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Every month we highlight the work of one of our members through social media and on our website. ​This is the archived list.

07|21

Jacquelynn F. Duron

Title: Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
​Current Institution: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Signature Publication:  “Trauma Exposure and Mental Health Needs Among Adolescents Involved with the Juvenile Justice System.” ​

06|21

Jesus Adrian Campos Valdez

Title: Ph.D. Candidate, Administration of Justice
​Current Institution: Texas Southern University; University of St. Thomas & Lone Star College (current appointments)
Dissertation:  “Examining the Relationship Between LEP Status and Delinquency amongst High Schools Across America.” PhD Candidate 

05|21

Janice Iwama

Title: Assistant Professor; Law, Justice, and Criminology
​Current Institution: American University
Signature Publication:  “Rising Gun Sales in the Wake of Mass Shootings and Gun Legislation”

04|21

John C. Navarro

Title: Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice and Criminology
​Current Institution: Sam Houston State University
Signature Publication:  “Revisiting sex offender registration and notification: Does awareness differ by community context?”

03|21

Kristina M. Lopez

Title: Assistant Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice
​Current Institution: University of North Florida
Signature Publication: Prevalence of Victimization and Exposure to Violence in a
Sample of Hispanic Americans.​

02|21

Brandon P. Martinez 

Title: Doctoral Candidate, Sociology
​Current Institution: University of Miami
Signature Publication:  “Time, Money, and Punishment: Institutional Racial-Ethnic Inequalities in Pretrial Detention and Case Outcomes”

01|21

Serita Whiting

Title: Doctoral Candidate, Juvenile Justice & Psychology
​Current Institution: Prairie View A&M University
Signature Publication: Examining and Expanding Latinx General Strain Theory.

12|20

Daniel Gascón 

Title: Assistant Professor, Sociology
​Current Institution: University of Massachusetts, Boston
Signature Publication:  “The Limits of Community Policing: Civilian Power and Police Accountability​.”
Dr. Gascón on Twitter/Instagram: @profgascon

11|20

Zahra Shekarhar

Title: Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice
​Current Institution: Fayetteville State University
Signature Publication: Out-of-School Suspensions: Counter-Narratives from the Student Perspective.​

10|20

José Torres

Title: Assistant Professor, Sociology
​Current Institution: Louisiana State University
Signature Publication: “Under-policing and apprehensiveness toward stopping minorities across white and nonwhite officers post-Ferguson.”

09|20

Janet Garcia-Hallett

Title: Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice and Criminology
​Current Institution: University of Missouri - Kansas City
Signature Publication: Maternal Identities and Narratives of Motherhood: A Qualitative Exploration of Women’s Pathways Into and Out of Offending.​​

08|20

Adrian H. Huerta

Title: Assistant Professor, Pullias Center for Higher Education, Rossier School of Education
​Current Institution: University of Southern California
Signature Publication:​ College Is . . . : Focusing on the College Knowledge of Gang-Associated Latino Young Men

07|20

Shirley Leyro

Title: Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, Human Services, and Criminal Justice
​Current Institution: Borough of Manhattan Community College
Signature Publication: Crimmigration, Deportability, and the Social Exclusion of Noncitizen Immigrants;  

06|20

Jerry Flores

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
​Current Institution: University of Toronto
Signature Publication: Caught Up: Surveillance and Wraparound Incarceration

05|20

Amy Andrea Martinez

Title: Doctoral Candidate of Criminal Justice
​Current Institution: John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
City University of New York City (CUNY)
Signature Publication: “The city got my back so the city on my Back: Prisoner’s Negation of the States’ Claims of Prisoner’s Humanity” (forthcoming) 

04|20

Jose Antonin Sanchez

Title: Doctoral Student, Department of Sociology
​Current Institution: University of Colorado, Boulder
Signature Publication: “’It Changed my Life’: Traumatic Loss, Behavioral Health, and Turning Points Among Gang-Involved and Justice-Involved Youth”

03|20

April D. Fernandes

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
​Current Institution: North Carolina State University
Signature Publication: On the Job or In the Joint: ​Criminal Justice Contact &
​Employment Outcomes

01|20

Arelys Madero-Hernandez

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice
​Current Institution: Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Signature Publication: ​“Murderers, Rapists, and Bad Hombres”: Deconstructing the Immigration-Crime Myths