| Everyday surveillance: Vigilance and visibility in postmodern life WG Staples Rowman & Littlefield, 2013 | 448 | 2013 |
| The culture of surveillance: Discipline and social control in the United States WG Staples (No Title), 1997 | 264 | 1997 |
| Narrative analysis and the new historical sociology KF Gotham, WG Staples Sociological Quarterly 37 (3), 481-501, 1996 | 134 | 1996 |
| “Humane” immigration enforcement and Latina immigrants in the detention complex A Gómez Cervantes, C Menjívar, WG Staples Feminist Criminology 12 (3), 269-292, 2017 | 60 | 2017 |
| Encyclopedia of privacy WG Staples Greenwood Press, 2007 | 54 | 2007 |
| Castles of Our Conscience: Social Control and the American State 1800-1985 WG Staples John Wiley & Sons, 2018 | 51 | 2018 |
| Producing evaluative knowledge: The interactional bases of social science findings JA Holstein, WG Staples Sociological Inquiry 62 (1), 11-35, 1992 | 29 | 1992 |
| Law and social control in juvenile justice dispositions WG Staples Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 24 (1), 7-22, 1987 | 29 | 1987 |
| Between the ‘home’and ‘institutional’worlds: Tensions and contradictions in the practice of house arrest WG Staples, SK Decker Critical Criminology 18, 1-20, 2010 | 28 | 2010 |
| Small acts of cunning: Disciplinary practices in contemporary life WG Staples The Sociological Quarterly 35 (4), 645-664, 1994 | 28 | 1994 |
| Seen but unseen: Part-time faculty and institutional surveillance and control D Krier, WG Staples The American Sociologist 24 (3), 119-134, 1993 | 26 | 1993 |
| Technology, control, and the social organization of work at a British hardware firm, 1791-1891 WG Staples American Journal of Sociology 93 (1), 62-88, 1987 | 26 | 1987 |
| Technologies of the body, technologies of the self: House arrest as neo-liberal governance WG Staples, SK Decker Surveillance and governance: Crime control and beyond, 131-149, 2008 | 22 | 2008 |
| The everyday world of house arrest: Collateral consequences for families and others WG Staples Civil penalties, social consequences, 139-159, 2013 | 21 | 2013 |
| Restitution as a sanction in juvenile court WG Staples Crime & Delinquency 32 (2), 177-185, 1986 | 16 | 1986 |
| “Where are you and what are you doing?” Familial “back-up work” as a collateral consequence of house arrest WG Staples Who’s watching, 33-53, 2009 | 15 | 2009 |
| Dual-careerism and the conjoint-career couple PA Alder, P Adler, CR Ahrons, MS Perlmutter, WG Staples, CAB Warren The American Sociologist 20, 207-226, 1989 | 15 | 1989 |
| Fieldwork in forbidden terrain: The state, privatization and human subjects regulations CAB Warren, WG Staples The American Sociologist 20 (3), 263-277, 1989 | 14 | 1989 |
| Power, profits, and patriarchy: The social organization of work at a British metal trades firm, 1791-1922 WG Staples, CL Staples Rowman & Littlefield, 2001 | 13 | 2001 |
| Negotiating workplace surveillance BL Zirkle, WG Staples Electronic monitoring in the workplace: Controversies and solutions, 79-100, 2005 | 11 | 2005 |
