Research Agenda

  • Critical Criminology

    This work provides a critical analysis and interrogation of criminal legal system policies and practices that disproportionately impacts Black Americans.

  • Community gun violence & Policy

    This work centers on improving equitable outcomes for marginalized populations at the intersection of criminal justice and public health by understanding the experience of those most impacted by gun violence.

    This work challenges the harms associated with the criminalization of behavior and responses to trauma among Black populations and advocates for solutions to gun violence that repairs harm, delivers safety and provides health and well-being to those most impacted.

  • Racialized Violence

    This line of research examines the various methods in which society criminalizes Blackness with an eye towards exploring how Black Americans enact acts of resistance and resilience to marginalization.

Select Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Green, C., & Noel, M. E. (2025). “I’ma Work in Progress”: Rethinking Posttraumatic Growth Among Low-Income Black Men. American Journal of Men's Health, 19(6), 15579883251408383.

  • Green, Cherrell., & Meadows, J. (2024). “It’s About Survival”: Resilience Strategies Among Justice-Involved Black Men Exposed to Violence and Trauma. Race and Justice, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/21533687241296639

  • Green, Cherrell. (2024). “I Done Been Through a Lot of Stuff and I Done Seen a Lot of Things”: A Qualitative Analysis of Chronic Stress and Violence Among Justice-Involved Black Men. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 51(4), 620-638. https://doi.org/10.1177/00938548241227541.

  • Menefee, M. R., Green, C., Magnuson, S., & Williams, T. V. (2024). Cycles of Disadvantage: A Critical Examination of Trauma, Health, and the Community Reentry Experience. In Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Health, Crime, and Punishment (pp. 673-688). Routledge.

  • Noel, Melissa E. & Green,C. (2022). “‘I Literally Roll With The Punches:’ Black and Latina Women Coping Through Parental Incarceration.” Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology. https://doi.org/10.21428/88de04a1.a9c93b41

  • Green, Cherrell. (2022). Race, femininity, and school suspension. Youth & Society, 54(4), 685–706. https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118X211001098

  • Alang, S., Rogers, T. B., Williamson, L. D., Green, C., & Bell, A. J. (2021). Police brutality and unmet need for mental health care. Health Services Research, 56(6), 1104–1113. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.13736

  • Green, Cherrell. (2019). Desistance and disabled masculine identity: Exploring the role of serious violent victimization in the desistance process. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 5(3), 287–309. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-019-00106-7

Select Policy-related Publications

  • Green, C., Magnuson, S., & Menefee, M. (2025). Changing the Initial Appearance Process: Implementation & Impact of Defense Attorney-Led Changes in Cook County, IL. Report prepared for Cook County as part of Safety+Justice Challenge, MacArthur Foundation. 

  • Green, C. (2024). Code Blue: How Police and Health Care Providers Disrupt Healing for Violently Injured Black Men. https://digital.sandiego.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1100&context=ipj-research Violence, Inequality and Power Lab, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice University of San Diego.

  • Kim, Jaeok, Cherrell Green, Alex Boldin, Quinn Hood, & Shirin Purkayastha (2022). How Bail Reform and COVID-19 Reshaped Court Practices in Five New York Counties. Vera Institute of Justice.

  •  Benjamin, Heller, Cherrell Green, Shirin Purkayastha, Alex Boldin, and Brian King. (2021). Towards a Fair Parole Process: Examining Parole Denials in New York State. Vera Institute of Justice.