Exploring Violent Careers over the Life Course: A Study of Urban African American Males and Females The primary purpose of this two-year project was to examine the criminal career dimensions and patterns of violence among a cohort of urban African American males and females into mid-adulthood…
Violence and Dysphoria: The Villagization of Kinshasa and the Role of Healers …public institutions, has urged me to fathom Kinois’ (as the inhabitants of Kinshasa are called) deeper longings and their survival strategies for countering the local turbulence and coming to terms…
The Diffusion of Lethal and Nonlethal Violence in Gang Networks Gangs conjure a general sense of fear among the public and policymakers alike. In part, this fear stems from the nature of gang activities, which, as the term “street gang”…
Remembering Violence and the Transvaluation of the Public Sphere My South African research brings the two poles of structural violence and transacted violence into greater proximity through the very tissue of historical memory. In the debates that have surrounded…
In Harm’s Way: Violence at the Urban Margins in Contemporary Argentina In Argentina, and elsewhere in Latin America, members of the middle and upper-middle classes tend to be the main spokespeople in public debates around the issue of citizens’public safety (seguridad)….
“Why Do People of Color Have to Go to Extremes to Save their Kids?” A Conversation with Joseph Richardson …or changing the narrative with the public. Che is a good example. He goes from being stabbed thirteen times in the street, to guest lecturing in my class, to becoming…
Operation Fly Trap: Police Suppression and Gang Violence …the amount of health-related problems noncriminal family members faced. Some children began to suffer from depression or ulcers as well as failure in school. Family members often became ill with…
“People Who Do Harmful Things Are Reacting to Harmful Things”: A Conversation with Marlon Peterson …vocal critic of the American criminal justice system, Peterson has written about violence prevention for numerous publications, including Ebony, The Nation, USA Today, and The Root. I talked with Peterson…
‘There’s Nothing Inevitable or Permanent about Democracy’: A Conversation with Robert Talisse …and political violence? I think we should always be worried about the health and viability of democracy. I think it’s dangerous for people to think that democracy is a set…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellows …(English Studies, Université Mohammed Premier), Colonial Shadows and Post-Colonial Dreams: Exploring Corruption and Hope in Anglophone African Literature Rukayat Usman (Sociology/Public Policy, University of Ibadan), Violence Continuum and the Mobility…
