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Improving Mental Health Care in Criminal Justice Settings
By Amalia Corby, MS (Senior Legislative and Federal Affairs Officer, APA Advocacy Office) Did you know that an estimated 15% of men and...
Don Jacques
Dec 16, 20192 min read
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[CROSS-POST] I-O Psychologists’ Passion Projects: Increasing Fairness for Job Seekers with Criminal
This blog post is cross-posted from APA’s Psych Learning Curve, a blog run by APA’s Education Directorate where psychology and education...
Don Jacques
Apr 22, 20195 min read
The Work Is Never Done: Mental Health, Mass Incarceration, and African American Custodial Grandparen
By Frances Adomako, Ed.M (Counseling Psychology Doctoral Student, Howard University) Traditionally, African American grandparents have...
Don Jacques
Feb 19, 20196 min read
How Psychologists and Peer Mentors Can Work Together to Fight Human Trafficking in the United States
By Paola M. Contreras, PsyD (Asst. Professor, William James College) and Diya Kallivayalil, PhD (Asst. Professor, Harvard Medical...
Don Jacques
Jan 15, 201911 min read
Jury Bias: Can You Argue the Facts When Race Enters the Mix?
By Silvia L. Mazzula, PhD (Asst. Professor of Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY) I’m sure you’ve heard it – only...
Don Jacques
Aug 22, 20177 min read
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[CROSS-POST] Put Aside What We Don’t Know and Support Justice-Involved Youth with Mental Health Need
This post originally appeared on the Campaign for Youth Justice blog and is cross-posted with their permission. By Micah...
Don Jacques
May 16, 20174 min read
Why Evidence-Based Community Policing Needs to be the Norm, Not an Exception
By Susan H. McDaniel, PhD Longstanding tensions between police and communities of color have reached a boiling point in the United...
Don Jacques
Jul 18, 20163 min read
Racial Trauma is Real: The Impact of Police Shootings on African Americans
By Erlanger A. Turner, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Houston-Downtown) & Jasmine Richardson Note: An...
Don Jacques
Jul 14, 20165 min read
How to Talk to Our Kids about the Tragic Shootings in Louisiana, Minnesota and Dallas
By Robin Gurwitch, PhD Families around the country are coming together to talk about the officer-involved shootings in Louisiana,...
Don Jacques
Jul 12, 20164 min read
Addressing Biased Policing Through Science-Based Training
This is part of our ongoing series of blog posts about race, racism and law enforcement in communities of color. By Lorie Fridell, PhD...
Don Jacques
Sep 14, 20155 min read
Psychologists Address Police Interactions with Boys and Men of Color
2015 APA Annual Convention Do you know that feeling when you hear something really meaningful? For me it often involves a pit in my...
Don Jacques
Aug 8, 20151 min read
“Death by Legal Intervention” by the Numbers
This is part of our ongoing series of blog posts about race, racism and law enforcement in communities of color. By Suzanne Lea, PhD...
Don Jacques
Jul 2, 20156 min read
Justice for All… Experiences of Undocumented Youth with Law Enforcement
This is part of our ongoing series of blog posts about race, racism and law enforcement in communities of color. By J. Manuel Casas, PhD...
Don Jacques
Mar 3, 20155 min read
Black (Women’s?) Lives Matter: Microaggression and the Erasure of Violence Against Women of Color
This is part of our ongoing series of blog posts about race, racism and law enforcement in communities of color. By LisaLyn Jacobs, JD...
Don Jacques
Dec 30, 20147 min read
Cruel and (Un)usual Punishment: The Treatment of Transgender Prisoners
By Sabrina Cox, MA, LMSW Zahara Green is a 25-year-old transgender woman who was placed in an all-male prison in May 2012. According to...
Don Jacques
Nov 20, 20144 min read
Our Invisible Youth: Addressing Disparities in the School-To-Prison Pipeline
This post continues our new blog series on poverty. As our nation reflects on its progress in fighting poverty over the last 50 years,...
Don Jacques
Nov 14, 20145 min read
How to End the Criminalization of Poverty
This post continues our new blog series on poverty. As our nation reflects on its progress in fighting poverty over the last 50 years,...
Don Jacques
Nov 4, 20145 min read
Close to Home: A Psychologist Reflects on Providing Crisis Counseling in Ferguson
This is part of our ongoing series of blog posts about race, racism and law enforcement in communities of color. By Jameca Falconer, PhD...
Don Jacques
Oct 17, 20145 min read
Racial Perceptions of Crime and Support for Punitive Policies
This is part of our ongoing series of blog posts about race, racism and law enforcement in communities of color. By Nazgol Ghandnoosh,...
Don Jacques
Sep 25, 20144 min read
Ferguson and the Need for Effective Community Policing
This is part of our ongoing series of blog posts about race, racism and law enforcement in communities of color. By Ellen Scrivner, PhD,...
Don Jacques
Sep 3, 20143 min read
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