Books By Yasser Arafat Payne, Brooklynn Hitchens, Darryl L. Chambers - Author

YASSER ARAFAT PAYNE is a professor of sociology in the department of sociology and criminal justice; and the department of Africana studies at the University of Delaware. Dr. Payne completed his Ph.D. in social-personality psychology and postdoctoral fellowship (National Institute of Drug Abuse) in New York City's largest jail, Rikers Island. Dr. Payne's street ethnographic research program draws on a methodological framework entitled: StreetParticipatory Action Research- the process of involving members of street identified populations in research and local activism. Also, Dr. Payne's research program focuses on street culture; gun violence; policing and reentry; experiences with work and school; and Gangster Rap music and culture.
 

BROOKLYNN KRISTINA HITCHENS is an assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Maryland. She recently completed a Postdoc in the Department (2020-2021). She is a sociologist and critical criminologist who