Research interests: Pre K-12 Education; Criminal Justice; Juvenile Justice; School Discipline; Anti-Adultism; Socioemotional Learning; Play Therapy
Hill, A. B., & Harper, T. (2025). “They Slow Me Down”: Peer Relationships, School Fights, and the Criminalization of Black Adolescent Development Through School Discipline Policies. Youth & Society, 57(4), 539-570.
Hill, A. B., Washington, D. M., Kern, L., Harper, T. (2023). The Role of Social
Workers in Transforming the American Educational System as a Means to Carceral Abolition. In Abrams, L. S., Crewe, S. E., Dettlaff, A. J., & Williams, J. H. Social Work, White Supremacy, and Racial Justice: Reckoning with Our History, Interrogating Our Present, Reimagining Our Future, (pp. 486-502).
Washington, D. M., Harper, T., Hill, A. B., & Kern, L. J. (2021). Achieving juvenile justice through abolition: A critical review of social work’s role in shaping the juvenile legal system and steps toward achieving an antiracist future. Social Sciences, 10(6), 211.
Course
- 32700 Human Behavior in the Social Environment