Alex Roehrkasse

Hello! I'm a sociologist whose research focuses on inequality, crime and punishment, families and children, and quantitative and historical methods. I am especially interested in the ways that families interact with the criminal-legal and child-welfare systems, with consequences for racial, class, and gender inequality. I also work on developing new, large-scale sources of longitudinal administrative data.

I'm currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology & Criminology at Butler University. I received my Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019. My research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Demography, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science Advances, Social Forces, and other leading journals.