Research

“State Integration and Violence at the Margins: The Logic of Police Raids in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas.” Howard Journal of Crime and Justice. Early view. 2025.

"Laying the BRICS for a reshaped global order.” Co-authored with Sophie Egar. East Asia Forum. Vol. 7. 2023.

Bouchard, J. “Political Violence as Affective Violence: The Murder of Marielle Franco.” Drafting for Violence Against Women. 2026.

Bouchard J., Filho, H., and Moore, H. “The Police-Prison Apparatus: Hyper-Lethal Policing and Low Incarceration in Bahia, Brazil.” Under review by International Criminology. 2026.

Bouchard, J. “Las Elecciones de 2025 y el Desalineamiento de Clases Bajo el Movimiento al Socialismo en Bolivia.” Under review by MURURATA: Revista de Ciencias Sociales. 2026.

Bouchard, J. “State of Death: Police Lethality and Political Pressures Under the Workers’ Party in Bahia, Brazil.” In revision stage with Theoretical Criminology. 2026.

Bouchard, J. “Solidarity or Revolt? Brazil and South-South Cooperation Under Rousseff, Bolsonaro, and Lula.” In revision stage with the Lomonosov World Politics Journal. 2026.

Bouchard, J. “The State, Popular Power and Socialist Comunas in Venezuela: From Chavez to Integration.” Drafting. 2026.

Bouchard, J., and Frankel, G. “Public Insecurity and School Choice: Evidence from Bahia, Brazil.” Drafting for Journal of School Choice. 

“The 2025 Presidential Election, Race and Class, and Voting Saliency,” presented as an invited guest speaker to the Department of Sociology (August 4, 2026) at the Universidad Pública de El Alto in El Alto, Bolivia.

“Latin America Turns Right: What Canada Needs to Know,” invited speaker on a panel of Canadian experts on Latin America (June 25, 2026) at the Canadian International Council in Ottawa, Canada.

“The 2025 Elections, Qamirismo, and Identity Politics in Bolivia,” presented as an invited guest speaker to the Department of History (June 17, 2026) at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz, Bolivia.

“The State, Popular Power, and Socialist Communas in Venezuela: From Chavez to Integration,” presented as an invited guest speaker to the Faculty of Social Sciences (May 14, 2026) at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia.

“The Murder of Marielle Franco and the Psychology of Political Violence,” presented at the Borders and Boundaries Conference at the Karsh Institute of Democracy (May 1, 2026) at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.

“Articulating Indigenous-Socialist Identity: Aymara Women, the MAS Revolution, and the 2025 Bolivian Election,” presented as a research poster to the course Identity and the State (April 23, 2026) at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.

“Venezuela’s Socialist Comunas and Democracy,” presented at the annual awardee conference of the Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation (April 8, 2026) at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.

“State of Death: Political Incentives and Police Lethality Under the Workers’ Party in Bahia, Brazil,” presented to the Latin America Research Working Group (March 11, 2026) at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.

“A Prison’s Worth of Killings: The Prison-Police Nexus in Bahia, Brazil,” presented alongside Dr. Hollis Moore (Carleton University) and Hosanah Filho (Federal University of Bahia) on a panel about policing at the International Conference on Punishment in Global Peripheries (December 12, 2025) at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa.

“Solidarity or Revolt? Brazil and South-South Cooperation Under Dilma, Bolsonaro, and Lula,” presented on a panel about rising powers and the international system at the First International Conference for Rethinking International Relations in an Age of Uncertainty (November 14, 2025) at Hong Kong Chu Hai College in Hong Kong, HKSAR.

“State of Death: Political Pressures and Police Lethality in Bahia, Brazil,” presented on a panel about punishment at the Symposium for Research in International Relations (November 10, 2025) at the São Paulo State University in São Paulo, Brazil.

“The Comunas System, Popular Power, and Clientelism in Venezuela Under the PSUV,” presented to the Latin America Working Group at the University of Virginia Department of Politics (November 4, 2025) in Charlottesville, Virginia.

“The Appropriation of South-South Cooperation by Great Powers: A Case Study of Brazil,” presented on a panel about multilateralism and international relations theory at the Congress of the Colombian Network on International Relations (October 8, 2025) at Icesi University in Cali, Colombia.

“Public Insecurity and Private Schooling in Bahia, Brazil,” presented alongside Gary Frankel (Texas A&M University) at the International School Choice and Reform Conference (January 18, 2025) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

“When Police Kill More: Police Lethality and Public Security in Bahia,” presented to students and faculty at the Federal University of Bahia as a guest speaker (November 21, 2024) in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.

“Russia’s Interests in the Andes,” presented to a group of military staffers and leaders at the Centro de Estudios Estratégicos del Ejército del Perú for a visit (September 16, 2024) in Lima, Peru.

“The Paradox of Progressive Governance and Police Violence in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil,” presented on a panel on policing and prisons for the Canadian Association for Latin American Studies Annual Congress (May 29, 2024) in Montreal, Canada.

“Peru’s Great Power Landscape,” presented to a group of military staffers and leaders at the Centro de Estudio Estratégicos del Ejército del Perú for a visit (February 13, 2024) in Lima, Peru.

Bouchard, J. “Review of Policing on Drugs: The United States, Mexico, and the Origins of the Modern Drug War, 1969–2000.” Provisionally accepted by Mexican Studies (University of California Press). 2026.

Bouchard, J. “Review of The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home.” Book review. Review of Political Economy. 2026.

Bouchard, J. “Review of Tren de Aragua: The Guide to America’s Growing Criminal Threat.” Book review. The Latin Americanist (University of North Carolina Press). Vol. 69. No. 4. 2025.

Bouchard, J. “Review of Under the Weight of Penalty.” Book review (in Portuguese). Latin American Review of Scientific Studies (Federal University of Espírito Santo Press). Vol. 6. No. 27. 2025.