Justin Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 4076664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Framingham State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2332-2091 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“If you think this vilifies the police, then you think the police are villains”: Teaching Reparations Won as an antidote to copaganda
Building on prior research about copaganda and pro-police socialization, we argue that the Reparations Won curriculum in Chicago Public Schools is an antidote to police legitimization efforts in K-12 schools. Specifically, the curriculum affirms student experiences that are not accounted for nor deemed possible in a world built by and for policing; it emphasizes relationship-building and centers definitions of community that resist the alienation…
The Citizen app and the habits of becoming police in the 21st century
Boasting 10 million users across 60 US cities, Citizen has emerged as a leading safety app in a crowded market space. Building on scholarship that frames the app as a ‘force multiplier’ (Turner and Milburn 2025), this analysis examines how Citizen’s gamified features amplify police power—understood through Mark Neocleous’s framework as an ordering philosophy rather than a law enforcement strategy. In doing so, the broader transactions police powe…
Revisiting Akers' Social Structure and Social Learning from a Problem-Solving Approach: Symbolic Interactionism, Humans as Acting, and Social Structure
In line with a long tradition of theorizing, this paper draws on critiques of Akers’ Social Structure and Social Learning (SSSL) to argue for a stronger grounding of the theory in symbolic interactionism. Drawing on the work of Mead, Blumer, and Maines, the argument is that to do so means grounding SSSL in a view of humans as acting and action as problem-solving. It also means incorporating an expanded understanding of the situation into the theo…
Ghost Criminology: The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment
Bringing together prominent early contributions from this emergent perspective, the volume traces the origins, theory, and method of ghost criminology. From the powers of exorcism and erasure marshalled by state agents, street-level struggles over memorialization and memory, to the lingering violence of crime scenes and the ghostly traces of outlaw artists, Ghost Criminology is a volume attuned to that which is well-theorized in other disciplines…
Spike Lee (dir.) (2018) BlacKkKlansman
Bayis Ilh Tus – a strong breath” a community-based research project to estimate the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in remote and rural first nations communities in Canada: Researc…
The study has been retrospectively registered at clinicaltrials.gov ( NCT04105088 )
Cultural determinants of food attitudes in anosmic patients
Three-dimensional policeman: Security, sovereignty and volumetric police power
Rather than thinking only in terms of flat cartographic surfaces, this article advances current understandings of the political geography of police power by paying close attention to both height and depth in the fabrication and colonization of three-dimensional or volumetric political space. Taking aim at a number of police technologies including the ShotSpotter system which uses highly sensitive microphones to track gunfire and tear gas which we…
It all started with Eddie”: Thanatopolitics, police power, and the murder of Edward Byrne
On February 26, 1988, rookie New York City police officer Edward Byrne was shot dead while guarding a material witness in a drug trafficking case in South Jamaica, Queens. This article considers how state narratives and visual rhetoric emerging from Byrne’s murder emboldened the police power and a revanchist campaign aimed at “taking back the streets” secreted under the war on drugs. As such, this case powerfully illustrates a disparate politics …
Seeing Like an Orientalist State: The Three Deaths of Neda Agha-Soltan
Three-dimensional policeman: Security, sovereignty and volumetric police power
Rather than thinking only in terms of flat cartographic surfaces, this article advances current understandings of the political geography of police power by paying close attention to both height and depth in the fabrication and colonization of three-dimensional or volumetric political space. Taking aim at a number of police technologies including the ShotSpotter system which uses highly sensitive microphones to track gunfire and tear gas which we…
Seeing Like an Orientalist State: The Three Deaths of Neda Agha-Soltan
Seeing Like an Orientalist State: The Three Deaths of Neda Agha-Soltan
It all started with Eddie”: Thanatopolitics, police power, and the murder of Edward Byrne
On February 26, 1988, rookie New York City police officer Edward Byrne was shot dead while guarding a material witness in a drug trafficking case in South Jamaica, Queens. This article considers how state narratives and visual rhetoric emerging from Byrne’s murder emboldened the police power and a revanchist campaign aimed at “taking back the streets” secreted under the war on drugs. As such, this case powerfully illustrates a disparate politics …
Spike Lee (dir.) (2018) BlacKkKlansman
Bayis Ilh Tus – a strong breath” a community-based research project to estimate the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in remote and rural first nations communities in Canada: Researc…
The study has been retrospectively registered at clinicaltrials.gov ( NCT04105088 )
Cultural determinants of food attitudes in anosmic patients
Three-dimensional policeman: Security, sovereignty and volumetric police power
Rather than thinking only in terms of flat cartographic surfaces, this article advances current understandings of the political geography of police power by paying close attention to both height and depth in the fabrication and colonization of three-dimensional or volumetric political space. Taking aim at a number of police technologies including the ShotSpotter system which uses highly sensitive microphones to track gunfire and tear gas which we…
Ghost Criminology: The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment
Bringing together prominent early contributions from this emergent perspective, the volume traces the origins, theory, and method of ghost criminology. From the powers of exorcism and erasure marshalled by state agents, street-level struggles over memorialization and memory, to the lingering violence of crime scenes and the ghostly traces of outlaw artists, Ghost Criminology is a volume attuned to that which is well-theorized in other disciplines…
Revisiting Akers' Social Structure and Social Learning from a Problem-Solving Approach: Symbolic Interactionism, Humans as Acting, and Social Structure
In line with a long tradition of theorizing, this paper draws on critiques of Akers’ Social Structure and Social Learning (SSSL) to argue for a stronger grounding of the theory in symbolic interactionism. Drawing on the work of Mead, Blumer, and Maines, the argument is that to do so means grounding SSSL in a view of humans as acting and action as problem-solving. It also means incorporating an expanded understanding of the situation into the theo…
“If you think this vilifies the police, then you think the police are villains”: Teaching Reparations Won as an antidote to copaganda
Building on prior research about copaganda and pro-police socialization, we argue that the Reparations Won curriculum in Chicago Public Schools is an antidote to police legitimization efforts in K-12 schools. Specifically, the curriculum affirms student experiences that are not accounted for nor deemed possible in a world built by and for policing; it emphasizes relationship-building and centers definitions of community that resist the alienation…
The Citizen app and the habits of becoming police in the 21st century
Boasting 10 million users across 60 US cities, Citizen has emerged as a leading safety app in a crowded market space. Building on scholarship that frames the app as a ‘force multiplier’ (Turner and Milburn 2025), this analysis examines how Citizen’s gamified features amplify police power—understood through Mark Neocleous’s framework as an ordering philosophy rather than a law enforcement strategy. In doing so, the broader transactions police powe…
Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works)