health
education
(criminal in)justice
we are polling for justice
participatory action research
research with,
not on
In the beginning . . .research
camps
How do we want to ask about who’s
filling out the survey?
What do we want to know about
experiences with the criminal
justice system?
What about education? And
health?
Our history together
As we wrote the survey, we
learned about historical,
contextual and structural
causes of injustice
Sculptures of injustice …
disparities . . .
repping p4j
Community
Board 11
Speak-outs
and rallys
Consortium
Schools
Public
Health
workers
Graduate
Students
District
Judges
Preliminary analysis
 Methods:
 Frequencies
 Contingency Tables
 Thematic content analysis of open-ended
questions
learning about crosstabulations . . .
Have you ever been hit, slapped, or physically hurt on
purpose?
How many girls were hit,
slapped, or physically hurt
on purpose?
How many boys were hit,
slapped, or physically hurt
on purpose?
So far we have 900 surveys
 Expecting 300 more
 First wave data that we are
sharing today:
N = 400
gender of our sample
transgender
1%
male
30%
female
69%
race/ethnicity of our sample
multiple
ethnicities
11%
asian south
asian
pacific
islander
13%
latina/o
37%
african
american/c
aribbean
37%
middle
eastern or
native
american,
american
indian,
alaskan…
We’re hearing
 Youth care about education:
 97% care about getting good grades in school
 92% believe that their teachers have high expectations of
them
 83% plan on getting a BA, MA, or PhD
 Youth get it, and care about the community:
 81% believe our economic system is unfair, and 74% believe
society needs to be radically restructured
 86% agree that young people can make a difference in
society
 90% believe that youth have important roles to play in
making the world a better place and
 74% said they like being involved with other young people
to create change.
Within the last 30 days of
taking the survey:
 22% were stopped by the police for
questioning
 15% were stopped by the police on their way
to or from school
 20% were stopped by police because of the
clothes they were wearing
Tell us about a time when you witnessed or
experienced an injustice or unfairness that
upset you:
I heard a group of teens who were on there way to
their friends funeral but because they all were
wearing the same R.I.P. shirt they were stopped by
the police and beaten (female, multiple
ethnicities)
I’ve seen kids of color stopped from leaving the
school building by security guards to check their
id’s (when they were done for the day and were
permitted to leave the school), wheras I, as a
white student, was questioned only once when
leaving the building and have walked out of the
building (past security guards) on several
occasions when I should have been in class.
(female, white)
Tell us about a time when you witnessed or
experienced an injustice or unfairness that
upset you:
Tell us about a time you witnessed or experienced injustice/unfairness
that upset you.
police
38.4
discrimination
36.8
never/idk, can't remember, pass or blank, don’t want to
29.0
school
11.3
youth/violence
4.3
housing
2.7
general
2.7
health
2.5
job
2.1
general violence
1.3
family
0.7
0.0
5.0
10.0
15.0
20.0
25.0
30.0
35.0
40.0
45.0
From all this
y
o
u
t
h
Y o u t h
y
o
u
t
h
Stops youth for
Police getting
Ask where
Police don’t
unidentified
rough
Mistaken
you are going
trust you
reasons
identity
Unreasonable
Arguments
Rude
Cussing
in
fines
and
comment and
Using cuffs at
your own
harassments
insults
Stopping you
unnecessary
home
without any
moments
Don’t want
Get pat down
reason
you outside at
Random All in your business
Don’t trust you’re
a certain time
searches
Sexual
a student when
Take down to
Racial
harassment
using a student
Violating
police station
profiling
metrocard
people’s
Being
rights
Using unnecessary
disrespected
Follow you
force
out in public
Sexual
when you are You can’t sit in
by cops
front of your
comments
in a big group
Getting stopped
own building
towards girls
Color discrimination
Very Rude!
Attitudes toward youth
Racism
More powerful/
power abuse
Stereotypesyouth steal,
loud, cause
problems
More money for cops
The neighborhoods
Age groups
Sexism
Government
(jail, law)
a
d
u
l
t
s
Stops youth
Mistaken
Ask where
Police
don’t
for
identity
Police getting
you are going
trust you
unidentified
Unreasonable
Using cuffs at rough
reasons
Rude
fines
unnecessary
Cussing in
comment and
moments
Arguments
your own
insults
Stopping you
and
home
Don’t want
Random
without any
Get pat down
harassments
you outside at
searches
reason
a certain time
Don’t trust you’re
Violating
a student when
Take down to
All in your business
Racial
people’s
using a student
police station
profiling
rights
Sexual
Being
metrocard
You can’t sit in
comments
disrespected
Using
front of your
Follow you
towards girls
out in public
unnecessary force
own
building
when you are
by cops
Getting stopped in a big group
Color discrimination
Very Rude!
Sexual
harassment
Fear
Dwindling
economy/labor
Shrinking
public space
Technologies of
surveillance set up
conditions for how
and who (or what)
Genuine confusion
Re: A better
alternative
Individualism, privatization, late
capitalism, vulnerability, structural
racism, moral exclusion
“The state needs
Patriarchy
criminals to eke out
mistrust
its own income by
exposure
their forced labor”
stress
Du Bois
Representations
of dangerous
White
A general
youth
hegemony
fear/lack of
Racism
trust of young
(including
people
fear)
The Roots
Attitudes toward youth
y
o
u
t
h
a
d
u
l
t
s
Racism
More powerful/
power abuse
Stereotypesyouth steal,
loud, cause
problems
More money for cops
Fear
Dwindling
economy/labor
Shrinking
public space
Technologies of
surveillance set up
conditions for how
and who (or what)
Genuine confusion
Re: A better
alternative
Individualism, privatization, late
capitalism, vulnerability, structural
racism, moral exclusion
The neighborhoods
Age groups
Government
(jail, law)
Sexism
“The state needs
Patriarchy
criminals
to eke out
mistrust
its own income by
exposure
their forced labor”
stress
Du Bois
Representations
of dangerous
White
A general
youth
hegemony
fear/lack of
Racism
trust of young
(including
people
fear)
Shout out to
 Our missing core team members: Dominique
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Ramsey, Erik McKenzie, and Alisha Vierira
The rest of our Graduate Center research team:
Michelle Fine, Nick Freudenberg, Jessica Ruglis,
Brett Stoudt, Valerie Francisco
To Jessica Lake, intern extraordinairre
To the Urban Youth Collaborative, Make the Road
NY, Surdna Foundation, Hazen Foundation, Glass
Foundation, Overbrook Foundation, Schott
Foundation for making our project possible
Free Minds Free People!! And the ADCO Foundation
for making this trip possible!