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Jason M. Williams is a graduate of New Jersey City University (NJCU), Jersey City, N.J. with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Criminal Justice. He subsequently earned his Doctorate in Administration of Justice from Texas Southern University (TSU), Houston, T.X. Aside from doing research for the academic audience, he is also involved in many public research and information forums, such as the Hampton Institution where he serves as chair/editor of the criminal justice department. Prior to joining Montclair State University, Dr. Williams has taught a variety of Criminal Justice courses at NJCU, TSU, and John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Fairleigh Dickinson University. His areas of expertise are race, ethnicity and crime, criminological/criminal justice theory, critical criminology, historical criminology, social control, criminal justice policy, social justice and the sociology of knowledge. He is also on the editorial board of a half dozen scholarly journals.
In the fall of 2014 he was elected to serve as the secretary and treasurer for the Division on People of Color and Crime (DPCC), a subdivision within the American Society of Criminology. Dr. Williams is currently engaged in action orientated on-the-ground research in Ferguson, MO. His primary purpose in this research project is to analyze the perceptions on the legitimacy of justice and justice agents among African-American community members in the aftermath of the Ferguson decision. Other projects in queue include, the school-to-prison pipeline, Black male experiences in the criminal justice system, and Black revolutionary criminology. His first book, “A Critical Analysis of Race and the Administration of Justice” is set to be published by Cognella Academic Press effective Dec 2014. In June of 2015, Dr. Williams was granted a contract from Routledge to write and publish "Policing and Race: A Criminological Conception of #BlackLivesMatter", a book to be included in the New Directions in Critical Criminology Series. |
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