Dr. Justin Turner
Assistant Professor
- About
- Selected Research
Biography
Justin Turner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Current Courses
SOC 467.001 Crime and Society: A Sociological Perspective
SOC 367.001 Criminology
SOC 367.002 Criminology
CJS 499.012 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
SOC 372.001 Special Topics in Sociology
SOC 495.002 Special Topics In Sociology
SOC 291.006 Undergraduate Teaching Experience In Sociology-Anthropology
Teaching Interests & Areas
Criminology
Research Interests & Areas
Critical Police Studies, Crime and Media, Security Studies, and Social Theory
Grants and Contracts
Skate Park Saturdays
Kaitlyn J Selman, Justin Turner, Chang Su-Russell, Bert Stabler.
Country Financial. June 1 2026 - March 15 2027
African American Studies Faculty Summer Research Initiative
Kaitlyn J Selman, Justin Turner.
African American Studies. 2024 - 2024
URG-NFIG
Justin Turner.
Illinois State University. June 1 2024 - August 1 2024
Book, Chapter
7. Police: The Weird and Eerie
Travis Linnemann, Justin Turner.
(2022), 180-201, 10.18574/nyu/9781479885725.003.0008, Ghost Criminology, New York University Press
Police School Services
Justin Turner, David May.
(2014), 3720-3727, 10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_369, Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Springer New York
Journal Article
“If you think this vilifies the police, then you think the police are villains”: Teaching <i>Reparations Won</i> as an antidote to copaganda
Kaitlyn J. Selman, Hannah Carson Baggett, Justin Turner.
Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 1-21, (2026), 10.1080/15505170.2026.2685010
The Citizen app and the habits of becoming police in the 21st century
Justin Turner.
The British Journal of Criminology, (2026), 10.1093/bjc/azag003
Citizen empowerment as a police force multiplier: Reproducing social domination through a 21st century personal safety app
Justin Turner, Travis Milburn.
Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, 21 (1), 27-45, (2025), 10.1177/17416590241231232
Book Review: Macrocriminology and Freedom
Justin Turner.
Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime, 5 (1), 75-77, (2024), 10.1177/2631309x231173412
Revisiting Akers’ Social Structure and Social Learning from a Problem-Solving Approach: Symbolic Interactionism, Humans as Acting, and Social Structure
Ruth Triplett, Justin Turner.
Deviant Behavior, 44 (2), 222-237, (2023), 10.1080/01639625.2022.2029687
Three-dimensional policeman: Security, sovereignty and volumetric police power
Travis Linnemann, Justin Turner.
Theoretical Criminology, 26 (1), 23-39, (2022), 10.1177/1362480620981103
Spike Lee (dir.) (2018) <i>BlacKkKlansman</i>
Justin Turner.
Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, 16 (1), 157-160, (2020), 10.1177/1741659019827627
“It all started with Eddie”: Thanatopolitics, police power, and the murder of Edward Byrne
Justin Turner.
Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, 15 (2), 239-258, (2019), 10.1177/1741659018763898
Seeing Like an Orientalist State: The Three Deaths of Neda Agha-Soltan
Justin Turner.
Critical Criminology, 23 (1), 85-103, (2015), 10.1007/s10612-014-9245-4
Presentations
“Raising the ‘House of Screams’: Teaching, Learning, and Living the Reparations Won Curriculum”.
Kaitlyn J Selman, Justin Turner, Hannah Carson Bagget.
American Society of Criminology, Washington, DC., November 12, 2025
Author Meets Critics: Policing Environmental Protest: Power and Resistance in Pandemic
Justin Turner.
American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, November 17, 2024
Razing the “House of Screams:” Teaching, Learning, and Living the Reparations Won Curriculum
Kaitlyn J Selman, Justin Turner.
African American Studies Fall Lecture series, Normal, IL, October 25, 2024
Habituating the Police
Justin Turner.
Society for the Study of Social Problems, Montreal, CA, August 13, 2024
Author Meets Critics: The Horror of Police
Justin Turner.
American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, November 16, 2023