Jake Monaghan

I’m an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy at the University at Buffalo. My research mostly concerns the political philosophy of policing and cities.

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Articles

2026

2025

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2022

2023

Just Policing. Oxford University Press.

Review by Daniel Muñoz in Ethics.

Root causes and police abolition

Journal of Public Policy, (2026). (Winner of the 3PI Best Paper Prize, 2025).

Territory without Turf

Political Philosophy (2025).

Down and Out in the Liberal Archipelago

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2025).

Putting the ‘Structural’ Back in ‘Structural Injustice

A reply to Estlund, (with Kirun Sankaran) Ethics 135/5 (2025): 545-559.

Idealizations and ideal policing

Philosophers’ Imprint 22/9 (2022).