Research Bio

David Harding studies poverty and inequality, urban neighborhoods, education, incarceration, and prisoner reentry. He uses both qualitative and quantitative methods. 

Harding is the author or co-author of: Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings (Basic Books, 2004),  Living the Drama: Conflict, and Culture Among Inner-City Boys (Chicago, 2010), On the Outside: Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration (Chicago, 2019), and After Prison: Navigating Adulthood in the Shadow of the Justice System (Russell Sage, 2020) and the co-editor of volumes of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on Reconsidering Culture and Poverty (2010) and From Supervision to Opportunity: Reimagining Probation and Parole (2022). 

Harding is the Co-Director of the Computational Social Science Training Program (NIH T32) and the PI of a National Science Foundation Research Training Program on Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System. 

Research Expertise and Interest

poverty, inequality, causal inference, mixed methods, incarceration, prisoner reentry, education, neighborhoods, urban, community, adolescence, public impact research/scholarship