Nikki Jones

I am a professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. I write about the impact of violence, policing, and the criminal legal system on Black people in urban settings, especially Black youth. Before joining the faculty at Cal, I was on faculty in the Department of Sociology at UC-Santa Barbara (from 2004-2013). I earned my PhD in Sociology and Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004.

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