Justice • Healing • Leadership

Books & Scholarship

Research & Scholarship

Research and scholarship on criminal justice, race, reentry, family support and the relationship between systems and lived experience.

Featured legal scholarship

The Reasonable Black Person Standard in Criminal Law

Published in 2019 in the Southern Journal of Policy and Justice, this article questions whether a supposedly objective reasonable-person standard can adequately account for materially different racial experiences with policing and the criminal legal system.

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Doctoral research

Keep the Family Close examines the role of positive family support in successful reentry among formerly incarcerated African American men.

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