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 recent book, On Shifting Ground: Constructing Manhood on the Margins (University of California Press, December 2024) 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. Dr. Fader is also the founder of the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Qualitative Research.
Selected Publications
- *[In Press, November 2025] DCS Handbook of Lived Experience in the Justice System. Handbook of the Division of Corrections and Sentencing, Volume 10. Co-editors: Christopher Dum, Jamie J. Fader, Thomas LeBel, and Kevin Wright. Routledge.
- 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 8302: Advanced Methods & Issues in Criminal Justice Research (Qualitative, graduate)
- CJ 2001: Introduction to Juvenile Justice
- CJ 2401: Nature of Crime
- CJ 4097: Crime, Justice & the American Dream (capstone/WI)