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Jabarey is invested in utilizing community-based research to mitigate the damaging impacts incarceration can have on community functioning and individual health. Specifically, Jabarey researches how carceral systems (prisons, jails, community supervision, policy, etc.) affect the relationship between incarcerated individuals and their communities to influence health and well-being upon reentry/reintegration. He examines factors such as surveillance, institutional access, social support, and policies discriminating against people with criminal records. He intends to bridge these modern-day dynamics to the entrenched systemic intersections of racism, classism, and punishment.
MORE ABOUT JABAREY
Jabarey is an HBCU graduate who has spent much ample time working with communities to organize around housing, gentrification, food access, policing, and incarceration. His community psychology training and qualitative research experiences inform his approach to problems that largely affect Black communities.
DISSERTATION GRANT AWARDEE — FALL 2024
Exploring the Role of Placemaking in Community Response to Carceral Systems
Utilizing a Black geographies lens that provides theoretical grounding for the intersections of space/place, identity, and systems of power, this project will explore the role of place and placemaking in the work of community organizations that focus on providing resources to people impacted by the criminal legal system. This project has the potential to inform a framework of anti-carceral placemaking practices, and highlight the ways that place and landscape are important factors in mitigating the harmful impacts of the criminal legal system.
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