The Justice Initiative is excited to launch its inaugural cohort of pilot project recipients who are engaged in a variety of different research projects focusing on issues of incarceration including reentry, peer mentorship, aging in prison, barriers to employment, and incarcerated mothers and shared parenting. The faculty recipients come from several schools across Columbia and many of them are working in collaboration with community organizations and advocates.
Steps to Reentry: An understanding of the steps to successful community reintegration
Pamela Valera, PhD
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
The Power of Peers: A Strengths-Based Leadership and Social Capital Development Project
Susan Sturm, J.D.
Columbia Law School
Hearing the Voices of Criminal Justice Involved Mothers and Transforming the
Dialogue into Reflective Planning for Shared Care Giving of Their Separated
Children
Mary Byrne, PhD
Columbia University School of Nursing
Graying Out the Threat? Exploring the Impact of Age and Race in Criminal Sentencing Decisions
PIs: Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, Ph.D & Michael North, Ph.D
Columbia University Psychology Department
Out But Still Doing Time: Effects of Employment Screenings on Job Applicants with Criminal Records
PIs: Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, Ph.D & Michael J. Naft, J.D.
Art and the Politics of Mass Incarceration: Well Contested Sites Symposium
Selby Schwartz, PhD
Columbia University Undergraduate Writing Program
For more detailed descriptions of there projects click here.