| Equal opportunity law and the construction of internal labor markets F Dobbin, JR Sutton, JW Meyer, R Scott American journal of Sociology 99 (2), 396-427, 1993 | 970 | 1993 |
| The strength of a weak state: The rights revolution and the rise of human resources management divisions F Dobbin, JR Sutton American journal of sociology 104 (2), 441-476, 1998 | 888 | 1998 |
| The legalization of the workplace JR Sutton, F Dobbin, JW Meyer, WR Scott American Journal of Sociology 99 (4), 944-971, 1994 | 590 | 1994 |
| The two faces of governance: Responses to legal uncertainty in US firms, 1955 to 1985 JR Sutton, F Dobbin American Sociological Review, 794-811, 1996 | 363 | 1996 |
| The political economy of imprisonment in affluent western democracies, 1960–1990 JR Sutton American Sociological Review 69 (2), 170-189, 2004 | 306 | 2004 |
| Stubborn children: Controlling delinquency in the United States, 1640-1981 J Sutton Univ of California Press, 1988 | 283 | 1988 |
| Imprisonment and social classification in five common-law democracies, 1955–1985 JR Sutton American Journal of Sociology 106 (2), 350-386, 2000 | 219 | 2000 |
| Structural bias in the sentencing of felony defendants JR Sutton Social Science Research 42 (5), 1207-1221, 2013 | 169 | 2013 |
| Law/society: Origins, interactions, and change J Sutton Pine Forge Press, 2001 | 165 | 2001 |
| The political economy of madness: The expansion of the asylum in progressive America JR Sutton American Sociological Review, 665-678, 1991 | 102 | 1991 |
| The problem of control in the weak state: Domination in the United States, 1880-1920 GG Hamilton, JR Sutton Theory and Society, 1-46, 1989 | 99 | 1989 |
| Exploring the social sources of denominationalism: Schisms in American Protestant denominations, 1890-1980 RC Liebman, JR Sutton, R Wuthnow American Sociological Review, 343-352, 1988 | 92 | 1988 |
| Symbol and substance: Effects of California's three strikes law on felony sentencing JR Sutton Law & Society Review 47 (1), 37-71, 2013 | 72 | 2013 |
| Explaining schism in American Protestant denominations, 1890–1990 JR Sutton, M Chaves Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 43 (2), 171-190, 2004 | 59 | 2004 |
| The juvenile court and social welfare: Dynamics of progressive reform JR Sutton Law and Society Review, 107-145, 1985 | 59 | 1985 |
| Organizational autonomy and professional norms in science: a case study of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory JR Sutton Social Studies of Science 14 (2), 197-224, 1984 | 58 | 1984 |
| Bureaucrats and entrepreneurs: Institutional responses to deviant children in the United States, 1890-1920s JR Sutton American Journal of Sociology 95 (6), 1367-1400, 1990 | 52 | 1990 |
| The transformation of prison regimes in late capitalist societies JR Sutton American Journal of Sociology 119 (3), 715-746, 2013 | 50 | 2013 |
| Rethinking social control JR Sutton Law & Social Inquiry 21 (4), 943-958, 1996 | 48 | 1996 |
| Doing time: dynamics of imprisonment in the reformist state JR Sutton American Sociological Review, 612-630, 1987 | 44 | 1987 |
