A J Powell
Biographic Data
| ID | 7262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A J Powell |
| GIVEN NAMES | A J |
| FAMILY NAME | Powell |
| SIGNATURE | POWELL A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9702-3115 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Abolition Feminist Storytelling as Methodology: Lessons Within the Stories We (Re)Tell About Punishment and Violence
This paper engages abolition feminist storytelling as a methodology for feminist criminologists to identify, reflect on, grapple with, and ultimately confront carceral logics in the stories we (re)tell about violence and punishment. Drawing on over a decade’s worth of research, advocacy, and community organizing, we identify three carceral tensions that emerged within our own storytelling: the victim-offender binary, researcher complicity, and a …
“You just feel re-violated”: Coercive sexual control in juvenile detention
Despite political calls on the state to “protect the children” from sexual violence, feminist scholars argue the state itself reproduces routine gender-based violence toward incarcerated communities, including youth. Building upon this work, I draw from twenty-three life history interviews with formerly incarcerated cis- and transgender men and women survivors to show how carceral norms facilitate a system of coercive sexual control. I define coe…
Incarcerated Girls, Credibility, and Sexual Misconduct in Juvenile Detention Facilities
How do correctional authorities and advocates frame girls’ sexual victimization during incarceration? Drawing from 34 interviews with Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) personnel, youth advocates for incarcerated girls, and technical assistance providers, I argue that correctional institutions serve as sites where advocates actively construct and contest incarcerated girls’ credibility as victims of youth-on-youth and staff-on-youth sexual miscon…
We Keep us Safe: Abolition Feminism as a Challenge to Carceral Feminist Responses to Gendered Violence
The well-known movement chant “we keep us safe” disrupts carceral logics that deem policing—and the criminal punishment system more broadly—as sites of public safety and protection from violence and instead situates the source of safety within the community. Nevertheless, activist calls for community-centered alternatives to harm and violence occur alongside increasing backlash from media, legislators, and community members alike, who assert that…
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
Gendered racial vulnerability: How women confront crime and criminalization
Prior research illustrates how race-class subjugated communities are over-policed and under-protected, producing high rates of victimization by other community members and the police. Yet few studies explore how gender and race structure dual frustration, despite a long line of Black feminist scholarship on the interpersonal, gender-based, and state violence Black and other women of color face. Drawing on interviews with 53 women in Minneapolis f…
We're Still Dying Quicker Than We Can Effect Change: BlackLivesMatter and the Limits of 21st-Century Policing Reform
Black Lives Matter protests in the mid-2010s thrust police violence into the public spotlight, highlighting the stark racial divide in experiences with law enforcement and prompting a wave of police reform. We examine how residents in low-income neighborhoods on the Northside of Minneapolis, Minnesota, made sense of this focus on police violence and reform across racial lines. Drawing on interviews with a diverse sample of 112 adults, we show tha…
Jennifer Cobbina, Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter and How they Changed America
Intersectionality and Credibility in Child Sexual Assault Trials
Children remain largely absent from sociolegal scholarship on sexual violence. Taking an intersectional approach to the analysis of attorneys' strategies during child sexual assault trials, this article argues that legal narratives draw on existing gender, racial, and age stereotypes to present legally compelling evidence of credibility. This work builds on Crenshaw's focus on women of color, emphasizing the role of structures of power and inequa…
A novel method for integrated age and sex determination from archaeological cattle mandibles
An assessment of the magnetic response of an iron-smelting site
An assessment of the magnetic response of an iron‐smelting site
The magnetic response derived from an iron‐smelting site was investigated by comparing magnetometry and magnetic susceptibility geophysical survey data and laboratory analyses of the magnetic characteristics of the furnace and slags. Magnetic analysis and microscopy (optical and SEM) of samples from the furnace lining and the slag deposits demonstrated the heterogeneity in the magnetic, morphological and mineral compositions of both materials. Th…
Gendered racial vulnerability: How women confront crime and criminalization
Prior research illustrates how race-class subjugated communities are over-policed and under-protected, producing high rates of victimization by other community members and the police. Yet few studies explore how gender and race structure dual frustration, despite a long line of Black feminist scholarship on the interpersonal, gender-based, and state violence Black and other women of color face. Drawing on interviews with 53 women in Minneapolis f…
Intersectionality and Credibility in Child Sexual Assault Trials
Children remain largely absent from sociolegal scholarship on sexual violence. Taking an intersectional approach to the analysis of attorneys' strategies during child sexual assault trials, this article argues that legal narratives draw on existing gender, racial, and age stereotypes to present legally compelling evidence of credibility. This work builds on Crenshaw's focus on women of color, emphasizing the role of structures of power and inequa…
We're Still Dying Quicker Than We Can Effect Change: BlackLivesMatter and the Limits of 21st-Century Policing Reform
Black Lives Matter protests in the mid-2010s thrust police violence into the public spotlight, highlighting the stark racial divide in experiences with law enforcement and prompting a wave of police reform. We examine how residents in low-income neighborhoods on the Northside of Minneapolis, Minnesota, made sense of this focus on police violence and reform across racial lines. Drawing on interviews with a diverse sample of 112 adults, we show tha…
A novel method for integrated age and sex determination from archaeological cattle mandibles
We Keep us Safe: Abolition Feminism as a Challenge to Carceral Feminist Responses to Gendered Violence
The well-known movement chant “we keep us safe” disrupts carceral logics that deem policing—and the criminal punishment system more broadly—as sites of public safety and protection from violence and instead situates the source of safety within the community. Nevertheless, activist calls for community-centered alternatives to harm and violence occur alongside increasing backlash from media, legislators, and community members alike, who assert that…
An assessment of the magnetic response of an iron-smelting site
An assessment of the magnetic response of an iron‐smelting site
The magnetic response derived from an iron‐smelting site was investigated by comparing magnetometry and magnetic susceptibility geophysical survey data and laboratory analyses of the magnetic characteristics of the furnace and slags. Magnetic analysis and microscopy (optical and SEM) of samples from the furnace lining and the slag deposits demonstrated the heterogeneity in the magnetic, morphological and mineral compositions of both materials. Th…
An assessment of the magnetic response of an iron-smelting site
An assessment of the magnetic response of an iron‐smelting site
The magnetic response derived from an iron‐smelting site was investigated by comparing magnetometry and magnetic susceptibility geophysical survey data and laboratory analyses of the magnetic characteristics of the furnace and slags. Magnetic analysis and microscopy (optical and SEM) of samples from the furnace lining and the slag deposits demonstrated the heterogeneity in the magnetic, morphological and mineral compositions of both materials. Th…
A novel method for integrated age and sex determination from archaeological cattle mandibles
Intersectionality and Credibility in Child Sexual Assault Trials
Children remain largely absent from sociolegal scholarship on sexual violence. Taking an intersectional approach to the analysis of attorneys' strategies during child sexual assault trials, this article argues that legal narratives draw on existing gender, racial, and age stereotypes to present legally compelling evidence of credibility. This work builds on Crenshaw's focus on women of color, emphasizing the role of structures of power and inequa…
Jennifer Cobbina, Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter and How they Changed America
Gendered racial vulnerability: How women confront crime and criminalization
Prior research illustrates how race-class subjugated communities are over-policed and under-protected, producing high rates of victimization by other community members and the police. Yet few studies explore how gender and race structure dual frustration, despite a long line of Black feminist scholarship on the interpersonal, gender-based, and state violence Black and other women of color face. Drawing on interviews with 53 women in Minneapolis f…
We're Still Dying Quicker Than We Can Effect Change: BlackLivesMatter and the Limits of 21st-Century Policing Reform
Black Lives Matter protests in the mid-2010s thrust police violence into the public spotlight, highlighting the stark racial divide in experiences with law enforcement and prompting a wave of police reform. We examine how residents in low-income neighborhoods on the Northside of Minneapolis, Minnesota, made sense of this focus on police violence and reform across racial lines. Drawing on interviews with a diverse sample of 112 adults, we show tha…
We Keep us Safe: Abolition Feminism as a Challenge to Carceral Feminist Responses to Gendered Violence
The well-known movement chant “we keep us safe” disrupts carceral logics that deem policing—and the criminal punishment system more broadly—as sites of public safety and protection from violence and instead situates the source of safety within the community. Nevertheless, activist calls for community-centered alternatives to harm and violence occur alongside increasing backlash from media, legislators, and community members alike, who assert that…
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
“You just feel re-violated”: Coercive sexual control in juvenile detention
Despite political calls on the state to “protect the children” from sexual violence, feminist scholars argue the state itself reproduces routine gender-based violence toward incarcerated communities, including youth. Building upon this work, I draw from twenty-three life history interviews with formerly incarcerated cis- and transgender men and women survivors to show how carceral norms facilitate a system of coercive sexual control. I define coe…
Incarcerated Girls, Credibility, and Sexual Misconduct in Juvenile Detention Facilities
How do correctional authorities and advocates frame girls’ sexual victimization during incarceration? Drawing from 34 interviews with Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) personnel, youth advocates for incarcerated girls, and technical assistance providers, I argue that correctional institutions serve as sites where advocates actively construct and contest incarcerated girls’ credibility as victims of youth-on-youth and staff-on-youth sexual miscon…
Abolition Feminist Storytelling as Methodology: Lessons Within the Stories We (Re)Tell About Punishment and Violence
This paper engages abolition feminist storytelling as a methodology for feminist criminologists to identify, reflect on, grapple with, and ultimately confront carceral logics in the stories we (re)tell about violence and punishment. Drawing on over a decade’s worth of research, advocacy, and community organizing, we identify three carceral tensions that emerged within our own storytelling: the victim-offender binary, researcher complicity, and a …
Political science (8 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Geology (3 works)