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Dr. Justin Turner

Assistant Professor
Office
SCH Schroeder Hall 332
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Biography

Justin Turner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Current Courses

SOC 106.002 Introduction To Sociology

Teaching Interests & Areas

Criminology

Research Interests & Areas

Critical Police Studies, Crime and Media, Security Studies, and Social Theory

Grants and Contracts

African American Studies Faculty Summer Research Initiative
Kaitlyn J Selman, Justin Turner.
African American Studies. 2024 - 2024
URG-NFIG
Justin Turner.
Illinois State University. June 1 2024 - August 1 2024

Presentations

“Raising the ‘House of Screams’: Teaching, Learning, and Living the Reparations Won Curriculum”.
Kaitlyn J Selman, Justin Turner, Hannah Carson Bagget.
American Society of Criminology, Washington, DC., November 12, 2025
Author Meets Critics: Policing Environmental Protest: Power and Resistance in Pandemic
Justin Turner.
American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, November 17, 2024
Razing the “House of Screams:” Teaching, Learning, and Living the Reparations Won Curriculum
Kaitlyn J Selman, Justin Turner.
African American Studies Fall Lecture series, Normal, IL, October 25, 2024
Habituating the Police
Justin Turner.
Society for the Study of Social Problems, Montreal, CA, August 13, 2024
Author Meets Critics: The Horror of Police
Justin Turner.
American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, November 16, 2023