Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill
Biographic Data
| ID | 3776845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kwan-Lamar |
| FAMILY NAME | Blount-Hill |
| SIGNATURE | BLOUNT-HILL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5471-0812 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Engagement is Not an Option: The Essential Role of Community-Engaged Research for Implementation Science, in Community Violence Studies and Beyond
While community-engaged research would seem to have significant overlap with both implementation science and program and policy evaluation, these respective bodies of work have developed largely apart from one another. We argue that disregarding community-engaged epistemologies (or engaging only superficially) when studying how policy or programs “work” significantly increases the likelihood of producing invalid science. Accordingly, we present a…
“Respect the Badge”: Exploring the Use of Respect as a Means of Survival During Police Encounters
Police in the United States are most commonly directed to surveil and criminalize minoritized communities, which bolsters stereotypes of racial threat and results in disparate criminal legal outcomes for Black individuals. Hyper-surveillance has led to distrust and dissatisfaction with police in minoritized communities and inspired research exploring ways to ameliorate police-community relationships. While officers’ use of respect is found to enh…
Understanding Willingness to Cooperate With Police: Current Perceptions of Bias Matter, But So Does Hope in Future Police Procedural Justice
To solve crime, police rely on the public’s willingness to cooperate (WTC). While scholarship has focused on how people’s current perceptions of police might impact their WTC, it is likely that their views concerning the future might also matter. This study tested the hypothesis that people’s hope in future police procedural justice (HFPPJ) may impact and even overpower the association between how they currently view police and their current WTC.…
A Framework for Understanding Credibility: What Makes Credible Messengers “Credible” in a New York City–Based Sample of Gun Violence Intervention Programs
The use of credible messengers to deliver violence reduction programs has spread rapidly since it was first used in a criminal justice context by Cure Violence in 1999. However, there is no clear conceptualization of what a credible messenger is, aside from vague definitions contained in the evaluation literature. We provide a “broad strokes” framework for developing a general theory of credibility that might extend from criminal justice across d…
Political Ideology and American Attitudes Toward Police Reform: The Case of the Conflicted Conservative
Amid recent controversies in American policing, the authors draw on insights from political science to explore the case of “conflicted conservatives,” Americans who self-identify as conservative but who are operationally liberal in policy preferences. Compared with other political collectives, conflicted conservative attitudes are theorized to be driven primarily by utilitarian concerns about social conditions and government performance rather th…
Queer Resistance to Gender-Based Violence in Natal Families: Experiences of Violence, Survival, Escape, and Kinship Among Thirunangais in Chennai, India
Building a social identity theory of stigmatized sexual practice: Exploring BDSM practitioner identity formation within interviews from an Israeli sample
Capturing the conversation of trust research
Disclosing Survivor/Victim Identity in the Search for Queer Sexual Relationships: An Experimental Audit Study of Lesbian and Gay Users on Mobile Dating Apps
Community-Based Violence Intervention and Social Justice: An Exploration of Benefits Beyond Violence Reduction
Community violence interventions (CVIs) that involve individuals from affected communities in the organization and provision of services have the potential to create positive impacts on social justice beyond violence reduction. We explore the potential of these programs to enhance social justice, above and beyond their assumed violence reduction impact, and how one may potentially measure this impact. To illustrate the point, we discuss three CVI…
Understanding Police Agencies’ Explanations for Racial and Ethnic Disproportionality in Vehicle Stops
Extant literature on traffic stops indicates that disparate enforcement of traffic laws is pervasive, violative of individuals’ constitutional liberties, and can have a lasting impact on the psyches of those subjected to it. This issue takes center stage in Missouri, a state that has often been alleged to engage in racial profiling, because disproportionality has persisted despite legislation to address it. To this point, several quantitative inv…
Police station design and intrusive police encounters: Untangling variations in emotions and behaviourally-relevant perceptions across racial groups
Cultivating positive human interactions is at the core of many strategies used to strengthen the relationship between police and community members, with the use of criminal justice architecture being an emergent strategy. This study employs a survey experiment to examine police station design as a strategy to improve police-community relationships and the interactive effect of an individual’s previous encounters with police officers. Study result…
How bell hooks Taught us to Talk Back: A Love Letter
In Their Experience: A Review of Racial and Sexual Minority Experience in Academe and Proposals for Building an Inclusive Criminology
Feminist criminologists were pioneers in highlighting that academics’ standpoints (i.e., their social and societal positionalities) influence which “objective” truth they tell. Testimonies, the sharing of one's story, can provide important angles to our understandings of social phenomenon, including of life in the academic sphere. In the present work, we introduce our conceptualization of “inclusive criminology” as a framework for integrating cri…
Exploring a Social Identity Theory of Shared Narrative: Insights from Resident Stories of Police Contact in Newark, New Jersey, and Cleveland, Ohio
Narrative identity theorists have long held that individuals construct identities as a coherent tale of their past, present, and future selves. These life stories are structured along predictable scripts borrowed from cultural master narratives. Heretofore, legitimacy theorists have relied on social identity theory to explain legitimation processes. I propose integrating elements of narrative identity theory with social identity for a more comple…
The psychology of justice buildings: A survey experiment on police architecture, public sentiment, and race
Writing Another as Other: A Retro-Intro-Extrospection
Autoethnographies such as Ajil and Blount-Hill’s (2020) in DCJ, 2(1), which demonstrate the disempowerment suffered by the othered at the hands of colonial systems are valuable contributions to decolonial literature. Still, as the othered gain in status, privilege, and power, narrative provides a worthy method of analyzing the othered and powerful
The Frontline of Housing Access: Comparing Criminal Stigma among Landlords and Real Estate Agents in New York
Swipe Right: Experimental Analyses of App-Based Dating in the Age of Criminal Stigma
Stigma associated with prior incarceration could make dating difficult. To test this in online dating, an experimental audit used constructed dating app profiles of Black, Latinx, and White males and females. Experimental and control profiles were identical with the exception of a parole disclosure statement in bios of experimental profiles. Surprisingly, the White female profile disclosing parole was the only one to match with significantly fewe…
Truth and Reconciliation as a Model for Change in Response to # MeToo
The U . S . criminal justice system is designed to handle extreme cases of sexual misconduct , but the system has not adapted well to less extreme (but no less important) sexually inappropriate behaviors . As our understanding of sexual misconduct and impropriety evolves , the need for a new system of accountability seems apparent . The authors call for a new approach to providing justice for survivors/victims: the adoption of a truth and reconci…
Writing the Other as Other”: Exploring the Othered Lens in Academia Using Collaborative Autoethnography
Trends seemingly signal the decay of White heterosexual male hegemony in academe. Still, while changes have addressed lack of access to an academic system whose benefits are assumed, critical literatures call into question Western-based theory and traditionally Eurocentric ways of knowledge production. An important programmatic component of decolonizing knowledge production consists of arguing for increased inclusivity and diversity among scholar…
Examining housing discrimination across race, gender and felony history
Those who have been convicted of crimes are subjected to a stigma that affects many aspects of their social lives. The “felon” label brings collateral consequences that make it difficult to obtain basic human needs, including housing. This study uses the audit method to examine the effects of race, gender, and criminal history on housing outcomes. Testers, exhibiting characteristics suggestive of race and gender and disclosing one of three offens…
"Manufactured "Mismatch: Cultural Incongruence and Black Experience in the Academy
Studies bear out that African Americans are drastically underrepresented in criminology and criminal justice doctoral programs and that, once admitted, they have lower-than-average rates of completion. On average, throughout their careers, African Americans are less likely to secure positions in the most prestigious programs; publish in the most highly regarded journals; or receive tenure, promotion, and compensation commensurate with their Europ…
Strangers no more: Immigration and the challenges of integration in North America and western Europe. By Richard Alba and Nancy Foner: Why Muslim integration fails in Christian-heritage societies. By …
Strangers no more: immigration and the challenges of integration in North America and western Europe. By Richard Alba and Nancy Foner. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2015. 246pp. £20.00. ISBN 978 0 69116 107 5. Available as e-book. Why Muslim integration fails in Christian-heritage societies. By Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin and Marie-Anne Valfort. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2016. 182pp. £34.00. ISBN 978 0 67450 492 9…
Examining housing discrimination across race, gender and felony history
Those who have been convicted of crimes are subjected to a stigma that affects many aspects of their social lives. The “felon” label brings collateral consequences that make it difficult to obtain basic human needs, including housing. This study uses the audit method to examine the effects of race, gender, and criminal history on housing outcomes. Testers, exhibiting characteristics suggestive of race and gender and disclosing one of three offens…
Writing the Other as Other”: Exploring the Othered Lens in Academia Using Collaborative Autoethnography
Trends seemingly signal the decay of White heterosexual male hegemony in academe. Still, while changes have addressed lack of access to an academic system whose benefits are assumed, critical literatures call into question Western-based theory and traditionally Eurocentric ways of knowledge production. An important programmatic component of decolonizing knowledge production consists of arguing for increased inclusivity and diversity among scholar…
"Manufactured "Mismatch: Cultural Incongruence and Black Experience in the Academy
Studies bear out that African Americans are drastically underrepresented in criminology and criminal justice doctoral programs and that, once admitted, they have lower-than-average rates of completion. On average, throughout their careers, African Americans are less likely to secure positions in the most prestigious programs; publish in the most highly regarded journals; or receive tenure, promotion, and compensation commensurate with their Europ…
Capturing the conversation of trust research
Community-Based Violence Intervention and Social Justice: An Exploration of Benefits Beyond Violence Reduction
Community violence interventions (CVIs) that involve individuals from affected communities in the organization and provision of services have the potential to create positive impacts on social justice beyond violence reduction. We explore the potential of these programs to enhance social justice, above and beyond their assumed violence reduction impact, and how one may potentially measure this impact. To illustrate the point, we discuss three CVI…
Writing Another as Other: A Retro-Intro-Extrospection
Autoethnographies such as Ajil and Blount-Hill’s (2020) in DCJ, 2(1), which demonstrate the disempowerment suffered by the othered at the hands of colonial systems are valuable contributions to decolonial literature. Still, as the othered gain in status, privilege, and power, narrative provides a worthy method of analyzing the othered and powerful
The Frontline of Housing Access: Comparing Criminal Stigma among Landlords and Real Estate Agents in New York
Swipe Right: Experimental Analyses of App-Based Dating in the Age of Criminal Stigma
Stigma associated with prior incarceration could make dating difficult. To test this in online dating, an experimental audit used constructed dating app profiles of Black, Latinx, and White males and females. Experimental and control profiles were identical with the exception of a parole disclosure statement in bios of experimental profiles. Surprisingly, the White female profile disclosing parole was the only one to match with significantly fewe…
Truth and Reconciliation as a Model for Change in Response to # MeToo
The U . S . criminal justice system is designed to handle extreme cases of sexual misconduct , but the system has not adapted well to less extreme (but no less important) sexually inappropriate behaviors . As our understanding of sexual misconduct and impropriety evolves , the need for a new system of accountability seems apparent . The authors call for a new approach to providing justice for survivors/victims: the adoption of a truth and reconci…
Strangers no more: Immigration and the challenges of integration in North America and western Europe. By Richard Alba and Nancy Foner: Why Muslim integration fails in Christian-heritage societies. By …
Strangers no more: immigration and the challenges of integration in North America and western Europe. By Richard Alba and Nancy Foner. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2015. 246pp. £20.00. ISBN 978 0 69116 107 5. Available as e-book. Why Muslim integration fails in Christian-heritage societies. By Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin and Marie-Anne Valfort. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2016. 182pp. £34.00. ISBN 978 0 67450 492 9…
"Manufactured "Mismatch: Cultural Incongruence and Black Experience in the Academy
Studies bear out that African Americans are drastically underrepresented in criminology and criminal justice doctoral programs and that, once admitted, they have lower-than-average rates of completion. On average, throughout their careers, African Americans are less likely to secure positions in the most prestigious programs; publish in the most highly regarded journals; or receive tenure, promotion, and compensation commensurate with their Europ…
Examining housing discrimination across race, gender and felony history
Those who have been convicted of crimes are subjected to a stigma that affects many aspects of their social lives. The “felon” label brings collateral consequences that make it difficult to obtain basic human needs, including housing. This study uses the audit method to examine the effects of race, gender, and criminal history on housing outcomes. Testers, exhibiting characteristics suggestive of race and gender and disclosing one of three offens…
Swipe Right: Experimental Analyses of App-Based Dating in the Age of Criminal Stigma
Stigma associated with prior incarceration could make dating difficult. To test this in online dating, an experimental audit used constructed dating app profiles of Black, Latinx, and White males and females. Experimental and control profiles were identical with the exception of a parole disclosure statement in bios of experimental profiles. Surprisingly, the White female profile disclosing parole was the only one to match with significantly fewe…
Truth and Reconciliation as a Model for Change in Response to # MeToo
The U . S . criminal justice system is designed to handle extreme cases of sexual misconduct , but the system has not adapted well to less extreme (but no less important) sexually inappropriate behaviors . As our understanding of sexual misconduct and impropriety evolves , the need for a new system of accountability seems apparent . The authors call for a new approach to providing justice for survivors/victims: the adoption of a truth and reconci…
Writing the Other as Other”: Exploring the Othered Lens in Academia Using Collaborative Autoethnography
Trends seemingly signal the decay of White heterosexual male hegemony in academe. Still, while changes have addressed lack of access to an academic system whose benefits are assumed, critical literatures call into question Western-based theory and traditionally Eurocentric ways of knowledge production. An important programmatic component of decolonizing knowledge production consists of arguing for increased inclusivity and diversity among scholar…
Exploring a Social Identity Theory of Shared Narrative: Insights from Resident Stories of Police Contact in Newark, New Jersey, and Cleveland, Ohio
Narrative identity theorists have long held that individuals construct identities as a coherent tale of their past, present, and future selves. These life stories are structured along predictable scripts borrowed from cultural master narratives. Heretofore, legitimacy theorists have relied on social identity theory to explain legitimation processes. I propose integrating elements of narrative identity theory with social identity for a more comple…
The psychology of justice buildings: A survey experiment on police architecture, public sentiment, and race
Writing Another as Other: A Retro-Intro-Extrospection
Autoethnographies such as Ajil and Blount-Hill’s (2020) in DCJ, 2(1), which demonstrate the disempowerment suffered by the othered at the hands of colonial systems are valuable contributions to decolonial literature. Still, as the othered gain in status, privilege, and power, narrative provides a worthy method of analyzing the othered and powerful
The Frontline of Housing Access: Comparing Criminal Stigma among Landlords and Real Estate Agents in New York
How bell hooks Taught us to Talk Back: A Love Letter
In Their Experience: A Review of Racial and Sexual Minority Experience in Academe and Proposals for Building an Inclusive Criminology
Feminist criminologists were pioneers in highlighting that academics’ standpoints (i.e., their social and societal positionalities) influence which “objective” truth they tell. Testimonies, the sharing of one's story, can provide important angles to our understandings of social phenomenon, including of life in the academic sphere. In the present work, we introduce our conceptualization of “inclusive criminology” as a framework for integrating cri…
Understanding Police Agencies’ Explanations for Racial and Ethnic Disproportionality in Vehicle Stops
Extant literature on traffic stops indicates that disparate enforcement of traffic laws is pervasive, violative of individuals’ constitutional liberties, and can have a lasting impact on the psyches of those subjected to it. This issue takes center stage in Missouri, a state that has often been alleged to engage in racial profiling, because disproportionality has persisted despite legislation to address it. To this point, several quantitative inv…
Police station design and intrusive police encounters: Untangling variations in emotions and behaviourally-relevant perceptions across racial groups
Cultivating positive human interactions is at the core of many strategies used to strengthen the relationship between police and community members, with the use of criminal justice architecture being an emergent strategy. This study employs a survey experiment to examine police station design as a strategy to improve police-community relationships and the interactive effect of an individual’s previous encounters with police officers. Study result…
Building a social identity theory of stigmatized sexual practice: Exploring BDSM practitioner identity formation within interviews from an Israeli sample
Capturing the conversation of trust research
Disclosing Survivor/Victim Identity in the Search for Queer Sexual Relationships: An Experimental Audit Study of Lesbian and Gay Users on Mobile Dating Apps
Community-Based Violence Intervention and Social Justice: An Exploration of Benefits Beyond Violence Reduction
Community violence interventions (CVIs) that involve individuals from affected communities in the organization and provision of services have the potential to create positive impacts on social justice beyond violence reduction. We explore the potential of these programs to enhance social justice, above and beyond their assumed violence reduction impact, and how one may potentially measure this impact. To illustrate the point, we discuss three CVI…
“Respect the Badge”: Exploring the Use of Respect as a Means of Survival During Police Encounters
Police in the United States are most commonly directed to surveil and criminalize minoritized communities, which bolsters stereotypes of racial threat and results in disparate criminal legal outcomes for Black individuals. Hyper-surveillance has led to distrust and dissatisfaction with police in minoritized communities and inspired research exploring ways to ameliorate police-community relationships. While officers’ use of respect is found to enh…
Understanding Willingness to Cooperate With Police: Current Perceptions of Bias Matter, But So Does Hope in Future Police Procedural Justice
To solve crime, police rely on the public’s willingness to cooperate (WTC). While scholarship has focused on how people’s current perceptions of police might impact their WTC, it is likely that their views concerning the future might also matter. This study tested the hypothesis that people’s hope in future police procedural justice (HFPPJ) may impact and even overpower the association between how they currently view police and their current WTC.…
A Framework for Understanding Credibility: What Makes Credible Messengers “Credible” in a New York City–Based Sample of Gun Violence Intervention Programs
The use of credible messengers to deliver violence reduction programs has spread rapidly since it was first used in a criminal justice context by Cure Violence in 1999. However, there is no clear conceptualization of what a credible messenger is, aside from vague definitions contained in the evaluation literature. We provide a “broad strokes” framework for developing a general theory of credibility that might extend from criminal justice across d…
Political Ideology and American Attitudes Toward Police Reform: The Case of the Conflicted Conservative
Amid recent controversies in American policing, the authors draw on insights from political science to explore the case of “conflicted conservatives,” Americans who self-identify as conservative but who are operationally liberal in policy preferences. Compared with other political collectives, conflicted conservative attitudes are theorized to be driven primarily by utilitarian concerns about social conditions and government performance rather th…
Queer Resistance to Gender-Based Violence in Natal Families: Experiences of Violence, Survival, Escape, and Kinship Among Thirunangais in Chennai, India
Engagement is Not an Option: The Essential Role of Community-Engaged Research for Implementation Science, in Community Violence Studies and Beyond
While community-engaged research would seem to have significant overlap with both implementation science and program and policy evaluation, these respective bodies of work have developed largely apart from one another. We argue that disregarding community-engaged epistemologies (or engaging only superficially) when studying how policy or programs “work” significantly increases the likelihood of producing invalid science. Accordingly, we present a…
Psychology (21 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Criminology (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (8 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works)