I am proud to announce that Convict Criminology executive board has passed an initiative to develop a mentorship program to assist justice-impacted scholars/students. Be on the lookout for more information on this in upcoming months!

Congratulations to LC Scholar and soon to be Dr. Chris Guerra is now “off the market” and will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at The University of Texas at El Paso beginning Fall 2022!!! Way to Represent!!! ¡Felicidades!

Not sure if he defines himself this way - but it was literally in my last semester that I technically shouldn’t have taken bc I fulfilled all my credit hrs - so thankful I did & yes it changed me! 💯

Um… yes!

*Super motivated to add finishing touches to my final project* Boom. Twitter. 😭

Here’s a list of terms & subjects Republican lawmakers would like to ban in all Wisconsin classrooms:

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Went to renew my APA membership American Psychological Association and was asked about felony convictions. My membership is pending until a review board can decide. Found this very interesting as the APA, if any1, should know the discriminatory and prejudicial tactics of the U.S. criminal justice system 🤔

I'll say it again: qualitative methods should be a required course for all PhD programs. We'd be better as a discipline at assessing the merits of qualitative work versus rejecting it for things like small samples and no generalizability.

Using data from 2 year photo-ethnography with people who use meth (JARED RAGLAND), we have published the 1st photo-ethnography in the journal Criminology! We show the importance of narratives in shaping behavior Fiona Brookman Blake Beaton tinyurl.com/ycks2sfs

USF #GoBulls or Squirrels? 😂🤟🏼

HB 1439 also establishes the University of South Florida-St. Petersburg Trafficking in Persons Risk to Resilience Lab (TIP Lab) as a statewide repository for human trafficking data. Jackie Toledo USF St. Petersburg USF Research USF Criminology Dept. @ShellyWagers @DrBryannaFox Dr. Jess Grosholz

Not Twitter gaslighting me

HOT OFF THE PRESS! Public Perceptions of #Panamanian 🇵🇦Prisons: An Analysis of YouTube User Comments with Mateus R. Santos Dr. Jess Grosholz and Dr.Cecil doi.org/10.1080/019240… #publication

By my student, Mahaleth Sotelo (Mahaleth Sotelo 🇵🇦), a great study using social media data to argue that negative attitudes about incarcerated people is the major barrier for prison reform in Panama. USF Criminology Dept. Dr. Jess Grosholz

The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right. The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy. We must end that international embarrassment. Yes. We need Medicare for All.