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Tara Opsal

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Publications

15

Citations

802

H-Index

15

Active since

2007

Affiliations

Colorado State University(Current)

University of Northern Iowa

Park University

University of Wisconsin–Whitewater

University of South Florida

Tara Opsal is an author at Colorado State University specializing in social sciences, law, and criminal law.

Top concepts

Social SciencesLawCriminal LawCriminal JusticeSociologyPenologyGenderBlack StudiesDecarcerationSocial Justice

Publications per year

2007–2020

15

Publications

15

Participants’ experiences of the qualitative interview: considering the importance of research paradigms

Jennifer R. Wolgemuth, Zeynep Erdil-Moody, Tara Opsal et al. · Qualitative Research · 2014 · 115 citations · Full text

Social Research, Qualitative Interview, Performance Studies +12

‘Livin’ on the Straights’: Identity, Desistance, and Work among Women Post‐Incarceration*

Tara Opsal · Sociological Inquiry · 2012 · 112 citations

Women's Right, Queer Theory, Social Sciences +20

Women Disrupting a Marginalized Identity: Subverting the Parolee Identity through Narrative

Tara Opsal · Journal of Contemporary Ethnography · 2011 · 104 citations

Narrative And Identity, Marginalized Identity, Social Sciences +16

Energy Crime, Harm, and Problematic State Response in Colorado: A Case of the Fox Guarding the Hen House?

Tara Opsal, Tara O’Connor Shelley · Critical Criminology · 2014 · 63 citations

Public Policy, Environmental Law, Energy Law +8

“Punishment on the Installment Plan”

Sara Steen, Tara Opsal · The Prison Journal · 2007 · 62 citations

Criminal Code, Prison Populations, Law +17

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