Christian Law

Christian Law is a doctoral student at Northeastern University in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. His research and teaching interests center on the intersections of race, crime, politics, and punishment. Specifically, he examines how perceptions of threat – whether to racial privilege, gender hierarchies, or other group statuses – shape how the public understands and reacts to policing, punishment, political events, and broader policy debates. His dissertation explores how Americans make sense of race, crime, and policing in this unique moment marked by unprecedented antiracist sentiment alongside an increasingly racialized political climate. He has co-authored a paper with Kevin Drakulich that was published in Social Forces which examines how perceived threats to White privilege, male privilege, and centrally the intersection of both, shapes desires for aggressive policing of Black Lives Matter protests. He also recently co-authored a paper, published in a special issue of Race and Justice on W.E.B. Du Bois and Criminology, which finds that economically insecure White Americans are especially likely to oppose schools teaching about racism. In addition to his research roles, Christian has been a teaching assistant for over two years and will begin teaching a course titled “Crime, Media, and Politics” in the Fall of 2025.