Serita Whiting is a doctoral candidate at Prairie View A&M University. Her research interests include assessing criminological theories, mass incarceration, convict criminology, and juvenile delinquency. Her research has appeared in the Journal of Race and Justice, Feminist Criminology, and Humanity & Society. Serita Whiting's scholarly agenda: To bring forth a better understanding to issues that [...]
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - As news came out about the criminal charges and sentencing for the suspects in the Hazana Anderson case, many wondered why there were no murder charges in connection with the girl's death. One-year-old Hazana Anderson was reported missing from a College Station park on October 28, 2018 by her mother TiAundra [...]
Hometown - The Southside of Chicago, Illinois. Degree(s)? Bachelor of Science in Juvenile Justice and Minor in Agriculture. What organization(s) were you a part of at PVAMU? Criminal Justice Club-President, Student Government Association (SGA), Student Partnership & Outreach Team (SPOT), and Panther Advisory Leaders (PALS).
A Prairie View A&M University assistant professor has been conducting research focusing on adjustment after natural disasters. One study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders suggests depressive symptoms may lead to higher future symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). "We knew already before conducting this study that after a natural disaster, people may experience [...]
Robbie Tolan’s criminal justice degree from Prairie View A&M University is over ten years in the making, but what happened during a significant portion of that time was not a part of Tolan’s overall plan. "I played baseball here at Prairie View and helped my team to win PV’s first-ever SWAC [Southwestern Athletic Conference] Championship [...]
Faculty, staff, and students at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) now have free access to a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences in the Inter-Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) data holdings.
Dr. Nabil Ouassini in the Justice Studies Department of the College of Juvenile Justice has received a highly competitive CAORC (Council of American Overseas Research Centers) Award. The award will allow him to participate in an intensive capacity building and curriculum development program in India from December to January. Based in New Delhi, he will [...]
In August 2018, Terrence Allen, Ph.D., left The University of Texas at Austin and joined Prairie View A&M University’s College of Juvenile Justice as a research scientist in the Texas Juvenile Crime Prevention Center (TJCPC). He arrived from the capital city intending to work with a low-income community to improve its quality of life.
The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences exists to foster applied research toward policy development by bringing academics and juvenile justice practitioners together. Its nationally elected leadership has long included persons from the nation’s only doctoral program in Juvenile Justice that exists at Prairie View A&M University. The latest [...]
NO JUSTICE is the harrowing story of Robbie Tolan, who early on one New Year's Eve morning, found himself being rushed to the hospital. A white police officer had shot him in the chest after mistakenly accusing him of stealing his own car...while in his own driveway. In a journey that took nearly a decade, [...]
