Examining Culturally Responsive Faculty Development for Criminologists
Examining Culturally Responsive Faculty Development for Criminologists
Howard Henderson Jasmine Drake Kandace Hurst Denise Brown Adeyemi Doss Emerald Jones Serita Whiting Julian Scott III a Center for Justice Research, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX, USAb Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USAc Administration of Justice, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX, USAd African American Studies, Texas Southern University, St. Louis, MO, USAe Department of Social Sciences, Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL, USAf Department of Justice Studies, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX, USAHoward Henderson is a Professor in the Department of Administration of Justice at Texas Southern University and the Founding Director of the Center for Justice Research. His research focuses on criminal justice policy, program evaluation, risk-needs assessment, corrections, police-community relations, and prosecutorial decision-making, with an emphasis on racial equity and justice reform. His scholarship has appeared in Criminal Justice and Behavior, Race and Justice, Crime & Delinquency, and Victims & Offenders.Jasmine Drake is Interim Associate Dean, Associate Professor, and a Program Coordinator at Texas Southern University Center for Justice Research. Her research focuses on forensic science, drug chemistry, toxicology, criminal justice policy, health disparities, and the intersection of science and justice, with particular emphasis on opioid-related harms and forensic evidence analysis. Her scholarship has appeared in Drug Science, Policy and Law, Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, and other peer-reviewed outlets, and she serves as Vice Chair of the Texas Forensic Science Commission.Kandace Hurst is a Senior Instructor in the Department of Chemistry at Louisiana State University. Her work focuses on chemistry education, STEM student success, curriculum development, and laboratory instruction and administration. She is an award-winning educator recognized for excellence in teaching, mentoring, and expanding opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students in the sciences.Denise Brown is a postdoctoral graduate and adjunct faculty member in the Department of Administration of Justice at Texas Southern University. Her research focuses on gun violence, justice system disparities, forensic science, and evidence-based approaches to crime prevention. Her scholarly work includes publications in Toxicological Sciences, the Journal of Chromatography B, and public scholarship on violence prevention and public safety.Adeyemi Doss is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Saint Louis University. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in African American and African Diaspora Studies from Indiana University and a B.A. in Sociology/Anthropology from Earlham College, with a prior faculty appointment at Indiana State University. His scholarship centers on critical visual ethnography and Black embodiment. He is currently completing The Flesh Archive, a hybrid visual ethnography theorizing tattooing as counter-inscription against the involuntary marking of Black bodies, drawing on the work of Hortense Spillers, Saidiya Hartman, and Tina Campt. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Autoethnography and North Meridian Review, and he is an associate producer and photographer on the documentary Remembering Mill Creek: When We Were There.Emerald Jones is a tenure-track Assistant Professor and Criminal Justice Program Coordinator at Alabama A&M University. Her research focuses on mass incarceration, social injustice, race and ethnicity, policing, and systemic inequalities within the criminal justice system, with particular attention to the experiences of marginalized communities. She combines scholarship and teaching to examine the intersection of crime, justice, race, gender, and public policy, while preparing students to critically analyze contemporary criminal justice issues.Serita Whiting is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Justice Studies at Prairie View A&M University and an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Administration of Justice at Texas Southern University. Her research focuses on juvenile justice, criminological theory, race and gender, and the experiences of marginalized populations within the criminal and juvenile justice systems. Her scholarship has appeared in Feminist Criminology, Race and Justice, and Journal of Criminal Justice Education.Julian Scott III is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Administration of Justice at Texas Southern University. His research focuses on juvenile justice, criminological theory, race and crime, policing, gangs, correctional systems, and the social influences of popular culture on delinquency and offending behavior. His scholarship has appeared in the Journal of Criminal Justice and Law Review, Journal of Sociological Research, and the Encyclopedia of Corrections, and he is actively engaged in community outreach, mentorship, and criminal justice policy initiatives.