Firing squads in 2025? 🤦🏾‍♀️

Latest op-ed published in NC Newsline. The death penalty is not a crime deterrent nor the answer for crime prevention.

ncnewsline.com/2025/10/08/n...

The UNC Charlotte Violence Prevention Center is partnering with The South Piedmont Area Health Education Center (AHEC) to offer multidisciplinary health professions CEUs!
 
Find out more at violenceprevention.charlotte.edu/education-an.... Our next one features our very own Dr. Rob Cramer!

“A majority of people who are found incompetent to stand trial are restored to competency,” @drapryla.bsky.social added. “They eventually go back to trial, back to their court case and proceedings continue.” 

www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2025/10/02/c...

We’re excited to invite you to an upcoming free virtual session:

Dissemination Methods that Work: Supporting Policymakers’ Value and Use of Research

Register here: bit.ly/4gEHOrB

Starting November 1st, New Mexico will become the first state to offer free universal childcare to all its residents.

It's expected to save families over $12,000 per child annually.

This is a huge step forward — and a reminder that we have the power to fix the system.

Joseph McNeil, one of the Greensboro Four, passed away on Sept. 4 at the age of 83.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

“Basically, it’s a systemic movement of resources away from preventing tragedy to requiring tragedy,” Clark said. “It’s the same population. It’s the same people. It’s just where are we going to serve them: Before they’ve been criminalized or after they’ve been criminalized?”

If you have already or will successfully defend a legal psychology dissertation in 2025, apply for the @ap-ls.org
Dissertation Award by December 31! Winners will be invited to present their research at the AP-LS Annual Conference in March 2026!

More info here: ap-ls.org/awards/awards/dissertation

NYTimes has a sad but ultimately unsurprising report on some Black and brown parents giving their children a new version of "The Talk" - warning them how to react if police enacting Trump's crackdowns on crime and undocumented people come their way. Sigh. loom.ly/Hw_jltc

COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.

My latest Judicial Notebook piece in the APA Monitor on Psychology on the Mahmoud v. Taylor SCOTUS decision.

www.apa.org/monitor/2025...

Twenty years ago today, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans. At approximately 5:00 AM, the levees broke, flooding 80% of our city. As a result, an estimated 1400 people lost their lives, and hundreds of thousands lost their homes. Over half of the victims were Black.

Pleased to share my inaugural editorial for Archives of Sexual Behavior, sharing my vision for the journal as the incoming Editor-in-Chief

(open access)

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

When even words like “diverse” can’t be used…

Scientists are removing words like “diverse” and “disparities” from hundreds of federal grant renewals to avoid getting flagged by the Trump administration

www.wsj.com/health/scien...

The University of Denver ended race-specific scholarships and DEI training to comply with DOJ directives.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser's brief argues that conversion therapy — a medically discredited practice in which medical professionals try to change a patient’s sexual orientation or gender identity — is substandard medical care for minors that can be prohibited by states.

Dr. Evan Auguste compiled a book I wish I had in school. Thoughts and ideas I had but weren’t acknowledged, recognized, or affirmed. And I’m grateful to be a small part of it. 🖤 Check it out, buy it, or adopt it for your classroom.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch

You've GOT to check out this Special Collection on anti-Black racism. 👇

Pulls from across APS journals and the last few years.

Could be handy resource for research and teaching.

We honestly cannot count the number of people who asked for this — Sam Sanders and I get together to talk about Cowboy Carter and all the things.

youtu.be/NLiQaIhenqE?...

This. The EO—though it doesn't carry the force of the law—calls for even more efforts to criminalize and institutionalize unhoused people, folks with unmet mental health needs, drug users and those deemed to be "vagrants." It aims to render people as disposable, and control, lock up + disappear them

Here's a good piece from VRC colleague @cjsullivan.bsky.social on the benefits of community violence intervention. scholars.org/contribution...

New paper out today in Social Science & Medicine:

Higher homicide rates → higher suicide rates the next year, especially with firearms.

50 years of U.S. county data + quasi experimental design.
Biggest impacts in rural & White communities.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NIH cuts spotlight a hidden crisis facing patients with experimental brain implants https://trib.al/VxWd49T

I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.