family Separation as State-Corporate Crime.” Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime. *2021 Outstanding Article or Book Chapter Award, Division of White-Collar and Corporate Crime, American Society of Criminology
• Barak, Maya, Leon, K., and Maguire, Edward. 2020. “Conceptual and Empirical Obstacles in Defining MS-13: Law-Enforcement Perspectives.” Criminology and Public Policy.
• Barak, Maya. 2018. “Popular Media and the Death Penalty: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Death Penalty in Film.” In G. Lee and R. Bohm (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on Capital Punishment. Taylor and Francis.
• Maguire, Edward R., Maya Barak, William Wells, and Chuck Katz. 2018. “Attitudes toward the Use of Violence Against Police among Occupy Wall Street Protesters.” Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice.
• Barak, Maya. 2017. “Motherhood and Immigration Policy: How Immigration Law Shapes Central Americans’ Experience of Family.” In T. Golash-Boza (Ed.), Forced Out and Fenced In: Immigration Tales from the Field. Oxford University Press.

Featured Past Projects​

• Assessing the Transnational Criminal Capacity of MS-13 in the U.S. and El Salvador - National Institute of Justice (NIJ)-funded collaborative, multi-year investigative project focusing on the MS-13 gang in the U.S. and El Salvador. The project’s objective is to provide law enforcement officials with a more comprehensive understanding of MS-13. Findings will shape new policies and practices, provide suggestions for the allocation of resources, and better inform the work of law enforcement agencies as they design and implement intervention and prevention strategies.  

Featured Consulting Projects

• Best Practices in Honduran Policing - Consultant for USAID and Arizona State University (2017-2018).
• Through My Eyes: A Participatory Project on Homelessness - Volunteer Consultant for Chicago Help Initiative (CHI) (2016-2018).

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Featured Media/Talks

• View my appearance on Culture and Crime Talks with host Dr. Sarah Daly to discuss crimmigration and The Real Housewives of New Jersey here.

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