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Nick Petersen

Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology
University of Miami

Nick Petersen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Miami, where he also holds a secondary appointment in the School of Law. His research focuses on racial and ethnic inequalities within the criminal justice system, including disparities in pretrial detention, prosecutorial charging, sentencing, policing, and capital and non-capital cases.

Nick has served as an expert in several California Racial Justice Act cases, ranging from misdemeanors to capital cases, with particular expertise in special circumstance cases involving life without parole and death sentences. He earned his Ph.D. in Criminology, Law & Society from the University of California, Irvine, and his B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His forthcoming book on racial and ethnic inequalities in the criminal justice system will be published by New York University Press.