Criminology and Justice Studies
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Barnes, M. L. (2016). Empirical methods and critical race theory: A discourse on possibilities for a hybrid methodology.听Wisconsin Law Review, 2016(3), 445鈥476.
- Barnes traces the origins and assesses the progress of the empirical methods and critical race theory (e-CRT) movement. E-CRT rethinks race scholarship 鈥渋n a manner that reflected the theoretical orientation put forward by critical race scholarship and also embraced the methodological contributions of social science research.鈥
Blount-Hill, K.-L., & St. John, V. (2017).听.听Race and Justice, 7(2), 110鈥126. https://doi.org/10.1177/2153368716688741
- Studies bear out that 鈥淎frican Americans are drastically underrepresented in criminology and criminal justice doctoral programs and that, once admitted, they have lower-than-average rates of completion. Through auto-ethnographic narratives, this article 鈥渆xplores the ways in which criminology and criminal justice have adopted and reinforced a professional culture that may be incongruent with that of most Black academics.鈥 Borrowing from CRT tenets, the authors examine how the field 鈥渋mposes criteria for success counter to the cultural orientation of many African Americans.鈥
Bridges, K. M. (2002).听.听Columbia Law Review, 102(1), 123鈥167. https://doi.org/10.2307/1123632
- Through a CRT lens, Bridges analyzes the impact that a market in fetal tissue will have on Black women, who are more likely to participate in such a market due to their precarious economic situation, their higher abortion rate, and the effects of internalized oppression.
Brooks, R. L., & Newborn, M. J. (1994).听听California Law Review, 82(4), 787鈥845. https://doi.org/10.2307/3480932
- By comparing CRT鈥檚 treatment of civil rights law with the accounts given by two types of 鈥渃lassical-liberals鈥: 鈥渢raditionalists鈥 and 鈥渞eformists,鈥 the authors account for CRT鈥檚 value in modern civil rights discourse.
Chang, R. S. (1994). Toward an Asian American legal scholarship: Critical race theory, post-structuralism, and narrative space.听Asian Law Journal, 1, 1-84.
- 鈥淭raditional civil rights work and current critical race scholarship fail to address the unique issues for Asian Americans, including nativistic racism and the model minority myth.鈥 Chang argues for a post-structural basis for Asian American legal scholarship, which acknowledges the tremendous diversity among the disempowered but which also recognizes that it is through solidarity that Asian Americans will gain the freedom to express their diversity.
Coleman, L. G. (2015). Exploited at the intersection: A critical race feminist analysis of undocumented Latina workers and the role of the private attorney general.听Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law, 22(3), 397鈥433.
- Undocumented Latina workers experience wage theft and other workplace exploitation at alarmingly high rates. Coleman applies a critical race feminist analysis to the workplace exploitation of undocumented Latina workers 鈥渂y exploring cultural narratives that may impact how workers experience workplace exploitation and how they respond to exploitation.鈥 Given the importance of private enforcement of this country鈥檚 wage and hour statutes, Coleman positions 鈥減rivate attorneys general, and their role as storytellers, as critical to the enforcement of Latina workers鈥 rights and argues that the collaboration of organizations and attorneys is necessary to achieve that end.鈥
Crenshaw, K. W. (2011). Twenty years of critical race theory: Looking back to move forward.听Connecticut Law Review, 43(5), 1253鈥1352.
- Crenshaw revisits CRT history through a prism that highlights its historical articulation in light of the emergence of post-racialism. She posits that 鈥渢he post-racial turn presents conditions that are both parallel to and distinct from those that prevailed during CRTs formative years, and that the challenge of a contemporary CRT is to synthesize a transdisciplinary critique and counter-narrative to the post-racial settlement.鈥
Crichlow, V. J. (2017).听.听Race and Justice, 7(2), 179鈥195. https://doi.org/10.1177/2153368716687624
- This article uses a narrative approach to explore Black identity and alienation in the academy. Using CRT as a framework, Crichlow discusses 鈥渢he dearth of Black criminologists and the potential consequences of the underrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities in higher education. Crichlow also discusses the difficulties of navigating a tenure-track career in criminology and criminal justice while deconstructing the burden and responsibility of representing 鈥楤lackness鈥 in a predominantly White field.
Crosby, S. D. (2016).听.听Juvenile and Family Court Journal, 67(1), 5鈥18. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfcj.12052
- This paper explores 鈥渢rauma-informed approaches from a CRT perspective to address issues of systemic racial injustice in the juvenile justice system. Current and emerging models for trauma-informed juvenile justice and implications for practice, policy, and research are discussed.鈥
Gasc贸n, L. D., & Roussell, A. (2018).听.听Race and Justice, 8(3), 270鈥297. https://doi.org/10.1177/2153368716678289
- Juvenile correctional boot camps 鈥渟eek to transform youth labeled 鈥榓t-risk鈥 into productive members of society.鈥 While these military-style programs have been in decline since the early 2000s, the Los Angeles Police Department 鈥渃ontinues to embrace them as a key disciplinary practice and vestige of the 鈥榞et tough鈥 era in U.S. juvenile justice reform.鈥 This study interrogates the treatment of boot camp participants by police and demonstrate how racial exclusion remains central to juvenile social control.
Nagra, B., & Maurutto, P. (2020).听.听British Journal of Criminology, 60(3), 600鈥619. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azz066
- The authors conducted 70 in-depth interviews with Muslim community leaders to explore Canadian Muslims鈥 experience of the no-fly list. They find the Canadian no-fly list 鈥渢argets Muslim communities, restricts mobility, separates individuals from family and friends, diminishes professional and economic opportunities, and stigmatizes those labelled a security risk.鈥 Drawing on the preventive security literature and CRT of counter-terrorism, this research demonstrates how no-fly lists 鈥渆rode fundamental aspects of justice, and reproduce racial hierarchies.鈥
Parks, G. S., & Jones, S. E. (2008).听.听Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, 98(4), 1305鈥1352. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1248382
- The authors analyze the assessment of the N-word within hate crimes law. Employing a Critical Race Realist methodology, the authors analyze Black and White usage of the N-word within popular culture and discuss the findings with research on implicit (subconscious) racial bias. The authors argue that 鈥渨hereas the N-Word is used by Blacks in a more race neutral manner within popular culture, its usage among Whites immersed in Black culture is nil.鈥
Rose, J. B. G. (2017). Toward a critical race theory of evidence.听Minnesota Law Review, 101(6), 2243鈥2311.
- Rose applies a critical race evidentiary inquiry to stand-your-ground defenses, flight from racially targeted police profiling and violence, and cross-racial witness identifications. Rose further examines 鈥渢he structural causes of the modern dual-race evidentiary system and offers suggestions about how critical evidentiary analysis by the bench, bar, and academy鈥攊ncluding a reinterpretation of Federal Rule of Evidence 403鈥攃ould make evidence law more equitable.鈥
Slakoff, D. C., & Brennan, P. K. (2019).听.听Feminist Criminology, 14(4), 488鈥516. https://doi.org/10.1177/1557085117747031
- The authors examined front-page crime stories from four different U.S. newspapers using Altheide鈥檚 approach to qualitative document analysis. They found that 鈥渟tories about White female victims received more repeated coverage and were more likely to contain sympathetic narratives than stories about Latina/Black female victims. In contrast, Latina/Black female victims were more likely to be portrayed as risk-takers and 鈥榖ad鈥 women, and their victimization was normalized through descriptions of their unsafe environments.鈥
Tehranian, J. (2012). Towards a critical IP theory: Copyright, consecration, and control.听Brigham Young University Law Review, 2012(4), 1237鈥1295.
- This article identifies and builds on 鈥渃ritical intellectual-property鈥 scholarship to introduce a framework for studying 鈥渉ow copyright transcends its small corner of the legal universe by shaping social structures and regulating individual behavior as part of a larger hegemonic project. It examines the link between intellectual-property rights and knowledge-power systems.鈥
Wing, A. K. (2016).听听Journal of Legal Education, 66(1), 44鈥54. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26402418
- The author discusses areas where CRT is vibrant now, and considers what we need to do in the future.