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Dr. Justin Turner

Assistant Professor
Sociology and Anthropology
Office
SCH Schroeder Hall 332
  • About
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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

SOC 106.002 Introduction To Sociology

SOC 360.001 Serial Killers in Society

SOC 360.002 Serial Killers in Society

SOC 270.001 Sociological Theory

SOC 495.002 Special Topics In Sociology

SOC 291.006 Undergraduate Teaching Experience In Sociology-Anthropology

Teaching Interests & Areas

Criminology

Research Interests & Areas

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

Journal Article

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17416590241231232

Turner, J. Book Review: Macrocriminology and Freedom. Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime 5.1 (2024): 75-77.
Triplett, R., & Turner, J. Revisiting Akers' Social Structure and Social Learning from a Problem-Solving Approach: Symbolic Interactionism, Humans as Acting, and Social Structure. DEVIANT BEHAVIOR 44.2 (2023): 16.

Presentations

Author Meets Critics: Policing Environmental Protest: Power and Resistance in Pandemic. American Society of Criminology. (2024)
Habituating the Police. Society for the Study of Social Problems. (2024)
Razing the “House of Screams:” Teaching, Learning, and Living the Reparations Won Curriculum. African American Studies Fall Lecture series. African American Studies. (2024)
Author Meets Critics: The Horror of Police. American Society of Criminology. (2023)

Grants & Contracts

African American Studies Faculty Summer Research Initiative. African American Studies. Illinois State University. (2024)
URG-NFIG. Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (2024)