Personal profile
About
Marisa Omori received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in Criminology, Law & Society. Prior to joining the faculty at UMSL, she worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Miami. Her research focuses on the racialization of crime control, including racial inequality within criminal justice institutions, courts and sentencing, and punishment and social control. Specifically, her work investigates questions of how racial inequality is created and maintained within the criminal justice system, and how context and place matters for this inequality.
New UMSL faculty member 2019.
Related documents
Research Interests
- Racial Inequality in Criminal Justice
- Courts and Sentencing
- Punishment and Social Control
Disciplines
- Criminology
-
A theoretical and empirical critique of racial innocence in sentencing
Omori, M., Early, A. M. & Torres, L., Mar 21 2025, In: Law & Society Review. 59, 2, p. 382-418 37 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
-
Revisiting the Use of Total Incarceration Variables in Understanding Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing
Yan, S., Montes, A. N., Omori, M., Petersen, N. & Spohn, C., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Crime and Delinquency. 00111287251344534.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
-
Correction to: Long-Term Dynamics of Neighborhoods and Crime: The Role of Education Over 40 Years (Journal of Quantitative Criminology, (2021), 10.1007/s10940-021-09528-3)
Boessen, A., Omori, M. & Greene, C., Mar 2023, In: Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 39, 1, p. 251-252 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Open Access -
Detecting racial inequalities in criminal justice: towards an equitable deep learning approach for generating and interpreting racial categories using mugshots
Dass, R. K., Petersen, N., Omori, M., Lave, T. R. & Visser, U., 2022, In: AI & SOCIETY.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
-
Organizational Practice and Neighborhood Context of Racial Inequality in Police Use-of-Force
Omori, M., Lautenschlager, R. & Stoler, J., 2022, In: Social Problems.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review