• Doctoral Fellow

Sino Esthappan

  • Doctoral Fellow
ABF/Northwestern University Doctoral Fellow in Law & Social Science
ABF Researcher

Sino Esthappan is a Doctoral Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and a PhD Candidate at Northwestern University. His research examines how penal institutional change reflects and reproduces social inequalities. His mixed-methods dissertation draws on the case of pretrial risk assessment tools to examine how predictive algorithms shape state punishment processes. He holds degrees from Vassar College, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Northwestern University.