For the past fifty years, America has been extraordinarily busy building prisons. Since 1970
we have tripled the total number of facilities, adding more than 1,200 new prisons to the …

Research on police—citizen relations is largely centered on how police officers treat
citizens, with much less attention given to how citizens behave toward officers or how they …

It has been proposed that hiring more Black police officers is an effective way to alleviate
long-standing tensions between police and African Americans because Black officers will …

Femicide, the murder of females (most often at the hands of males), is an understudied area
in homicide research. Furthermore, femicide perpetrated by females has been all but …

Black male homicide has reached crisis proportions. This study investigated homicidal
incidents to assess associations of Cool Pose with Black male homicides. Cool Pose is a …

This dissertation examines how direct and vicarious victimization shape the bereavement,
coping strategies and quality of life outcomes of low-income, street-identified Black women …

Activity spaces describe the physical area typically encountered by an individual person
during his or her routine daily activities. Activity spaces encompass a person's anchor points …

This article examines city residents' reported experiences with and perceptions of various
forms of police misconduct as well as their perspectives on two types of accountability …

Many states and municipalities prohibit registered sex offenders from residing near schools
or other places where children gather. Such residence restrictions are employed in order to …

Despite the fact that serial murder is committed by multiple of killer types, males, females,
straight, homosexual, Whites, Asians, African Americans to name a few, the myth remains …