Brenden Beck is a sociologist in the Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice, Newark, New Jersey. He studies policing, city budgets, and housing. His academic work has been published in the Annual Review of Sociology, Social Forces, Criminology & Public Policy, and elsewhere. His general-interest writing has appeared in Slate, the New York Daily News, and The Appeal. He is currently researching how institutional landlords increase housing costs, how social spending reduces crime, and how automated traffic enforcement reduces vehicle collisions.
His website : https://brendenbeck.net