Jamie J Fader
Biographic Data
| ID | 4177844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamie J Fader |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamie J |
| FAMILY NAME | Fader |
| SIGNATURE | FADER J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1466-1374 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Handbook on Lived Experience in the Justice System
Code of the Street 25 Years Later: Lasting Legacies, Empirical Status, and Future Directions
This review, published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Code of the Street (1999), considers the legacies of Elijah Anderson's groundbreaking analysis of the interactional rules for negotiating street violence within the context of racism and structural disadvantage in Philadelphia. Empirical testing has yielded substantial support for Code of the Street’s key arguments. In the process of assessing its generalizability, such …
What’s in a Name? The Framing of Gang Interventions in a City with No “Gangs.”
This study examines an observed contradiction in a city with a high level of group-based youth violence and some juvenile justice stakeholders who deny the presence of gangs. Drawing on interviews and focus groups, we use framing theory to understand how definitions of gangs are constructed and contested. We attend to the language and rhetorical strategies used by stakeholders and find two distinct frames at work which we call “community health” …
“I Don’t Want to Be a Statistic”: Racial-Criminal Stigma, Redemption Bids, and Redemptive Generativity
Within the context of racial caste and the “stickiness” of criminal labels, men struggle to craft positive masculine identities. Contesting racial-criminal stigma requires men of color to challenge controlling images of violent Black men. Analyzing narratives of 45 millennial men in Philadelphia, we identify redemption bids and redemptive generativity as ways of defying social stigma. Redemption, which has been highlighted in the desistance liter…
I don't have time for drama”: Managing risk and uncertainty through network avoidance
This study employs in‐depth interviews ( n = 45) with men 25–34 years in age who live in a Philadelphia neighborhood heavily impacted by mass incarceration. It asks the following: 1) How do they perceive risk? 2) How do they organize their daily routines in response to it? 3) Are there racial differences in perceptions and adaptations to risk? Nearly all of the men of color in the study reported staying in their houses and avoiding public spaces,…
Falling Back: Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood among Urban Youth
Jamie J. Fader documents the transition to adulthood for a particularly vulnerable population: young inner-city men of color who have, by the age of eighteen, already been imprisoned. How, she asks, do such precariously situated youth become adult men? What are the sources of change in their lives? Falling Back is based on over three years of ethnographic research with black and Latino males on the cusp of adulthood and incarcerated at a rural re…
Reducing Crime Among Youth at Risk for Gang Involvement: A Randomized Trial
Research Summary No gang prevention or intervention programs meet the standards for effectiveness promulgated by Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development. This randomized controlled trial of a well‐known program—Functional Family Therapy—that was modified to address the needs of gang‐involved adolescents yields two main findings. First, youth at high risk for gang membership and their families engaged with and successfully completed the program a…
Selling smarter, not harder”: Life course effects on drug sellers’ risk perceptions and management
Criminal Family Networks: Criminal Capital and Cost Avoidance among Urban Drug Sellers
This study explores: (1) how criminal family networks facilitate cost avoidance strategies by urban drug sellers and (2) transmission of criminal capital by these networks. Twenty interviews with drug sellers in Philadelphia found that family networks provided unique access to cost avoidance techniques that appeared to reduce offenders' risk of arrest and violent victimization. Transfer of family criminal capital was not limited to mentoring and …
Dealing with Difference in Desistance Theory: The Promise of Intersectionality for New Avenues of Inquiry
The last two decades have witnessed a rapid growth in research and theorizing about the desistance process, namely the causal mechanisms behind the termination or slowing of offending that frequently accompany adulthood. This flurry of scholarly activity has been spurred by both the ascendance of the life course paradigm of criminology, which examines patterns of criminal offending over the life span, but also by the very real practical demands o…
The color of juvenile justice: Racial disparities in dispositional decisions
Doing time, filling time: Bureaucratic ritualism as a systemic barrier to youth reentry
Conditions of a successful status graduation ceremony: Formerly incarcerated urban youth and their tenuous grip on success
This article offers an ethnographic examination of a graduation ceremony from ‘Santana School’, a reform school targeting youthful drug offenders. After returning to the facility with five former residents, I contend that ceremony was a rare opportunity for these young men to reclaim the carceral experience on their own terms. Wearing their own clothing, using their own language, and playing their own music, they affirmed both their personal choi…
The Mexican Immigration Debate: The View from History
This article uses census microdata to address key issues in the Mexican immigration debate. First, we find striking parallels in the experiences of older and newer immigrant groups with substantial progress among second- and subsequent-generation immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and Mexican Americans. Second, we contradict a view of immigrant history that contends that early–twentieth–century immigrants from southern and eastern Europe…
The New African American Inequality
Journal Article The New African American Inequality Get access Michael B. Katz, Michael B. Katz Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark J. Stern, Mark J. Stern professor of social welfare and history Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jamie J. Fader Jamie J. Fader doctoral student in sociology Search for other works by this author …
I don't have time for drama”: Managing risk and uncertainty through network avoidance
This study employs in‐depth interviews ( n = 45) with men 25–34 years in age who live in a Philadelphia neighborhood heavily impacted by mass incarceration. It asks the following: 1) How do they perceive risk? 2) How do they organize their daily routines in response to it? 3) Are there racial differences in perceptions and adaptations to risk? Nearly all of the men of color in the study reported staying in their houses and avoiding public spaces,…
The New African American Inequality
Journal Article The New African American Inequality Get access Michael B. Katz, Michael B. Katz Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark J. Stern, Mark J. Stern professor of social welfare and history Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jamie J. Fader Jamie J. Fader doctoral student in sociology Search for other works by this author …
The color of juvenile justice: Racial disparities in dispositional decisions
Dealing with Difference in Desistance Theory: The Promise of Intersectionality for New Avenues of Inquiry
The last two decades have witnessed a rapid growth in research and theorizing about the desistance process, namely the causal mechanisms behind the termination or slowing of offending that frequently accompany adulthood. This flurry of scholarly activity has been spurred by both the ascendance of the life course paradigm of criminology, which examines patterns of criminal offending over the life span, but also by the very real practical demands o…
Criminal Family Networks: Criminal Capital and Cost Avoidance among Urban Drug Sellers
This study explores: (1) how criminal family networks facilitate cost avoidance strategies by urban drug sellers and (2) transmission of criminal capital by these networks. Twenty interviews with drug sellers in Philadelphia found that family networks provided unique access to cost avoidance techniques that appeared to reduce offenders' risk of arrest and violent victimization. Transfer of family criminal capital was not limited to mentoring and …
Reducing Crime Among Youth at Risk for Gang Involvement: A Randomized Trial
Research Summary No gang prevention or intervention programs meet the standards for effectiveness promulgated by Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development. This randomized controlled trial of a well‐known program—Functional Family Therapy—that was modified to address the needs of gang‐involved adolescents yields two main findings. First, youth at high risk for gang membership and their families engaged with and successfully completed the program a…
Doing time, filling time: Bureaucratic ritualism as a systemic barrier to youth reentry
Conditions of a successful status graduation ceremony: Formerly incarcerated urban youth and their tenuous grip on success
This article offers an ethnographic examination of a graduation ceremony from ‘Santana School’, a reform school targeting youthful drug offenders. After returning to the facility with five former residents, I contend that ceremony was a rare opportunity for these young men to reclaim the carceral experience on their own terms. Wearing their own clothing, using their own language, and playing their own music, they affirmed both their personal choi…
The New African American Inequality
Journal Article The New African American Inequality Get access Michael B. Katz, Michael B. Katz Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark J. Stern, Mark J. Stern professor of social welfare and history Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jamie J. Fader Jamie J. Fader doctoral student in sociology Search for other works by this author …
The Mexican Immigration Debate: The View from History
This article uses census microdata to address key issues in the Mexican immigration debate. First, we find striking parallels in the experiences of older and newer immigrant groups with substantial progress among second- and subsequent-generation immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and Mexican Americans. Second, we contradict a view of immigrant history that contends that early–twentieth–century immigrants from southern and eastern Europe…
Conditions of a successful status graduation ceremony: Formerly incarcerated urban youth and their tenuous grip on success
This article offers an ethnographic examination of a graduation ceremony from ‘Santana School’, a reform school targeting youthful drug offenders. After returning to the facility with five former residents, I contend that ceremony was a rare opportunity for these young men to reclaim the carceral experience on their own terms. Wearing their own clothing, using their own language, and playing their own music, they affirmed both their personal choi…
Doing time, filling time: Bureaucratic ritualism as a systemic barrier to youth reentry
The color of juvenile justice: Racial disparities in dispositional decisions
Dealing with Difference in Desistance Theory: The Promise of Intersectionality for New Avenues of Inquiry
The last two decades have witnessed a rapid growth in research and theorizing about the desistance process, namely the causal mechanisms behind the termination or slowing of offending that frequently accompany adulthood. This flurry of scholarly activity has been spurred by both the ascendance of the life course paradigm of criminology, which examines patterns of criminal offending over the life span, but also by the very real practical demands o…
Selling smarter, not harder”: Life course effects on drug sellers’ risk perceptions and management
Criminal Family Networks: Criminal Capital and Cost Avoidance among Urban Drug Sellers
This study explores: (1) how criminal family networks facilitate cost avoidance strategies by urban drug sellers and (2) transmission of criminal capital by these networks. Twenty interviews with drug sellers in Philadelphia found that family networks provided unique access to cost avoidance techniques that appeared to reduce offenders' risk of arrest and violent victimization. Transfer of family criminal capital was not limited to mentoring and …
Reducing Crime Among Youth at Risk for Gang Involvement: A Randomized Trial
Research Summary No gang prevention or intervention programs meet the standards for effectiveness promulgated by Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development. This randomized controlled trial of a well‐known program—Functional Family Therapy—that was modified to address the needs of gang‐involved adolescents yields two main findings. First, youth at high risk for gang membership and their families engaged with and successfully completed the program a…
Falling Back: Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood among Urban Youth
Jamie J. Fader documents the transition to adulthood for a particularly vulnerable population: young inner-city men of color who have, by the age of eighteen, already been imprisoned. How, she asks, do such precariously situated youth become adult men? What are the sources of change in their lives? Falling Back is based on over three years of ethnographic research with black and Latino males on the cusp of adulthood and incarcerated at a rural re…
I don't have time for drama”: Managing risk and uncertainty through network avoidance
This study employs in‐depth interviews ( n = 45) with men 25–34 years in age who live in a Philadelphia neighborhood heavily impacted by mass incarceration. It asks the following: 1) How do they perceive risk? 2) How do they organize their daily routines in response to it? 3) Are there racial differences in perceptions and adaptations to risk? Nearly all of the men of color in the study reported staying in their houses and avoiding public spaces,…
Code of the Street 25 Years Later: Lasting Legacies, Empirical Status, and Future Directions
This review, published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Code of the Street (1999), considers the legacies of Elijah Anderson's groundbreaking analysis of the interactional rules for negotiating street violence within the context of racism and structural disadvantage in Philadelphia. Empirical testing has yielded substantial support for Code of the Street’s key arguments. In the process of assessing its generalizability, such …
What’s in a Name? The Framing of Gang Interventions in a City with No “Gangs.”
This study examines an observed contradiction in a city with a high level of group-based youth violence and some juvenile justice stakeholders who deny the presence of gangs. Drawing on interviews and focus groups, we use framing theory to understand how definitions of gangs are constructed and contested. We attend to the language and rhetorical strategies used by stakeholders and find two distinct frames at work which we call “community health” …
“I Don’t Want to Be a Statistic”: Racial-Criminal Stigma, Redemption Bids, and Redemptive Generativity
Within the context of racial caste and the “stickiness” of criminal labels, men struggle to craft positive masculine identities. Contesting racial-criminal stigma requires men of color to challenge controlling images of violent Black men. Analyzing narratives of 45 millennial men in Philadelphia, we identify redemption bids and redemptive generativity as ways of defying social stigma. Redemption, which has been highlighted in the desistance liter…
Handbook on Lived Experience in the Justice System
Political science (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (10 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (10 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works)