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Shaun Ossei-Owusu is pursuing his Ph.D. in African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley studying urban marginality. He completed an MLA in Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In an attempt to bring together traditional criminology and critical race theory, Mr. Ossei-Owusu asks: how do race, class and gender influence individual experiences and perceptions of crime as well as broader cultural assumptions about criminality and criminal justice institutions? His dissertation probes individuals' experiences of and orientations toward crime at the micro-level, understanding the relationship between crime and discrimination, as well as the consequences of maldistributed penalties, social burdens, and legal resources for US society. He has published extensively on post-racism, the normalization of violence against women in hip hop, and discretion in criminal law and is the recipient of the Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies Fellowship and a National Science Foundation grant. Mr. Ossei-Owusu’s LSS Fellowship mentors are John Hagan and Austin Sarat. |
