Research Expertise and Interest

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

Research Description

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.