Career
Upon earning her PhD,Jones accepted an assistant professor position in the Department of Sociology at the University of California,Santa Barbara for the 2004–05 academic year. [3] In this role,she earned a William T. Grant Award for Early Career Scholars to fund her research project titled Pathways to Freedom:How Young People Create a Life After Incarceration. [4] A few years later,Jones published her first book titled Between Good and Ghetto:African American Girls and Inner City Violence, which won the New Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology. [5] The book was an ethnographic study of violence within the inner-city of Philadelphia amongst adolescent girls. She focused on how the girls oscillate between protecting themselves against daily threats of physical violence and conforming to White middle-class gender norms. [6] [7]
The following year,Jones published her second book,which was edited by criminologist Meda Chesney-Lind,titled Fighting for Girls:New Perspectives on Gender and Violence. Similar to her first book,Jones focused on adolescent girls and the moral panic caused by media representations surrounding them as becoming increasingly violent. [8] Her research claimed that a spike in arrest numbers for adolescent girls was the cause of this panic,not an actual increase in violence. She placed the blame of the increase on zero-tolerance policies in schools and mandatory arrest policies. [9] As a result of her research,Jones was appointed Chair of the American Sociological Association's Race,Gender and Class Section from 2012 until 2013. [10] During this time,she also co-led a research project with Geoff Raymond called Identifying Good Strangers:A Micro-Interactional Approach, funded by a $592,699 three-year grant. [11]
Jones left the University of California,Santa Barbara in 2013 to join the department of African American Studies at the University of California,Berkeley. [10] Following the Killing of Philando Castile,Jones collaborated with Raymond on a three-year project to help police develop better communication methods. [12] She also established the Justice Interaction Lab during the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement with funding from the William T. Grant Foundation. [13] Her third book,The Chosen Ones:Black Men and the Politics of Redemption, reflected on her recent research and focused on the victimization of young Black men by urban gun violence. [14] It went on to receive on the Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title for 2018 [15] and the Michael J. Hindelang Award from the American Society of Criminology. [16] In 2020,Jones received the W.E.B. DuBois Award from the Western Society of Criminology for her work in raising awareness for racial and ethical issues in criminology and criminal justice. [17]
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