Melissa Barragan

507 total citations
20 papers, 307 citations indexed

About

Melissa Barragan is a scholar working on Education, Sociology and Political Science and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Melissa Barragan has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 307 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Education, 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Melissa Barragan's work include Higher Education Research Studies (6 papers), Gun Ownership and Violence Research (5 papers) and Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 papers). Melissa Barragan is often cited by papers focused on Higher Education Research Studies (6 papers), Gun Ownership and Violence Research (5 papers) and Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 papers). Melissa Barragan collaborates with scholars based in United States. Melissa Barragan's co-authors include Keramet Reiter, Dallas Augustine, Zawadi Rucks‐Ahidiana, Thomas Blair, Joseph Ventura, David Lovell, George Tita, Shanna Smith Jaggars, Di Xu and Nikki Edgecombe and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, American Journal of Public Health and Social Problems.

In The Last Decade

Melissa Barragan

19 papers receiving 257 citations

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Tyson Whitten Australia

Drorit Levy Israel

Siobhán McAlister United Kingdom

Cassandra Dorius United States

Linda Son United States

Curtis Skinner United States

Cynthia Ramirez United States

C. Malik Boykin United States

Mark Alden Morgan United States

Ericka S. Weathers United States

Tyson Whitten Australia

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20 of 20 papers shown

Reiter, Keramet, et al.. (2025). Against optimization: Solitary confinement and the research-policy nexus. Journal of Criminal Justice. 99. 102470–102470.

Barragan, Melissa, et al.. (2023). Deconstructing the Power Dynamics of Prison Research. The Prison Journal. 103(6). 769–790. 1 indexed citations

Barragan, Melissa, et al.. (2022). Triaged Out of Care: How Carceral Logics Complicate a ‘Course of Care’ in Solitary Confinement. Healthcare. 10(2). 289–289. 6 indexed citations

Augustine, Dallas, et al.. (2021). Window dressing: possibilities and limitations of incremental changes in solitary confinement. Health & Justice. 9(1). 21–21. 5 indexed citations

Barragan, Melissa. (2021). Policing and Punishing Illegal Gun Behavior: An Examination of Jail Detainee Experiences with Gun Law Enforcement In Los Angeles. Social Problems. 69(4). 1170–1187. 3 indexed citations

Reiter, Keramet, Joseph Ventura, David Lovell, et al.. (2020). Psychological Distress in Solitary Confinement: Symptoms, Severity, and Prevalence in the United States, 2017–2018. American Journal of Public Health. 110(S1). S56–S62. 86 indexed citations

Reiter, Keramet, et al.. (2020). The body in isolation: The physical health impacts of incarceration in solitary confinement. PLoS ONE. 15(10). e0238510–e0238510. 31 indexed citations

Matthay, Ellicott C., Kara E. Rudolph, Scott C. Zimmerman, et al.. (2019). Firearm and Nonfirearm Violence After Operation Peacemaker Fellowship in Richmond, California, 1996–2016. American Journal of Public Health. 109(11). 1605–1611. 24 indexed citations

Barragan, Melissa, et al.. (2017). Experiences of Earned Success: Community College Students' Shifts in College Confidence.. International journal on teaching and learning in higher education. 29(3). 501–510. 10 indexed citations

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Barragan, Melissa, et al.. (2017). Prohibited Possessors and the Law: How Inmates in Los Angeles Jails Understand Firearm and Ammunition Regulations. RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 3(5). 141–163. 3 indexed citations

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Barragan, Melissa, et al.. (2016). Not an ‘iron pipeline’, but many capillaries: regulating passive transactions in Los Angeles' secondary, illegal gun market. Injury Prevention. 23(4). 226–231. 19 indexed citations

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Barragan, Melissa, et al.. (2015). “Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t”. Criminal Justice and Behavior. 43(1). 140–155. 17 indexed citations

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Jaggars, Shanna Smith, et al.. (2014). Accelerating the Integrated Instruction of Developmental Reading and Writing at Chabot College. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 21 indexed citations

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Edgecombe, Nikki, et al.. (2013). Strengthening Developmental Education Reforms: Evidence on Implementation Efforts from the Scaling Innovation Project. CCRC Working Paper No. 61.. 8 indexed citations

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Barragan, Melissa, et al.. (2013). Strengthening Developmental Education Reforms: Evidence on Implementation Efforts From the Scaling Innovation Project. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 27 indexed citations

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Barragan, Melissa, et al.. (2013). Enhancing Rigor in Developmental Education. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 1(4). 1–5. 6 indexed citations

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Barragan, Melissa, et al.. (2012). "I Came in Unsure of Everything": Community College Students' Shifts in Confidence. CCRC Working Paper No. 48.. 6 indexed citations

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Karp, Melinda Mechur, et al.. (2012). College 101 Courses for Applied Learning and Student Success. CCRC Working Paper No. 49.. 11 indexed citations

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Karp, Melinda Jane Mechur, et al.. (2012). College 101 Courses for Applied Learning and Student Success. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 17 indexed citations

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Barragan, Melissa, et al.. (2012). "I Came in Unsure of Everything": Community College Students' Shifts in Confidence. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 6 indexed citations

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