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Ken Cruz, J.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Phone Number
Campus Mailbox
358425

About

Degrees

Ph.D.
Criminology/Law and Society
University of California, Irvine
2016
M.S.
Applied Criminology (With distinction)
Northern Arizona University
2009
J.D.
Law
University of Connecticut
2002
B.A.
Psychology
Southern Connecticut State University
1997
Selected Publications

Cruz, K. A. (2023). Micro-Erasures: How an "Evidence-Based" Violence Intervention with Indigenous Youth Advances Cultural Genocide. American Indian Quarterly (University of Nebraska Press), 47(1), 1-25. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/901585

Cruz, K. A. (2022). Keeping Kids for Profit: A Cautionary Tale of Public Service Corruption and “Slumcare” within the Expanding Juvenile Crime Control Industry. Social Justice (San Francisco, Calif.), 48(1), 81–103, 124. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/keeping-kids-profit-cautionary-tale-public/docview/2806551381/se-2

Cruz, K. A. (2019). Systemic Endangerment: A Tale of Neoliberal “Slumcare.” Critical Criminology (Richmond, B.C.), 27(4), 627–642. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-019-09477-1