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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...
donjacques
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...
donjacques
Apr 22, 20195 min read
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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...
donjacques
Feb 19, 20196 min read
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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...
donjacques
Jan 15, 201911 min read
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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...
donjacques
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...
donjacques
May 16, 20174 min read
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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...
donjacques
Jul 18, 20163 min read
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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...
donjacques
Jul 14, 20165 min read
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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,...
donjacques
Jul 12, 20164 min read
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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...
donjacques
Sep 14, 20155 min read
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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...
donjacques
Aug 8, 20151 min read
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“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...
donjacques
Jul 2, 20156 min read
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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...
donjacques
Mar 3, 20155 min read
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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...
donjacques
Dec 30, 20147 min read
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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...
donjacques
Nov 20, 20144 min read
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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,...
donjacques
Nov 14, 20145 min read
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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,...
donjacques
Nov 4, 20145 min read
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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...
donjacques
Oct 17, 20145 min read
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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,...
donjacques
Sep 25, 20144 min read
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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,...
donjacques
Sep 3, 20143 min read
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