health

1. health education (criminal in)justice

2. we are polling for justice

3. participatory action research research with, not on

4. In the beginning . . .research camps

5. How do we want to ask about who’s filling out the survey?

6. What do we want to know about experiences with the criminal justice system?

7. What about education? And health?

9. Our history together As we wrote the survey, we learned about historical, contextual and structural causes of injustice

10. Sculptures of injustice …

11. disparities . . .

13. repping p4j Community Board 11 Speak-outs and rallys Consortium Schools Public Health workers Graduate Students District Judges

14. data-nerds

15. Preliminary analysis • Methods: • Frequencies • Contingency Tables • Thematic content analysis of open-ended questions

16. learning about cross-tabulations . . . Have you ever been hit, slapped, or physically hurt on purpose? How many girls were hit, slapped, or physically hurt on purpose? How many boys were hit, slapped, or physically hurt on purpose?

17. So far we have 900 surveys • Expecting 300 more • First wave data that we are sharing today: N = 400

18. gender of our sample

19. race/ethnicity of our sample

20. We’re hearing • Youth care about education: • 97% care about getting good grades in school • 92% believe that their teachers have high expectations of them • 83% plan on getting a BA, MA, or PhD • Youth get it, and care about the community: • 81% believe our economic system is unfair, and 74% believe society needs to be radically restructured • 86% agree that young people can make a difference in society • 90% believe that youth have important roles to play in making the world a better place and • 74% said they like being involved with other young people to create change.

21. Within the last 30 days of taking the survey: • 22%  were stopped by the police for questioning • 15%  were stopped by the police on their way to or from school • 20%  were stopped by police because of the clothes they were wearing

22. Tell us about a time when you witnessed or experienced an injustice or unfairness that upset you: I heard a group of teens who were on there way to their friends funeral but because they all were wearing the same R.I.P. shirt they were stopped by the police and beaten (female, multiple ethnicities) I’ve seen kids of color stopped from leaving the school building by security guards to check their id’s (when they were done for the day and were permitted to leave the school), wheras I, as a white student, was questioned only once when leaving the building and have walked out of the building (past security guards) on several occasions when I should have been in class. (female, white)

23. Tell us about a time when you witnessed or experienced an injustice or unfairness that upset you:

24. From all this

25. youth

26. Stops youth for unidentified reasons Police getting rough Ask where you are going Police don’t trust you Mistaken identity Unreasonable fines Arguments and harassments Rude comment and insults Cussing in your own home Using cuffs at unnecessary moments Stopping you without any reason youth Don’t want you outside at a certain time Get pat down All in your business Random searches Y o u t h Don’t trust you’re a student when using a student metrocard Sexual harassment Take down to police station Racial profiling Violating people’s rights Being disrespected out in public by cops Using unnecessary force Follow you when you are in a big group You can’t sit in front of your own building Sexual comments towards girls Getting stopped Very Rude! Color discrimination Attitudes toward youth Stereotypes- youth steal, loud, cause problems The neighborhoods Racism Age groups More powerful/ power abuse Government (jail, law) More money for cops Sexism

27. Stops youth for unidentified reasons Mistaken identity Ask where you are going Police don’t trust you Police getting rough Unreasonable fines Using cuffs at unnecessary moments Rude comment and insults adults Cussing in your own home Arguments and harassments Stopping you without any reason Don’t want you outside at a certain time Random searches Get pat down Don’t trust you’re a student when using a student metrocard Violating people’s rights Take down to police station All in your business Racial profiling Sexual comments towards girls Being disrespected out in public by cops You can’t sit in front of your own building Using unnecessary force Follow you when you are in a big group Getting stopped Color discrimination Very Rude! Sexual harassment Technologies of surveillance set up conditions for how and who (or what) “The state needs criminals to eke out its own income by their forced labor” Du Bois Patriarchy mistrust exposure stress Fear Dwindling economy/labor Representations of dangerous youth Shrinking public space Genuine confusion Re: A better alternative White hegemony A general fear/lack of trust of young people Racism (including fear) Individualism, privatization, late capitalism, vulnerability, structural racism, moral exclusion

28. The Roots Attitudes toward youth Stereotypes- youth steal, loud, cause problems youth The neighborhoods Racism Age groups More powerful/ power abuse Government (jail, law) Sexism More money for cops adults Technologies of surveillance set up conditions for how and who (or what) “The state needs criminals to eke out its own income by their forced labor” Du Bois Patriarchy mistrust exposure stress Fear Dwindling economy/labor Representations of dangerous youth Genuine confusion Re: A better alternative Shrinking public space White hegemony A general fear/lack of trust of young people Racism (including fear) Individualism, privatization, late capitalism, vulnerability, structural racism, moral exclusion

30. Shout out to • Our missing core team members: Dominique Ramsey, Erik McKenzie, and Alisha Vierira • The rest of our Graduate Center research team: Michelle Fine, Nick Freudenberg, Jessica Ruglis, Brett Stoudt, Valerie Francisco • To Jessica Lake, intern extraordinairre • To the Urban Youth Collaborative, Make the Road NY, Surdna Foundation, Hazen Foundation, Glass Foundation, Overbrook Foundation, Schott Foundation for making our project possible • Free Minds Free People!! And the ADCO Foundation for making this trip possible!