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Survivor Criminology explores how one's status as a survivor has informed their journey and commitment to research, teaching, and activism. It provides a both a greater understanding to issues of victimization and gives a voice to those experiences as their foundation for criminological research, advocacy, and policy development.
List of contents
Foreword by Elizabeth A. Stanko
Introduction: A Call for Survivor Criminology by Kimberly J. Cook, Reneè D. Lamphere, Jason M. Williams, Stacy L. Mallicoat, and Alissa R. Ackerman
Chapter 1: Balancing the Dual Roles of Sex Crimes Researcher and Rape Survivor: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Survivor Scholars by Alexa D. Sardina and Alissa R. Ackerman
Chapter 2: No More Whispers in Secret: My Journey to Navigating Trauma in Academia by Reneè D. Lamphere
Chapter 3: I Am Not Supposed to be Here: Surviving Poverty and Anti-Blackness in Criminology and Academia by Jason M. Williams
Chapter 4: From Battered Woman to Professor: A Personal Reflection by Kimberly J. Cook
Chapter 5: From East New York to the Ivy Tower: How Structural Violence and Gang Membership Made Me a Critical Scholar by Jennifer Ortiz
Chapter 6: Navigating Survival: Contemplating Adversity and Resilience in Academia by Monishia Miller
Chapter 7: Surviving Death by Incarceration: Life Without Parole (LWOP) by Steven Green
Chapter 8: Growing as an Intersectional Scholar Means Rejecting Misogynoir: Unlearning as an Act of Survival by Toniqua C. Mikell
Chapter 9: When Did Black Lives Ever Matter by Babette J. Boyd
Chapter 10: Survivor Methodology for Healing and Transformation: A Love Letter to Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse by Lauren J. Silver
Chapter 11: Survivor Criminology as a Scholar/Activist in the #MeToo Movement and #MeToo Activism by Meredith G. F. Worthen
Chapter 12: Intersectional Biases in the Rural Courtroom by Stacy Parks Miller
Chapter 13: From Trauma to Healing: Aboriginal-Led Solutions for First-Nations Justice Involved Communities in Australia by Carly Stanley and Keenan Mundine
Conclusion: Survivor Criminology: Looking Forward by Kimberly J. Cook, Reneè D. Lamphere, Jason M. Williams, Stacy L. Mallicoat, and Alissa R. Ackerman
About the author
Kimberly J. Cook is professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
Reneè D. Lamphere is associate professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at University of North Carolina, Pembroke.
Jason M. Williams is associate professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University.
Stacy L. Mallicoat is professor of Criminal Justice in the Division of Politics, Administration and Justice at California State University, Fullerton.
Alissa R. Ackerman is associate professor of Criminal Justice in the Division of Politics, Administration and Justice at California State University, Fullerton.
Summary
Survivor Criminology explores how one’s status as a survivor has informed their journey and commitment to research, teaching, and activism. It provides a both a greater understanding to issues of victimization and gives a voice to those experiences as their foundation for criminological research, advocacy, and policy development.
