The Politics & Inequalities of Policing
Cheng, Tony. 2024. The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input. (University of Chicago Press) [PDF Notes]
Koehler, Johann & Tony Cheng. 2023. “Settling Institutional Uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1862-1923.” Criminology 61(3):518-545. [PDF]
Cheng, Tony. 2022. “The Cumulative Discretion of Police over Community Complaints.” American Journal of Sociology 127(6):1782–1817. [PDF]
Cheng, Tony & Jennifer Qu. 2022. “Regulatory Intermediaries and the Challenge of Democratic Policing.” Criminology & Public Policy 21(1):59-81. [PDF]
Cheng, Tony. 2020. “Input Without Influence: The Silence and Scripts of Police and Community Relations.” Social Problems 67(1): 171-189. [PDF]
State Power & Social Media
Cheng, Tony. 2022. “Racialized Policing in the Social Media Age.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(49): e2216978119 (invited commentary). [PDF]
Cheng, Tony. 2021. “Social Media, Socialization, and Pursuing Legitimation of Police Violence.” Criminology 59(3):391–418. [PDF]
Liu, Shelley & Tony Cheng. “How Online Media Shapes Polarization Towards Policing.” (Funded with RSF Pipeline Grant)
Cheng, Tony. “Digital Omissions and the Racialized Erasure of Police Violence.” (draft available)
Urban Violence & Service Provision
Papachristos, Andrew, Noli Brazil, & Tony Cheng. 2018. “Understanding the Crime Gap: Violence and Inequality in an American City.” City & Community 17(4): 1051-1074. [PDF]
Cheng, Tony. 2018. “Recruitment Through Rule-Breaking: Establishing Social Ties with Gang Members.” City & Community 17(1): 150-169. [PDF]
Cheng, Tony & Shelley Liu. 2018. “Service Cynicism: How Civic Disengagement Develops.” Politics & Society 46(1): 101-129. [PDF]
Cheng, Tony. 2017. “Violence Prevention and Targeting the Elusive Gang Member.” Law & Society Review 51(1): 42-69. [PDF]