Sarah Brayne

Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology
Stanford University
Sarah Brayne is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on surveillance, technology, punishment, organizations, and inequality. She uses qualitative and quantitative methods to understand whether and how data-intensive surveillance shapes individual trajectories and population-level disparities. Her first book, Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing (Oxford University Press), draws on ethnographic research within the Los Angeles Police Department to understand the social implications of law enforcement’s use of predictive analytics and new surveillance technologies.