Biography
Caylin Louis Moore is a doctoral candidate in Stanford University’s sociology department and a Ford Foundation Fellow. Moore’s research agenda utilizes geospatial, quantitative, and qualitative methods to analyze criminal justice policy, law, policing, spatial inequality, and neighborhood change. His dissertation, Under Pressure: The Lifecycle of Criminal Classification, utilizes over two years of ethnographic research at California incarceration reentry programs and in-depth interviews with nearly 100 formerly incarcerated men and women to analyze how the state (co)creates criminal status in its inhabitants. An emergent empirical article from the broader project extends research on collateral consequences and criminal courts by revealing previously uncovered mechanisms that prompt pre-trial detainees to adopt plea agreements at higher rates and under worse terms than their free counterparts. Moore’s research has received awards from several professional societies, including the American Sociological Association and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. He holds an MSc in Latin American studies from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2017 Rhodes Scholar. He received his BS in economics from Texas Christian University in 2017. Moore is the author of an award-winning book, A Dream Too Big: The Story of An Improbable Journey from Compton to Oxford.
