| Payne coauthers new book | Payne coauthers new book | | 1/13/2023 5:00:00 AM | | <p><a href="https://www.soc.udel.edu/people/faculty29">Yasser Payne,</a> associate professor in the Department of <a href="https://www.soc.udel.edu/">Sociology and Criminal Justice</a>, is the coauthor of a new book, Murder Town, USA: Homicide, Structural Violence and Activism in Wilmington, with Brooklyn Hitchens and Darryl Chambers, to be published by Rutgers University Press. The book uses a street-ethnography approach to tell the story of 15 people formerly involved with the streets in Wilmington, Delaware, who became activists related to gun violence. The book is scheduled to be released in July and can <a href="https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/murder-town-usa/9781978817364">be preordered</a> now.</p> | | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#e59b718f-f2f3-4654-8986-5eea60d4f90b;L0|#0e59b718f-f2f3-4654-8986-5eea60d4f90b|Publications;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2023.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=268 | |
| Perez published in Delaware Journal of Public Health | Perez published in Delaware Journal of Public Health | victorp; | 9/23/2022 4:00:00 AM | | <p>In the August issue of the <em>Delaware Journal of Public Health</em>, <strong>Victor W. Perez</strong>,
associate professor of sociology and criminal justice, and William
Swiatek, principal planner at WILMAPCO,
highlight the potential for paradoxical impacts of green infrastructure
integrated with urban redevelopment. Absent directly addressing social
inequalities in parallel efforts, green infrastructure may lead to
negative health outcomes of disadvantaged residents, including eventual
displacement. Perez and Swiatek present the research literature and
reviews on this topic. They next highlight the case of recent
in-migration of higher-income whites and others in South Wilmington,
Delaware, spurred on by high-end Riverfront redevelopment at Christina
Landing. This migration may obscure how greening efforts — such as a new
wetlands park to control area flooding — influence health outcomes in
Southbridge, a low-income, African American neighborhood also within
South Wilmington. The area’s census tract boundary, often used in both
health and equity assessments, is shared by these distinctive
communities. When viewed through the lens of inequality, greening can
have multi-faceted impacts that structure health outcomes. The authors
underscore the importance of the mitigation of its potentially harmful
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| Porcher and Hughes named 2022 UDARI Faculty Summer Scholars | Porcher and Hughes named 2022 UDARI Faculty Summer Scholars | | 4/29/2022 4:00:00 AM | | <p><strong>Kisha Porcher</strong>, assistant professor of English, and <strong>Cresean Hughes</strong>,
assistant professor of sociology and social justice, have been named by
the UD Anti-Racism Initiative (UDARI) as the 2022 UDARI Faculty Summer
Scholars. Porcher’s qualitative research study will address the ways
centering Blackness in English education in theory (Black theorists and
ways of knowing) and practice (teaching and best practices from the
Black community) disrupt anti-Blackness in English education programs.
Hughes’s project explores whether an underexplored measure of criminal
justice punitiveness -- capital punishment -- might be associated with
disparities in school discipline for Black and brown students, and asks
if such a relationship exists, under what circumstances it would arise
and for whom the relationship would be most salient.</p> | | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#99d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a;L0|#099d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a|Awards and Honors;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2022.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=174 | |
| Visher to speak at webinar | Visher to speak at webinar | | 4/22/2022 4:00:00 AM | | <p><strong>Christy Visher</strong>, professor of sociology and director of UD’s
Center for Drug and Health Studies, will speak at a webinar on Thursday,
April 28, to discuss a report from the National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering and Medicine’s Committee on Law and Justice, of which she is
a member. The report, “Evaluating Success Among People Released From
Prison,” undertakes a critical analysis of the strengths and limitations
of current measures of recidivism, correlates of positive outcomes for
those who do not return to prison, and measures of reentry that go
beyond the avoidance of negative outcomes to consider broader measures
of success. The webinar, from 2 p.m.-4 p.m., will include an overview of
the study process and a discussion of its findings and recommendations.
For more information and to register, visit the <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evaluating-success-among-people-released-from-prison-report-release-webinar-tickets-309958703827">event’s website</a>.</p> | | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#d586cffd-ad4b-45b9-8581-f6a2bbf70d87;L0|#0d586cffd-ad4b-45b9-8581-f6a2bbf70d87|Presentations;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2022.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=168 | |
| Sun published on victimization in the Asian community. | Sun published on victimization in the Asian community. | ;Isun; | 11/15/2021 5:00:00 AM | | <p><span class="wrap-text">Professor Ivan Sun in the department of
Sociology and Criminal Justice recently published a piece on
victimization in the Asian community in <a href="/content-sub-site/Documents/211109_Criminologist_Sun.pdf">The Criminologist</a>. Among other indices, he and his
co-authors explore the prevalence of intimate partner violence in Asian
and Asian American families in the United States.</span></p><p><span class="wrap-text"></span><br></p> | | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#e59b718f-f2f3-4654-8986-5eea60d4f90b;L0|#0e59b718f-f2f3-4654-8986-5eea60d4f90b|Publications;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2021.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=108 | |
| Payne wins ACLU Kandler Award | Payne wins ACLU Kandler Award | | 11/2/2021 4:00:00 AM | | <p>The ACLU of Delaware's annual Kandler Award honors members of the community who represent the highest commitment to ensuring the civil rights and liberties of all Delawareans.<br></p>On October 20, UD Associate Professor <a href="https://publish.soc.udel.edu/people/faculty29">Yasser Payne</a>, who holds a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice and Africana Studies, was one of two honorees. <br><br>Dr. Payne’s street ethnographic research program examines notions of resilience, structural violence and gun violence with street-identified Black Americans by drawing on an unconventional methodological framework titled: Street Participatory Action Research (Street PAR)—the process of doing research and activism with street identified populations. Presently, he leads two Street PAR projects on gun violence in the City of Wilmington funded by Christiana Care Hospital; and he leads a national Street PAR project on gun violence in the following five cities: Wilmington, DE; Baltimore, MD; Detroit, Michigan; News Orleans, Louisiana; and Brooklyn, New York City.<br><br>Dr. Payne’s first Street PAR project in Wilmington, Delaware, was The People’s Report: The Link between Structural Violence and Crime in Wilmington, Delaware. This study trained fifteen people (20-48) formerly involved with the criminal justice system to empirically document the relationship between economic well-being and gun violence in the Eastside and Southbridge neighborhoods of Wilmington. Learn more about the project at <a href="http://thepeoplesreport.com/" target="_blank">The People's Report</a>. <br><br> | <img alt="" src="/ForTheRecord%20Images/PAR%201.jpeg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Uncropped Horizontal | | GP0|#99d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a;L0|#099d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a|Awards and Honors;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2021.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=4 | |
| Visher appointed to National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine committee | Visher appointed to National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine committee | ;visher; | 6/4/2021 4:00:00 AM | | <p><strong>Christy A. Visher</strong>, professor of sociology and criminal justice
and director of UD’s Center for Drug and Health Studies, has been
appointed to the Committee on Evaluating Success Among People Released
from Prison of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and
Medicine. This committee will review research and make recommendations
toward broadening the definition of criminal recidivism and
post-incarceration reintegration beyond the official criminal justice
measures of rearrest, reconviction and reincarceration to include
measures of success.<br></p> | | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#8442c1a6-2557-4340-b895-2f7f241f6ae1;L0|#08442c1a6-2557-4340-b895-2f7f241f6ae1|Appointments;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2021.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=25 | |
| 'Policing Black Bodies' selected as 'common reader' at Furman University | 'Policing Black Bodies' selected as 'common reader' at Furman University | | 2/5/2021 5:00:00 AM | | <p><em>Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work For Change</em>, authored by <strong>Angela Hattery</strong>, professor of women and gender studies, co-director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender Based Violence, and <strong>Earl Smith</strong>, adjunct professor of sociology in the Associate In Arts Program and affiliate in the Department of Women and Gender Studies and the Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender Based Violence, has been selected by the sociology department at Furman University as the "common reader" for this academic year. All students taking any of the 10 sections of “Introduction to Sociology” will read <em>Policing Black Bodies</em>, and Hattery and Smith will give a campuswide lecture in April via Zoom.</p> | | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#99d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a;L0|#099d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a|Awards and Honors;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2021.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=34 | |
