Social Science Spotlight
Mapping Juvenile Justice
Social Science Spotlight: Mapping Juvenile Justice
Psychology’s Professor Erika Fountain and GES’s Professor Dillon Mahmoudi recently published research on how minors involved in the juvenile justice system are required to navigate Baltimore City and Baltimore County in order to meet court compliance requirements, and the transportation and support available for them to do so.
A discussion with local attorneys about adolescent clients’ struggle to keep up with expectations of the court inspired the study. Probation requirements often include school, program involvement, meetings, etc, which can span miles across the city or county. Some kids might have as many as 9-10 requirements to keep up with their probation, and if they fall out of compliance, they could face confinement. While the courts aim to keep kids in their communities, it can be difficult to meet all requirements without access to transportation and logistical support.
Drs. Fountain and Mahmoudi decided to map geographically what these requirements look like for kids, and take into account their families, support systems, and access to the city’s transportation network. They seek to define the universe of expectations placed on the involved youth: what are they expected to do each week, what the entire experience looks like from their perspective, and what burdens it places on their families. As part of the mapping project, Fountain and Mahmoudi identified Department of Juvenile Services office locations and homes of the involved youths. Digging deeper, they examined what the home communities face in terms of economics, racial segregation, social marginalization, and access to cars or public transportation, to identify barriers to compliance for the youth.
Through interviews and a focus group, the researchers plan to have participants interact with maps and explain different stages of getting to compliance requirements, identifying social impediments (like bus fare) and spacial impediments (like traveling from Catonsville to Owings Mills for multiple appointments).
Fountain and Mahmoudi are partnering with The Choice Program at UMBC and its youth advisory board (composed of High School students) to think through challenges with transportation and how it impacts compliance for court-involved youth. They plan to begin additional data collection this year, and eventually expand their mapping project to other cities.
Dr. Erika Fountain is a developmental community psychologist with the Department of Psychology, and Dr. Dillon Mahmoudi is an urban and economic geographer with the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems.
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The Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research (IPPCR) course trains registrants on how to effectively and safely conduct clinical research. The course focuses on the spectrum of clinical research and the research process by highlighting biostatistical and epidemiologic methods, study design, protocol preparation, patient monitoring, quality assurance, ethical and legal issues, and much more.
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Provide an overview of basic biostatistical and epidemiologic methods involved in conducting clinical research.
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This course will be of interest to physicians, scientists, medical and dental students, nurses, public health professionals, and others conducting or planning a career in clinical research.
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| John I. Gallin, MD – Course Co-Director
Dr. John Gallin serves as the National Institutes of Health's Associate Director for Clinical Research and Chief Scientific Officer of the NIH Clinical Center. He has published more than 365 articles in scientific journals and has edited two textbooks – "Inflammation, Basic Principles and Clinical Correlates" (Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins, 1999, now in 3rd edition) and "Principles and Practice of Clinical Research" (Academic Press, now in 4th edition, 2018). Dr. Gallin is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the National Academy of Medicine, and he is a Master of the American College of Physicians. |
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Laura Lee Johnson, Ph.D. is the patient focused drug development liaison and the division director for the Office of Biostatistics at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). She specializes in design, logistics, implementation, and analysis of research studies of all sizes and in measurement tool and endpoint development. Prior to working at the FDA she spent over a decade at the U.S. National Institutes of Health working on and overseeing clinical research and research support programs. |
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Title: Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the digital mundane in Favelas of Brazil
Abstract: Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela residents engage with technology in their everyday lives. Their stories reveal the structural violence of the information age. But they also show how those oppressed by technology don’t just reject it, but consciously resist and appropriate it, and how their experiences with digital technologies enable them to navigate both digital and nondigital sources of oppression—and even, at times, to flourish.
Bio: David Nemer is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Affiliated Faculty in Latin American Studies at the University of Virginia. David Nemer has a PhD in Computing, Culture, and Society from Indiana University, and a Master’s in Anthropology from the University of Virginia, and in Computer Science from Saarland University. He is also an Affiliated Scholar at Princeton University’s Brazil Lab. He is the author of “Technology of the Oppressed” (forthcoming February 2022, MIT Press) and “Favela Digital: The other side of technology” (2013, GSA).
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Title: Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the digital mundane in Favelas of Brazil Abstract: Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela...
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Indigenous Perspectives on Decolonization
Tuesday, November 16th @2pm
The program for Arab and Muslim American Studies is hosting its first event of the academic year: Indigenous Perspectives on Decolonization.
During the event, three indigenous speakers from diverse communities discuss their perspective on indigenous identity and politics, decolonization practices, and solidarity. Our speakers include:
Dr. Ashley Minner (Lumbee Tribe NC)
Ashley Minner is a community-based visual artist from Baltimore and an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. She received her MFA (’11) and MA (’07) in Community Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art, and her PhD (’20) in American Studies from University of Maryland College Park. Ashley recently worked as a professor of the practice and folklorist in the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where she also served as director of the minor in Public Humanities. She currently works as a curator for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Dana Olwan (Palestinian)
Dana Olwan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Syracuse University. Her work is located at the nexus of feminist theorizations of gender violence, transnational solidarities, and critical feminist pedagogies. She is the recipient of a Mellon Emerging Faculty Leader Award from the Institute of Citizens and Scholars, a Future Minority Studies postdoctoral fellowship, and a Palestinian American Research Council grant. Her work has appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Feminist Formations, the Journal of Settler Colonial Studies, American Quarterly, and Feral Feminisms. She is co-editor with Margaret A. Pappano of Muslim Mothering: Local and Global Histories, Theories, and Practices (Demeter Press, 2016). Her first book Gender Violence and The Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime was published by Ohio State University Press in 2021. She is currently working on a new project that is centered on marriage and divorce laws and citizenship practices in the Arab world, with a specific focus on Jordan and women’s access to personal status rights. She teaches courses on feminist theory, comparative settler colonialisms, and gender politics in the Middle East and North Africa. She is co-editor (with Chandra Talpade Mohanty) of Comparative Feminist Studies from Palgrave Mcmillan.
Dr. Stephanie Nohelani Teves (Kanaka Maoli).
Stephanie Nohelani Teves (Kanaka Maoli) is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa where she teaches courses on Indigenous feminisms and queer theory. She is author of Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance and co-editor of Native Studies Keywords. She has published articles on Hawaiian sexuality, diaspora, hip-hop, film, and feminisms in Hawaiʻi and Oceania. She has received fellowships from Yale University, the University of Oregon, and the Ford Foundation. Her articles have appeared in American Quarterly, The Drama Review, the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, and the International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies. She is currently co-editing a special issue of Amerasia on Ocean Feminisms and is working on a new book on the queer history of Hawai’i and an oral history project with LGBTQ kupuna (elders).
Click here to attend this virtual event, or visit the original event post for more information & to join. 
