Join CRB Nexus: Where Policy Meets Research for a live virtual discussion featuring Sharon S. Oselin and Garrick Percival as they discuss Public Safety in policy and practice on Friday, June 20 from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM! 

In support of a vibrant community of practice, this event will NOT be recorded. See you there!

CRB Nexus is a community of California researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and organizations committed to public policy solutions informed by data-driven research. We come together to connect, build professional relationships, and share information. Together we translate evidence into action and foster the next generation of public scholarship aimed at identifying and solving policy issues.

Come meet like-minded Californians as we build a research to policy community of practice!

Panelists:

Dr. John Halushka is Associate Professor of Justice Studies at San José State University. His research broadly examines how mass incarceration shapes patterns of poverty and racial inequality in the United States. As an ethnographer, he uses the tools of participant-observation and in-depth interviewing to understand the lived experiences of system-impacted communities. His book, Getting the Runaround: Formerly Incarcerated Men and the Bureaucratic Barriers to Reentry (University of California Press, 2023), examines how returning citizens navigate the "institutional circuit" of parole offices, public assistance programs, rehabilitation facilities, shelters, and family courts. He argues that the very institutions charged with facilitating the transition from incarceration to community life perversely undermine reintegration by imposing a litany of bureaucratic obstacles.

Dr. Garrick Percival is the Chair and Professor of the Department of Political Science at San José State University. His work focuses on American and California politics, criminal justice policy, and racial and social inequality. He is currently working on two primary projects. The first is focused on local prosecutors and their relationship to California's de-incarceration efforts. The second, a book-length monograph, investigates fractures within the Democratic Party around criminal justice reform.

Dr. Sharon S. Oselin is a Professor of Public Policy and Sociology, and Director of the Presley Center of Crime and Justice Studies at University of California, Riverside. Her research interests encompass crime, deviance, and criminal justice, gender and sexuality, organizations, and urban conditions. Oselin's work has been funded by the Haynes Foundation, the American Association of University Women, the American Sociological Association and National Science Foundation, and she has been awarded contracts by the California Workplace Development Board and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for program and policy evaluation. She has two major ongoing research projects. The first examines how gentrification impacts street-based vice markets in Toronto and Chicago through the enactment of formal and informal social controls. This project holds implications for the improvement of city-level urban and health policies and practices. The second investigates re-entry experiences among the formerly incarcerated and justice-impacted people, specifically focusing on whether regional and statewide policies and programs affect employment attainment and recidivism outcomes.

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