Professor Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Sociology at the University of California, Davis. She
studies inequality in crime, criminal relationships, and criminal
organizations. Her current projects include a study of women in
Prohibition Era organized crime networks and a study on fatal and
non-fatal police shootings.
CPR Faculty Affiliate in Sociology Chris Smith was interviewed on
Capital Public Radio about her research on police violence. She
joined Insight host Beth Ruyak to talk about her research to
build the PACOTE database, which stands for Police and Civilian
Outcomes of Threatening Encounters, which aims to help determine
why some threatening encounters end fatally when others do not.
