Sukhmani Singh
Biographic Data
| ID | 6086763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sukhmani Singh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sukhmani |
| FAMILY NAME | Singh |
| SIGNATURE | SINGH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8752-5982 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Moving from manufactured ambivalence to building power: Recommendations for voter engagement interventions through a participatory project with formerly incarcerated people
Felony re‐enfranchisement efforts have expanded voting rights of formerly incarcerated people (FIP) across 26 states. Despite progress, research demonstrates low voter turnout and civic participation among this structurally marginalized population. We conducted a community‐based participatory research project, rooted in the framework of critical consciousness, to understand how FIP experience voting. We conducted five semi‐structured focus groups…
Critical Hope and Resistance through Collective Poetic Inquiry: A Response to Federal Attacks on Queer and Trans Communities by Scholar-Advocates
In early 2025, the US federal government made sweeping and targeted attacks that affect queer, trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive (QT and TGE) communities across the United States with the most harmful attacks directed at TGE youth and adults and those situated at marginalized sociostructural intersections. As scholars in an academic social work program who sit at the intersections of marginalized sociostructural locations, are allies/accompl…
Even as a Probation Officer, We’re all Very Much Aware That We’re Black First: ” An Intersectional Examination of How Probation Officers Experience System Legitimacy
This study focuses on how 27 frontline and supervisory probation officers (71% women, 67% Black) view the criminal legal system (CLS), utilizing intersectionality as an analytical framework. We present two themes: probation as ‘minor,’ and the CLS is a manifestation of societal racial oppression. Within each theme we detail sub-themes and highlight where we noted differences for probation officers across the intersections of race/gender/and insti…
Disentangling Dispositions: Varying Juvenile Court Responses and Outcomes for Girls
Extant research on juvenile legal system (JLS) involved girls generally focuses on individual and proximal environmental levels that bring girls into contact with the JLS. There is less research on how the JLS responds to girls in case dispositions (e.g., sanction-based responses, treatment-focused services), and how combinations of dispositions relate to girls’ further system involvement. In this study, we apply latent class analysis (LCA) to th…
Complicating critical discussions in gender sexuality alliances: Youth desire for intersectional conversations and the experience of fragmentation
Gender sexuality alliances (GSAs) represent consciousness-raisings that hold potential for critical consciousness development in youth. In this study, we focus on critical reflection-the understanding that oppression is structured and maintained by human action. We engage intersectionality as our analytical framework and analyze both student interview data (n = 38) and advisor closed-ended and open-ended survey data (n = 58) to examine: (1) the n…
Roses have thorns for a reason”: The promises and perils of critical youth participatory research with system‐impacted girls of Color
Scholarship on girlhood—especially for girls of Color—is often relegated to studying risk and emphasizing individual deficits over humanizing girls and centering their voices. This approach to generating scholarship renders oppressive systems and processes invisible from inquiry and unaddressed by practice, with particularly insidious consequences for youth in the legal system. Critical youth participatory action research (YPAR) is acknowledged a…
Persistent Paternalism: The Instantiation of Gendered Attributions in the System Response to Girls
Prior research suggests that the juvenile legal system does too little to address the sources and underlying reasons for girls’ court referrals. Drawing on attribution theories, the current study examined perspectives that characterize the response of the system to girls’ behaviors. Data from this study were derived from a multimethod, qualitative study on system-involved girls. We find that court actors hold gendered attributions of girls’ delin…
When Diversity is Not Enough: An Intersectional Examination of How Juvenile Legal System Actors of Color Experience the System’s Welfare Mandate for Girls of Color
System actors of color are considered a key intervention to reduce disparities in the juvenile legal system precisely because they share intersectional experiences of oppression similar to those experienced by system‐involved youth. In this study, we interrogate the assumption that diversifying the workforce can remedy intersectional disparities in youth outcomes. Grounded in intersectionality, we analyzed semi‐structured interviews with 17 (12 w…
Traumatic Incidents and Experiences of Racism and Sexism: Examining Associations with Components of Critical Consciousness for System‐Involved Girls of Color
Scholarship identifies critical consciousness as a key developmental asset in promoting the well‐being of adolescents experiencing multiple socio‐structural axes of oppression. Girls of color at acute risk for legal system involvement or re‐involvement are absent from this literature. They are a critical population in which to examine this construct given their experiences of oppression and the myriad benefits of critical consciousness. The curre…
Factor structure of the critical consciousness scale in juvenile legal system‐involved boys and girls
The Critical Consciousness Scale (CCS) is a recently developed and validated measure for use with low‐income, diverse adolescents. However, research on the psychometric properties of this scale with juvenile legal system‐involved youth is lacking. This study examines the psychometric properties of the critical reflection subscales of the CCS in a cross‐sectional sample of 206 youth (48% girls) involved in the juvenile legal system to investigate …
The Praxis of Decoloniality in Researcher Training and Community‐Based Data Collection
In this paper, we detail our praxis of decoloniality in the context of a community‐based study that employs a quantitative experimental methodology to evaluate an intervention for girls involved in the juvenile legal system. We resist the essentializing of methodology that positions quantitative paradigms as impermeable to reflexivity and decoloniality, and describe a model for training and supervising researchers engaged in an experimental rando…
Negotiating Ethical Paradoxes in Conducting a Randomized Controlled Trial: Aligning Intervention Science with Participatory Values
In this article, we describe ethical tensions we have faced in the context of our work as intervention scientists, where we aim to promote social justice and change systems that impact girls involved in the juvenile legal system. These ethical tensions are, at their core, about resisting collusion with systems of control while simultaneously collaborating with them. Over the course of designing and implementing a randomized controlled trial ( RCT…
Maternal familismo and early childhood functioning in Mexican and Dominican immigrant families
A large theoretical and empirical literature documents the central role of familismo (i.e., a strong emphasis on family) in the functioning of Latino youth. Few studies, however, have examined its association with early childhood functioning. The present study explored the potential risk and protective effects of maternal familismo on the adaptive and mental health functioning of 4 - 5 year old Latino children. A sample of 205 Mexican and 147 Dom…
The Praxis of Decoloniality in Researcher Training and Community‐Based Data Collection
In this paper, we detail our praxis of decoloniality in the context of a community‐based study that employs a quantitative experimental methodology to evaluate an intervention for girls involved in the juvenile legal system. We resist the essentializing of methodology that positions quantitative paradigms as impermeable to reflexivity and decoloniality, and describe a model for training and supervising researchers engaged in an experimental rando…
Negotiating Ethical Paradoxes in Conducting a Randomized Controlled Trial: Aligning Intervention Science with Participatory Values
In this article, we describe ethical tensions we have faced in the context of our work as intervention scientists, where we aim to promote social justice and change systems that impact girls involved in the juvenile legal system. These ethical tensions are, at their core, about resisting collusion with systems of control while simultaneously collaborating with them. Over the course of designing and implementing a randomized controlled trial ( RCT…
Factor structure of the critical consciousness scale in juvenile legal system‐involved boys and girls
The Critical Consciousness Scale (CCS) is a recently developed and validated measure for use with low‐income, diverse adolescents. However, research on the psychometric properties of this scale with juvenile legal system‐involved youth is lacking. This study examines the psychometric properties of the critical reflection subscales of the CCS in a cross‐sectional sample of 206 youth (48% girls) involved in the juvenile legal system to investigate …
Maternal familismo and early childhood functioning in Mexican and Dominican immigrant families
A large theoretical and empirical literature documents the central role of familismo (i.e., a strong emphasis on family) in the functioning of Latino youth. Few studies, however, have examined its association with early childhood functioning. The present study explored the potential risk and protective effects of maternal familismo on the adaptive and mental health functioning of 4 - 5 year old Latino children. A sample of 205 Mexican and 147 Dom…
Roses have thorns for a reason”: The promises and perils of critical youth participatory research with system‐impacted girls of Color
Scholarship on girlhood—especially for girls of Color—is often relegated to studying risk and emphasizing individual deficits over humanizing girls and centering their voices. This approach to generating scholarship renders oppressive systems and processes invisible from inquiry and unaddressed by practice, with particularly insidious consequences for youth in the legal system. Critical youth participatory action research (YPAR) is acknowledged a…
Traumatic Incidents and Experiences of Racism and Sexism: Examining Associations with Components of Critical Consciousness for System‐Involved Girls of Color
Scholarship identifies critical consciousness as a key developmental asset in promoting the well‐being of adolescents experiencing multiple socio‐structural axes of oppression. Girls of color at acute risk for legal system involvement or re‐involvement are absent from this literature. They are a critical population in which to examine this construct given their experiences of oppression and the myriad benefits of critical consciousness. The curre…
Complicating critical discussions in gender sexuality alliances: Youth desire for intersectional conversations and the experience of fragmentation
Gender sexuality alliances (GSAs) represent consciousness-raisings that hold potential for critical consciousness development in youth. In this study, we focus on critical reflection-the understanding that oppression is structured and maintained by human action. We engage intersectionality as our analytical framework and analyze both student interview data (n = 38) and advisor closed-ended and open-ended survey data (n = 58) to examine: (1) the n…
When Diversity is Not Enough: An Intersectional Examination of How Juvenile Legal System Actors of Color Experience the System’s Welfare Mandate for Girls of Color
System actors of color are considered a key intervention to reduce disparities in the juvenile legal system precisely because they share intersectional experiences of oppression similar to those experienced by system‐involved youth. In this study, we interrogate the assumption that diversifying the workforce can remedy intersectional disparities in youth outcomes. Grounded in intersectionality, we analyzed semi‐structured interviews with 17 (12 w…
Maternal familismo and early childhood functioning in Mexican and Dominican immigrant families
A large theoretical and empirical literature documents the central role of familismo (i.e., a strong emphasis on family) in the functioning of Latino youth. Few studies, however, have examined its association with early childhood functioning. The present study explored the potential risk and protective effects of maternal familismo on the adaptive and mental health functioning of 4 - 5 year old Latino children. A sample of 205 Mexican and 147 Dom…
Negotiating Ethical Paradoxes in Conducting a Randomized Controlled Trial: Aligning Intervention Science with Participatory Values
In this article, we describe ethical tensions we have faced in the context of our work as intervention scientists, where we aim to promote social justice and change systems that impact girls involved in the juvenile legal system. These ethical tensions are, at their core, about resisting collusion with systems of control while simultaneously collaborating with them. Over the course of designing and implementing a randomized controlled trial ( RCT…
The Praxis of Decoloniality in Researcher Training and Community‐Based Data Collection
In this paper, we detail our praxis of decoloniality in the context of a community‐based study that employs a quantitative experimental methodology to evaluate an intervention for girls involved in the juvenile legal system. We resist the essentializing of methodology that positions quantitative paradigms as impermeable to reflexivity and decoloniality, and describe a model for training and supervising researchers engaged in an experimental rando…
Factor structure of the critical consciousness scale in juvenile legal system‐involved boys and girls
The Critical Consciousness Scale (CCS) is a recently developed and validated measure for use with low‐income, diverse adolescents. However, research on the psychometric properties of this scale with juvenile legal system‐involved youth is lacking. This study examines the psychometric properties of the critical reflection subscales of the CCS in a cross‐sectional sample of 206 youth (48% girls) involved in the juvenile legal system to investigate …
Traumatic Incidents and Experiences of Racism and Sexism: Examining Associations with Components of Critical Consciousness for System‐Involved Girls of Color
Scholarship identifies critical consciousness as a key developmental asset in promoting the well‐being of adolescents experiencing multiple socio‐structural axes of oppression. Girls of color at acute risk for legal system involvement or re‐involvement are absent from this literature. They are a critical population in which to examine this construct given their experiences of oppression and the myriad benefits of critical consciousness. The curre…
When Diversity is Not Enough: An Intersectional Examination of How Juvenile Legal System Actors of Color Experience the System’s Welfare Mandate for Girls of Color
System actors of color are considered a key intervention to reduce disparities in the juvenile legal system precisely because they share intersectional experiences of oppression similar to those experienced by system‐involved youth. In this study, we interrogate the assumption that diversifying the workforce can remedy intersectional disparities in youth outcomes. Grounded in intersectionality, we analyzed semi‐structured interviews with 17 (12 w…
Persistent Paternalism: The Instantiation of Gendered Attributions in the System Response to Girls
Prior research suggests that the juvenile legal system does too little to address the sources and underlying reasons for girls’ court referrals. Drawing on attribution theories, the current study examined perspectives that characterize the response of the system to girls’ behaviors. Data from this study were derived from a multimethod, qualitative study on system-involved girls. We find that court actors hold gendered attributions of girls’ delin…
Disentangling Dispositions: Varying Juvenile Court Responses and Outcomes for Girls
Extant research on juvenile legal system (JLS) involved girls generally focuses on individual and proximal environmental levels that bring girls into contact with the JLS. There is less research on how the JLS responds to girls in case dispositions (e.g., sanction-based responses, treatment-focused services), and how combinations of dispositions relate to girls’ further system involvement. In this study, we apply latent class analysis (LCA) to th…
Complicating critical discussions in gender sexuality alliances: Youth desire for intersectional conversations and the experience of fragmentation
Gender sexuality alliances (GSAs) represent consciousness-raisings that hold potential for critical consciousness development in youth. In this study, we focus on critical reflection-the understanding that oppression is structured and maintained by human action. We engage intersectionality as our analytical framework and analyze both student interview data (n = 38) and advisor closed-ended and open-ended survey data (n = 58) to examine: (1) the n…
Roses have thorns for a reason”: The promises and perils of critical youth participatory research with system‐impacted girls of Color
Scholarship on girlhood—especially for girls of Color—is often relegated to studying risk and emphasizing individual deficits over humanizing girls and centering their voices. This approach to generating scholarship renders oppressive systems and processes invisible from inquiry and unaddressed by practice, with particularly insidious consequences for youth in the legal system. Critical youth participatory action research (YPAR) is acknowledged a…
Critical Hope and Resistance through Collective Poetic Inquiry: A Response to Federal Attacks on Queer and Trans Communities by Scholar-Advocates
In early 2025, the US federal government made sweeping and targeted attacks that affect queer, trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive (QT and TGE) communities across the United States with the most harmful attacks directed at TGE youth and adults and those situated at marginalized sociostructural intersections. As scholars in an academic social work program who sit at the intersections of marginalized sociostructural locations, are allies/accompl…
Even as a Probation Officer, We’re all Very Much Aware That We’re Black First: ” An Intersectional Examination of How Probation Officers Experience System Legitimacy
This study focuses on how 27 frontline and supervisory probation officers (71% women, 67% Black) view the criminal legal system (CLS), utilizing intersectionality as an analytical framework. We present two themes: probation as ‘minor,’ and the CLS is a manifestation of societal racial oppression. Within each theme we detail sub-themes and highlight where we noted differences for probation officers across the intersections of race/gender/and insti…
Moving from manufactured ambivalence to building power: Recommendations for voter engagement interventions through a participatory project with formerly incarcerated people
Felony re‐enfranchisement efforts have expanded voting rights of formerly incarcerated people (FIP) across 26 states. Despite progress, research demonstrates low voter turnout and civic participation among this structurally marginalized population. We conducted a community‐based participatory research project, rooted in the framework of critical consciousness, to understand how FIP experience voting. We conducted five semi‐structured focus groups…
Political science (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (4 works)