Education

PhD, Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida

Research and Teaching Interests

Green Criminology
Environmental Justice
Appalachia
Mass Incarceration
Drugs and Society

Select Publications

Greenberg, Pierce and Robert Todd Perdue. 2024. “Prisons and Pollution: A Nationwide Analysis of Carceral Environmental Inequality.” Social Problems. 72(2), 783-801.

*Outstanding Publication Award. American Sociology Association: Environmental Sociology Section

Perdue, Robert Todd. 2024. “Disposable People in Toxic Texas: ICE Detention Centers and Federal Prisons as Pollution Outliers.” In, Exploitation and Criminalization at the Margins: The Hidden Toll on Unvalued Lives. Edited by Taryn VanderPyl and Shanell Sanchez. Lexington Books.

Perdue, Robert Todd. 2024. “Fighting Ecoterrorism or Fighting Dissent? State and Corporate Actors as Perpetrators of Hate Crimes” In, Research Handbook on Hate and Hate Crimes. Edited by James Hawdon and Matthew Costello. Edward Elger Publishing.

Cavazos, Robert and Robert Todd Perdue. 2024. “Who’s Draining the Ogallala Aquifer? Exploring the Consequences of Incomplete Data.” Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 1-7.

Perdue, Robert Todd. 2023. “Trashing Appalachia: Coal, Prisons and Whiteness in a Region of Refuse.” Punishment & Society 25(1), 21-41.

*Punishment & Society Article of the Year

Perdue, Robert Todd. 2021. “Who Needs the Dark Web? Exploring the Trade in Critically Endangered Plants on eBay.” American Journal of Criminal Justice 46(6), 1006-1017.

Perdue, Robert Todd. 2021. “Corporate Violence in the Central Appalachian Coal Industry: From Roots to Repercussions.” Critical Criminology 29, 897-913. 

Perdue, Robert Todd. 2018. “Linking Environmental and Criminal Injustice: The Mining to Prison Pipeline in Central Appalachia.” Environmental Justice 11(5): 177-182.

Perdue, Robert Todd and Kenneth Sanchagrin. 2016. “Imprisoning Appalachia: The Socioeconomic Impacts of Prison Development.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 23(2): 210-223.

Perdue, Robert Todd and Gregory Pavela. 2012. “Addictive Economies and Methods of Extraction: Coal Dependency and Socioeconomic Outcomes in West Virginia: 1997-2009.” Organization & Environment 25(4): 368-384.