Marking 25 Years of Convict Criminology by Building a New Table: Transformative Social Justice, Inclusion and Activism as Part of a Larger Social Movement

Grant E. Tietjen, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Criminal Justice Program at the School of Social Work and Criminal Justice at the University of Washington – Tacoma (UWT). He earned his PhD from the Department of Sociology at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL) in 2013. Dr. Tietjen has written, researched, and lectured on convict criminology, mass incarceration, class inequality, criminological theory, and pathways to correctional/postcorrectional education. He has published multiple peer reviewed papers in journals and edited volumes, including most recently in Humanity and Society, Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Confl ict & World Order, and Criminal Justice Studies. He is the author of Justice Lessons: The Rise of the System Aff ect Academic Movement, with the University of California Press, slated for publication in 2024. Dr. Tietjen works closely with multiple System Aff ected Academic organizations, including Huskies Post Prison Pathways (HP3) at UWT and the Division Convict Criminology (DCC) in the American Society of Criminology (ASC). HP3 is a support program for formerly-incarcerated students. As part of UWT HP3, he is a member of the Steering Committee for this growing initiative. He has also been involved with the CC discipline since 2005, mentoring new CC members, and serving as the group’s Co-Chair from 2017-2019. During this time, Dr. Tietjen has worked with many other dedicated CC members to strengthen the CC organization. In 2020, he was appointed as the inaugural Chair of the newly formed American Society of Criminology Division of Convict Criminology, and currently serves as DCC Vice-Chair. Dr. Tietjen can be reached for questions at grantt5@uw.edu.

Alison Cox, PhD is an Assistant Professor at East Carolina University in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology. Her research interests include prison visitation, the impact of incarceration on families, critical criminology (e.g. convict, feminist, queer, and rural), and qualitative methods. Her scholarship has been published in Criminal Justice Studies and Critical Criminology. She is also a contributing author to Convict Criminology for the Future, edited by Dr. Jeff rey Ian Ross (University of Baltimore) and Dr. Francesca Vianello (University of Padua).

Dr. J. Renee Trombley is an Assistant Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology at Metropolitan State University – Denver, where she also serves as a Faculty Fellow and is currently developing the Justice Impacted Scholars Alliance. Dr. Trombley is dedicated to building opportunities in higher education for justice impacted folks, both in the community and in prisons and jails. Her research interests include restorative justice, peacemaking criminology, convict criminology, violence and victimization among youth, and juvenile justice and delinquency, as well as the use of qualitative methods in academic research. Dr. Trombley has spent time writing, publishing, and presenting on issues related to trauma among youth, juvenile justice and schools, restorative justice and reentry, restorative justice in higher education, and convict criminology and identity.