Dr. St. John

Research and publications informing both academia and practice

2025

  • U.S. Jails and Fatal Drug Overdoses: Patterns, Predictors and the Role of Rehabilitative Contexts — Health and Justice

  • Administrative Burden in Higher Education: Race, Criminal Records, and Street‑Level Bureaucrats in College Admissions — Public Administration Review

  • Isolation and Disparities in Jail Suicide Risk: Examining Community, Facility, and Individual Factors — Criminal Justice and Behavior

  • Resilience in Reentry: An Implementation and Impact Evaluation of PREPARE in New York City — Child Trends, Rockville, MD

2024

  • Fortifying Physical and Psychological Wellbeing: Leveraging Capital for Resilience Against Racism and Adversity Across Racial Groups — Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

2023

  • Police Station Design and Intrusive Police Encounters: Untangling Variations in Emotions and Behaviorally‑Relevant Perceptions Across Racial Groups — Policing and Society

  • Regions of Discrimination: Felony Records, Race, and Expressed College Admissions Policies — Journal of Crime and Justice

  • Blood on the Walls: The Influence of Place Management on Jail and Prison Victimization — Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Design — Palgrave Macmillan (Edited Volume)

  • Supporting Students Experiencing Homelessness Involved in the Criminal Justice System — National Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Neglected or Delinquent Children and Youth, Washington, D.C.

2022

  • In Their Experience: A Review of Racial and Sexual Minority Experience in Academe and Proposals for Building an Inclusive Criminology — Race and Justice

  • Safe by Design: An Exploration of Jail‑based Injury Across New York City — Journal of Correctional Health Care

  • Reducing Adverse Police Contact Would Heal Wounds for Children and Their Communities — Child Trends, Bethesda, MD

  • Award: Time‑Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences’ Lupia‑Mutz Outstanding Publication Award

2021

  • The Psychology of Justice Buildings: An Experiment on Police Architecture, Public Sentiment, and Race — Journal of Criminal Justice

  • Getting to Outcomes in Juvenile Justice Education Using Title 1 Part D Program Data — National Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Neglected or Delinquent Children and Youth, Washington, D.C.

  • Coparenting and Healthy Relationship and Marriage Education for Dads (CHaRMED): Results from a Qualitative Study of Staff and Participant Experiences in Nine Fatherhood Programs — Child Trends, Bethesda, MD

  • Effective Transition Back to School During COVID‑19 — National Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Neglected or Delinquent Children and Youth, Washington, D.C.

2020

  • Placial Justice: Restoring Rehabilitation and Correctional Legitimacy through Architectural Design — SAGE Open

  • Architectural Design for Mental Health Treatment: Preliminary Findings of Service Provision Using a Space, Layout, and Setting Framework — Advancing Corrections Journal

  • “Vilify Them Night After Night”: Anti‑Black Drug Policies, Mass Incarceration, and Pathways Forward — Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy

  • Resources to Support Children’s Emotional Well‑Being Amid Anti‑Black Racism, Racial Violence, and Trauma — Child Trends, Bethesda, MD

  • Recommendations for Addressing Bias in Risk and Needs Assessments in the Juvenile Justice System — Child Trends, Bethesda, MD

  • Jails vs. Prisons — In Criminal Justice in America: The Encyclopedia of Crime, Law Enforcement, Courts, and Corrections, ABC‑CLIO

  • Prison Overcrowding — In Criminal Justice in America: The Encyclopedia of Crime, Law Enforcement, Courts, and Corrections, ABC‑CLIO

  • Deprivation Model — In Criminal Justice in America: The Encyclopedia of Crime, Law Enforcement, Courts, and Corrections, ABC‑CLIO

2019

  • Architecture and Correctional Services: A Facilities Approach to Treatment — The Prison Journal

  • Probation and Race in the 1980s: A Quantitative Examination of Felonious Rearrests and Minority Threat Theory — Race and Social Problems

  • Going Back to College? Criminal Stigma in Higher Education Admissions in Northeastern U.S. — Critical Criminology

  • Place, Space, Race, and Life After Incarceration: Dismantling Mass Incarceration Through Spatial and Placial Justice — Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy

2018

  • Inside The Osborne Association’s Prepare Program — Research and Evaluation Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

  • Spatial Justice: Legitimacy through Openness, Transparency, and Inclusiveness in Correctional Design — Corrections Today, American Correctional Association

  • Beccaria — In American Prisons and Jails: An Encyclopedia of Controversies and Trends, ABC‑CLIO

  • Prison Designs — In American Prisons and Jails: An Encyclopedia of Controversies and Trends, ABC‑CLIO

  • Recidivism — In American Prisons and Jails: An Encyclopedia of Controversies and Trends, ABC‑CLIO

  • Total Institutions — In American Prisons and Jails: An Encyclopedia of Controversies and Trends, ABC‑CLIO

2017

  • Manufactured “Mismatch”: Cultural Incongruence and Black Experience in the Academy — Race and Justice

  • Psychology of Space: Enhancing Legitimacy through Open, Transparent, and Inclusive Facilities for Police and the Public — Police Chief Magazine, International Association of Chiefs of Police

  • “Manufactured” Mismatch? — Office for the Advancement of Research, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

  • Award: American Society of Criminology Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice Best Journal Article Award