Expertise
Stigma/Criminalization of Youth, Life Course, Race/Gender, Corrections, Qualitative Research Methods
Biography
Dr. Fader uses the life course perspective and qualitative research to examine how contact with the criminal legal system impacts lived experiences and identity construction for criminalized youth and boys/ men of color. She is the author of Falling Back: Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood among Urban Youth, which was recognized as the best book of 2016 by the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
Her forthcoming book, On Shifting Ground: Constructing Manhood on the Margins (University of California Press, December 2023) draws on life course interviews with 45 men in Philadelphia to examine how they manage age-graded and gendered expectations during a time of diminished economic opportunities and the expanding reach of the criminal legal system.
Selected Publications
- Fader, Jamie J. 2024. On Shifting Ground: Constructing Manhood on the Margins. 2024. University of California Press, Gender and Justice Series (ed. Claire Renzetti). Fader, Jamie J. and León, Kenneth Sebastian. 2024.
- Code of the Street 25 Years Later: Lasting Legacies, Empirical Status, and Future Directions. Annual Review of Criminology. Fader, Jamie J., Abigail Henson, & Jesse Brey. 2022.
- “I Don’t Want to be a Statistic”: Racial-Criminal Stigma and Redemptive Generativity.” Crime & Delinquency. --Winner of the William L. Simon/Routledge Outstanding Paper Award, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
- Fader, Jamie J. 2021.“I Don’t Have Time for Drama”: Managing Risk and Uncertainty through Network Avoidance. Criminology. 59(2): 291-317. Fader, Jamie J.
- Falling Back: Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood Among Urban Youth. Rutgers University Press.
-- 2016 Michael J. Hindelang Book Award, American Society of Criminology
-- 2016 Outstanding Book Award, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
-- 2014 Honorable Mention, Distinguished Book Award, Race, Gender, and Class Section, American Sociological Association
-- 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Courses Taught
- CJ 8106: Theories of Crime and Deviance
- CJ 8202: Corrections (graduate)
- CJ 8204: Policy and Practice in Juvenile Justice (graduate)
- CJ 2001: Introduction to Juvenile Justice
- CJ 2401: Nature of Crime
- CJ 4097: Crime, Justice & the American Dream (capstone/WI)