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American Journal of Community Psychology
The history of slavery in America shapes the experience of incarceration for Black people and mus... more The history of slavery in America shapes the experience of incarceration for Black people and must therefore inform strategies to remediate institutional harms. This brief sets forth guiding values and recommendations for grounding prison research in principles of racial equity. These values are intended to help researchers more accurately capture and measure racial biases, and design and conduct research that can elevate and disrupt systemic biases. This brief is part of a larger research agenda for the Prison Research and Innovation Initiative—a five-year effort to leverage research and evidence to shine a much-needed light on prison conditions and pilot strategies to promote the well-being of people who live and work behind bars
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, 2015
Journal of Health Care For the Poor and Underserved, 2015
Because we previously identified high rates of past TBI among adolescents arriving in the New Yor... more Because we previously identified high rates of past TBI among adolescents arriving in the New York City (NYC) jail system we engaged adolescents in nine TBI focus groups to characterize better the level of understanding regarding the relationship between TBI and violence. During these groups, the following themes emerged: 1) physical and psychological impacts of violence; 2) roots of violence; 3) the use of violence as capital in the face of a marginalized social status; and 4) the inevitability of violence, particularly in a jail setting. Although these focus groups were initiated as a means to engage adolescents around the clinical problem of TBI, their observations are strongly centered in the larger context of violence. These results suggest that intervening in the problem of TBI among our patients will require broad-based changes in the environmental and interpersonal realities, both in the jail setting, and the communities where these adolescents reside.
The Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Mar 1, 2016
American Journal of Community Psychology
The history of slavery in America shapes the experience of incarceration for Black people and mus... more The history of slavery in America shapes the experience of incarceration for Black people and must therefore inform strategies to remediate institutional harms. This brief sets forth guiding values and recommendations for grounding prison research in principles of racial equity. These values are intended to help researchers more accurately capture and measure racial biases, and design and conduct research that can elevate and disrupt systemic biases. This brief is part of a larger research agenda for the Prison Research and Innovation Initiative—a five-year effort to leverage research and evidence to shine a much-needed light on prison conditions and pilot strategies to promote the well-being of people who live and work behind bars
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, 2015
Journal of Health Care For the Poor and Underserved, 2015
Because we previously identified high rates of past TBI among adolescents arriving in the New Yor... more Because we previously identified high rates of past TBI among adolescents arriving in the New York City (NYC) jail system we engaged adolescents in nine TBI focus groups to characterize better the level of understanding regarding the relationship between TBI and violence. During these groups, the following themes emerged: 1) physical and psychological impacts of violence; 2) roots of violence; 3) the use of violence as capital in the face of a marginalized social status; and 4) the inevitability of violence, particularly in a jail setting. Although these focus groups were initiated as a means to engage adolescents around the clinical problem of TBI, their observations are strongly centered in the larger context of violence. These results suggest that intervening in the problem of TBI among our patients will require broad-based changes in the environmental and interpersonal realities, both in the jail setting, and the communities where these adolescents reside.
The Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Mar 1, 2016