Who's in the pipeline? A survey of African-Americans in doctoral programs in criminology and criminal justice

Career choices and characteristics of African-American undergraduates majoring in criminal justice at historically black colleges and universities

“…Currently, :most of the available scholarship on African-Americans and criminal justice education focuses on either their experience at the graduate level (Berg and Bing 1990;Edwards, Bennett, White and Pezzella 1998a), post-graduate level (del Carmen and Bing 2000;Edwards, White, Bennett, and Pezzella 1998b;Gabbidon 2002b;Gilbert and Tatum 1999;Ross and Edwards 1998) or both (Bing, Heard, and Gilbert 1995;Heard and Bing 1993). This article, on the other hand, aims to investigate the following research questions as the), relate to African-American undergraduates majoring in criminal justice at HBCUs: first, why" have African-American undergraduates at HBCUs selected criminal justice as their major?…”

Mentoring in academe: Models for facilitating academic development

“…Not only has gender been the basis fbr studies concerning mentoring relationships, but Edwards, White, Bennett, and Pezzella (1998) addressed the issue of race. They proposed that African American students are more likely to receive fellowships that require no teaching or research.…”

Publication outlets for criminology and criminal justice scholars: A look at race and ethnicity journals

“…Lower publication rates in these venues are often attributed to research topics, challenges to traditional assumptions, and the frequent lack of minority representation on editorial boards (Arrigo 1999;Edwards, White, Bennett, and Pezella 1998;Ross and MeMcurray 1996;Staples 1984;Young and Sulton 1996). African American criminology and criminal justice faculty, for example, devote a large proportion of their research to racial minority issues (Edwards, White, Bennett, and Pezzella 1998;Ross and Edwards 1998). This type of scholarship, especially from a critical approach, may be viewed as being too narrow (e.g., only examining African Americans) or too subjective (e.g., lacking a value free analysis) by mainstream journals (Wilson and Moyer 1995).…”

“…Because mainstream publications play an important role in determining academic success (e.g., promotion and tenure, notability), African American scholars usually attempt to publish in both mainstream and race and ethnicity journals Wilson and Moyer 1995). 2 Greater publication success, however, is reported for race and ethnieity journals when compared to mainstream journals (Del Carmen and Bing 2000;Edwards, et al 1998). Arguably, this is the result of the emphasis of race and ethnicity journals on different cultural perspectives, non-traditional topics, and research methods.…”