“Err on the Side of Grace, for Yourself, and for Your Students”: A Resource List and Advice for First-Time Race and Crime Instructors

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Carlene Y. Barnaby Alexander H. Updegrove Maisha N. Cooper Ahram Cho Andrekus Dixon a Criminal Justice Program, Department of History, Philosophy and Political Science, Kingsborough Community College CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, USAb Department of Criminal Justice, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USAc Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USAd Department of Criminal Justice, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USACarlene Y. Barnaby, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Criminal Justice Program, at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, NY. Her research focuses on race and crime, immigration, wrongful convictions, and criminal justice education. Her recent work appeared in The American Journal of Forensic Psychology and Race and Justice.Alexander H. Updegrove, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of North Texas. His research interests include racialization and racism in the criminal legal system, public opinion, and injustice. His recent work has appeared in Race and Justice and Crime & Delinquency.Maisha N. Cooper, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research interests include Race/Ethnicity/Gender and academia, Race/Ethnicity/Gender and crime, and Juvenile Justice. Her recent work has appeared in the Journal of Criminal Justice Education, Crime & Delinquency, and Justice Quarterly.Ahram Cho, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at New Mexico State University. Her research focuses on correctional experiences and outcomes, gen‑ der, crime, and justice, and quantitative methods. Her recent work has appeared in Crime & Delinquency and Feminist Criminology.Andrekus Dixon is a Principal Lecturer and the Undergraduate Program Director in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of North Texas Denton. He received his Master of Science degree in Criminal Justice from the University of North Texas. His research interest includes inequality, crime and justice issues, race and crime, victimology and capital punishment.

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