PUBLICATIONS

Police Use of Force by Ethnicity, Sex, and Socioeconomic Class Robert O. Motley Jr. and Sean Joe (2018) Objective Disparities in police responses to Black and White people have received significant research and public attention in recent years. This study examines self-reported accounts of exposure to and perceptions of police use of force among Black […]

Objective: Disparities in police responses to Black and White people have received significant research and public attention in recent years. This study examines self-reported accounts of exposure to and perceptions of police use of force among Black and White ethnic groups by sex and income level.  Method: Using bivariate and multivariate approaches, we analyzed data from the […]

A new study  by Robert Motley Jr. a doctoral student and Sean Joe, the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development at the Brown School of Washington University in St. Louis, examines the use of force by police officers when factors such as race, gender and income are taken into account. The researchers examined 2011 data […]

Disproportionately lower educational achievement, coupled with higher grade retention, suspensions, expulsions, and lower school bonding make educational success among Black adolescents a major public health concern. Mental health is a key developmental factor related to educational outcomes among adolescents; however, traditional models of mental health focus on absence of dysfunction as a way to conceptualize […]

Mental Health and Educational Experiences Among Black Youth: A Latent Class Analysis Theda Rose, Michael A. Lindsey, Yunyu Xiao, Nadine M. Finigan-Carr, and Sean Joe (2017) Highlights Objective of the study was to examine the associations between mental health and educational experiences among Black adolescents. Higher school bonding is strongly associated with having better mental health. […]