Nikki Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikki Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikki |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4295-5596 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Exploring teacher perceptions and the measured impacts of a progressive curriculum reform for learners from disadvantaged backgrounds
The Foundation Phase is a pioneering early years education reform that was introduced across Wales in 2008. Based on a progressive, child‐centred design, this reform aimed to improve educational outcomes in Wales and reduce achievement gaps for young learners. This paper reports a number of findings from a mixed‐methods study that assessed the impact of the Foundation Phase on pupil outcomes. The study paid particular attention to learners from d…
Other than the Projects, You Stay Professional”: “Colorblind” Cops and the Enactment of Spatial Racism in Routine Policing
In this article, we show how routine policing is conscripted into the project of maintaining and reproducing spatial racism in urban settings through an intersecting set of macro-level processes and micro-interactional practices. Our analysis of ethnographic interviews conducted with over 40 police officers during 20 ride-alongs in the Western United States identifies person- and place-specific heuristic classifications that police officers rely …
I AM A Child: A Girl-Child's Truth and The Lies of Law Enforcement
On January 29, 2021, a police officer with the Rochester, New York, Police Department pepper-sprayed a 9-year old Black girl who had been handcuffed and forced into the back of a police car. In the struggle that proceeded this moment, an officer yelled at the girl with obvious frustration, 'You're acting like a child!' In this essay, I consider how the girl's quick retort -'I AM a child!'-interjected a truth into the struggle that had been all bu…
The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption
The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption provides a timely ethnographic account of the social organization of “the crime-fighting community” in San Francisco’s Fillmore neighborhood. Nikki Jones addresses a significant sociological puzzle: how does violence in inner-city neighborhoods continue despite institutional and individual level resources aimed at addressing this problem? Jones proposes that the crime-fighting efforts of i…
Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence
With an outward gaze focused on a better future, Between Good and Ghetto reflects the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. Drawing on personal encounters, traditions of urban ethnography, Black feminist thought, gender studies, and feminist criminology, Nikki Jones gives readers a richly descriptive and compassionate account of how African American girls negotiate schools and neighbor…
Taking the “Girl” Out of Gender-Responsive Programming in the Juvenile Justice System
Since the early 2000s, state and local policy makers, practitioners, and advocates accelerated existing federal efforts to reform the youth justice system and dramatically reduce the number of youth detained in the juvenile justice system. States across the country achieved these drops through policy changes that created fiscal disincentives and legal roadblocks to state custody. Yet recent research shows that youth of color and LGBQ-GNCT (lesbia…
Twenty-Five Years of Research and Advocacy on Violence Against Women: What Have We Accomplished, and Where Do We Go From Here? A Conversation
This article is a conversation between two academic experts, Callie Rennison and Nikki Jones, who endeavor to sum up what has been accomplished in eliminating violence against women in the United States during the 25 years of the journal's existence. Domestic violence, rape, and sexual harassment are discussed. Although prevalence rates are down in domestic violence, rape and sexual harassment remain persistent problems. Looking at violence again…
Social and health outcomes following upgrades to a national housing standard: A multilevel analysis of a five-wave repeated cross-sectional survey
The study suggests that substantial housing investments through a managed upgrade programme may result in better social and health outcomes, and that the size of the improvements are proportionate to the number of measures installed and amount invested. However, there may be risks associated with specific measures; and more attention is needed for mechanical ventilation when upgrading energy efficiency of houses through fabric work. In addition t…
The Regular Routine”: Proactive Policing and Adolescent Development Among Young, Poor Black Men
Over the last several decades, proactive policing, in which departments use data on reported crimes to determine where local police officers will target their surveillance, has increased police contact with residents in certain neighborhoods. Drawing on field research conducted over a three-year period (2007-2010) among adult and adolescent African American men in a San Francisco neighborhood with a concentrated poor, Black population, I provide …
Theorizing Alternative Pathways Through Adulthood: Unequal Social Arrangements in the Lives of Young Disadvantaged Men
This chapter introduces the innovative field-based studies on disadvantaged men that are featured in this volume. Together, these studies of disadvantaged men from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds and both urban and nonurban settings complement and extend recent discussions of emerging adulthood, which typically conceptualizes the transition to adulthood as a normative and linear process. The authors offer that the research presented here pr…
The Camera Rolls: Using Third-Party Video in Field Research
This article draws on one citizen's efforts to document daily life in his neighborhood. The authors describe the potential benefits of third-party video-videos that people who are not social scientists have recorded and preserved-to social science research. Excerpts from a collection of police-citizen interactions illustrate key points likely to confront researchers who use third-party video. The authors address two important questions: How might…
Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence
I was Aggressive for the Streets, Pretty for the Pictures: Gender, Difference, and the Inner-City Girl
It is a late June afternoon and I am standing outside of a caf6 on Fillmore Street in San Francisco. I am holding flyers for Kiara', a young woman I met a few hours earlier. Kiara is 22 years old with a light brown com plexion and long, wavy hair that suggests a multiracial heritage. Her style of dress is 1980s-retro. She wears a purple lace glove with the finger cut off on her right hand, a short-sleeved jacket over a yellow and green Brazil fdt…
The Minds of Marginalized Black Men: Making Sense of Mobility, Opportunity, and Future Life Chances
It’s not Where you Live, it’s How you Live”: How Young Women Negotiate Conflict and Violence in the Inner City
To navigate inner-city neighborhoods, young women, though reluctant at times, are often encouraged to become known as able fighters for their own protection. Among peers, one’s reputation, once established, is an important social resource. The following narratives illustrate how two young women negotiate the context of violence they confront in their everyday lives
Being Here and Being There: Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries
Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence
With an outward gaze focused on a better future, Between Good and Ghetto reflects the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. Drawing on personal encounters, traditions of urban ethnography, Black feminist thought, gender studies, and feminist criminology, Nikki Jones gives readers a richly descriptive and compassionate account of how African American girls negotiate schools and neighbor…
It’s not Where you Live, it’s How you Live”: How Young Women Negotiate Conflict and Violence in the Inner City
To navigate inner-city neighborhoods, young women, though reluctant at times, are often encouraged to become known as able fighters for their own protection. Among peers, one’s reputation, once established, is an important social resource. The following narratives illustrate how two young women negotiate the context of violence they confront in their everyday lives
The Camera Rolls: Using Third-Party Video in Field Research
This article draws on one citizen's efforts to document daily life in his neighborhood. The authors describe the potential benefits of third-party video-videos that people who are not social scientists have recorded and preserved-to social science research. Excerpts from a collection of police-citizen interactions illustrate key points likely to confront researchers who use third-party video. The authors address two important questions: How might…
I was Aggressive for the Streets, Pretty for the Pictures: Gender, Difference, and the Inner-City Girl
It is a late June afternoon and I am standing outside of a caf6 on Fillmore Street in San Francisco. I am holding flyers for Kiara', a young woman I met a few hours earlier. Kiara is 22 years old with a light brown com plexion and long, wavy hair that suggests a multiracial heritage. Her style of dress is 1980s-retro. She wears a purple lace glove with the finger cut off on her right hand, a short-sleeved jacket over a yellow and green Brazil fdt…
Twenty-Five Years of Research and Advocacy on Violence Against Women: What Have We Accomplished, and Where Do We Go From Here? A Conversation
This article is a conversation between two academic experts, Callie Rennison and Nikki Jones, who endeavor to sum up what has been accomplished in eliminating violence against women in the United States during the 25 years of the journal's existence. Domestic violence, rape, and sexual harassment are discussed. Although prevalence rates are down in domestic violence, rape and sexual harassment remain persistent problems. Looking at violence again…
Other than the Projects, You Stay Professional”: “Colorblind” Cops and the Enactment of Spatial Racism in Routine Policing
In this article, we show how routine policing is conscripted into the project of maintaining and reproducing spatial racism in urban settings through an intersecting set of macro-level processes and micro-interactional practices. Our analysis of ethnographic interviews conducted with over 40 police officers during 20 ride-alongs in the Western United States identifies person- and place-specific heuristic classifications that police officers rely …
Taking the “Girl” Out of Gender-Responsive Programming in the Juvenile Justice System
Since the early 2000s, state and local policy makers, practitioners, and advocates accelerated existing federal efforts to reform the youth justice system and dramatically reduce the number of youth detained in the juvenile justice system. States across the country achieved these drops through policy changes that created fiscal disincentives and legal roadblocks to state custody. Yet recent research shows that youth of color and LGBQ-GNCT (lesbia…
Being Here and Being There: Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries
I AM A Child: A Girl-Child's Truth and The Lies of Law Enforcement
On January 29, 2021, a police officer with the Rochester, New York, Police Department pepper-sprayed a 9-year old Black girl who had been handcuffed and forced into the back of a police car. In the struggle that proceeded this moment, an officer yelled at the girl with obvious frustration, 'You're acting like a child!' In this essay, I consider how the girl's quick retort -'I AM a child!'-interjected a truth into the struggle that had been all bu…
It’s not Where you Live, it’s How you Live”: How Young Women Negotiate Conflict and Violence in the Inner City
To navigate inner-city neighborhoods, young women, though reluctant at times, are often encouraged to become known as able fighters for their own protection. Among peers, one’s reputation, once established, is an important social resource. The following narratives illustrate how two young women negotiate the context of violence they confront in their everyday lives
Being Here and Being There: Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries
The Minds of Marginalized Black Men: Making Sense of Mobility, Opportunity, and Future Life Chances
Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence
I was Aggressive for the Streets, Pretty for the Pictures: Gender, Difference, and the Inner-City Girl
It is a late June afternoon and I am standing outside of a caf6 on Fillmore Street in San Francisco. I am holding flyers for Kiara', a young woman I met a few hours earlier. Kiara is 22 years old with a light brown com plexion and long, wavy hair that suggests a multiracial heritage. Her style of dress is 1980s-retro. She wears a purple lace glove with the finger cut off on her right hand, a short-sleeved jacket over a yellow and green Brazil fdt…
The Camera Rolls: Using Third-Party Video in Field Research
This article draws on one citizen's efforts to document daily life in his neighborhood. The authors describe the potential benefits of third-party video-videos that people who are not social scientists have recorded and preserved-to social science research. Excerpts from a collection of police-citizen interactions illustrate key points likely to confront researchers who use third-party video. The authors address two important questions: How might…
The Regular Routine”: Proactive Policing and Adolescent Development Among Young, Poor Black Men
Over the last several decades, proactive policing, in which departments use data on reported crimes to determine where local police officers will target their surveillance, has increased police contact with residents in certain neighborhoods. Drawing on field research conducted over a three-year period (2007-2010) among adult and adolescent African American men in a San Francisco neighborhood with a concentrated poor, Black population, I provide …
Theorizing Alternative Pathways Through Adulthood: Unequal Social Arrangements in the Lives of Young Disadvantaged Men
This chapter introduces the innovative field-based studies on disadvantaged men that are featured in this volume. Together, these studies of disadvantaged men from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds and both urban and nonurban settings complement and extend recent discussions of emerging adulthood, which typically conceptualizes the transition to adulthood as a normative and linear process. The authors offer that the research presented here pr…
Social and health outcomes following upgrades to a national housing standard: A multilevel analysis of a five-wave repeated cross-sectional survey
The study suggests that substantial housing investments through a managed upgrade programme may result in better social and health outcomes, and that the size of the improvements are proportionate to the number of measures installed and amount invested. However, there may be risks associated with specific measures; and more attention is needed for mechanical ventilation when upgrading energy efficiency of houses through fabric work. In addition t…
Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence
With an outward gaze focused on a better future, Between Good and Ghetto reflects the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. Drawing on personal encounters, traditions of urban ethnography, Black feminist thought, gender studies, and feminist criminology, Nikki Jones gives readers a richly descriptive and compassionate account of how African American girls negotiate schools and neighbor…
Taking the “Girl” Out of Gender-Responsive Programming in the Juvenile Justice System
Since the early 2000s, state and local policy makers, practitioners, and advocates accelerated existing federal efforts to reform the youth justice system and dramatically reduce the number of youth detained in the juvenile justice system. States across the country achieved these drops through policy changes that created fiscal disincentives and legal roadblocks to state custody. Yet recent research shows that youth of color and LGBQ-GNCT (lesbia…
Twenty-Five Years of Research and Advocacy on Violence Against Women: What Have We Accomplished, and Where Do We Go From Here? A Conversation
This article is a conversation between two academic experts, Callie Rennison and Nikki Jones, who endeavor to sum up what has been accomplished in eliminating violence against women in the United States during the 25 years of the journal's existence. Domestic violence, rape, and sexual harassment are discussed. Although prevalence rates are down in domestic violence, rape and sexual harassment remain persistent problems. Looking at violence again…
The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption
The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption provides a timely ethnographic account of the social organization of “the crime-fighting community” in San Francisco’s Fillmore neighborhood. Nikki Jones addresses a significant sociological puzzle: how does violence in inner-city neighborhoods continue despite institutional and individual level resources aimed at addressing this problem? Jones proposes that the crime-fighting efforts of i…
I AM A Child: A Girl-Child's Truth and The Lies of Law Enforcement
On January 29, 2021, a police officer with the Rochester, New York, Police Department pepper-sprayed a 9-year old Black girl who had been handcuffed and forced into the back of a police car. In the struggle that proceeded this moment, an officer yelled at the girl with obvious frustration, 'You're acting like a child!' In this essay, I consider how the girl's quick retort -'I AM a child!'-interjected a truth into the struggle that had been all bu…
Other than the Projects, You Stay Professional”: “Colorblind” Cops and the Enactment of Spatial Racism in Routine Policing
In this article, we show how routine policing is conscripted into the project of maintaining and reproducing spatial racism in urban settings through an intersecting set of macro-level processes and micro-interactional practices. Our analysis of ethnographic interviews conducted with over 40 police officers during 20 ride-alongs in the Western United States identifies person- and place-specific heuristic classifications that police officers rely …
Exploring teacher perceptions and the measured impacts of a progressive curriculum reform for learners from disadvantaged backgrounds
The Foundation Phase is a pioneering early years education reform that was introduced across Wales in 2008. Based on a progressive, child‐centred design, this reform aimed to improve educational outcomes in Wales and reduce achievement gaps for young learners. This paper reports a number of findings from a mixed‐methods study that assessed the impact of the Foundation Phase on pupil outcomes. The study paid particular attention to learners from d…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Art (3 works)