Student

Luyi Jian is an incoming fourth year doctoral student in the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley. Her research interests are in the juvenile and criminal legal systems and prevention and intervention of youth’s antisocial behavior. Her dissertation is situated in the juvenile justice system and focuses on how positive youth development can promote desistance from antisocial behavior. She explores the extent to which justice-involved youth develop a prosocial identity or sense of self, and tests the conditions under which prosocial identity can flourish and protect young...

Dhurata Osmani is a third year Sociology PhD student whose research interests lie within political sociology, the sociology of emotions, and conflict. Dhurata has previously conducted research on the role of emotions in Kosovo, focusing on how gendered constructions of nationalism and liberal feminism shaped the post-conflict climate. Currently, Dhurata is interested in interrogating how the American post-war state sought to control emotions to attain its hegemonic status.

Peyton Provenzano is a second-year JD student and fourth-year PhD student in the Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program at Berkeley Law. Her legal focus is on 4th Amendment Jurisprudence, with an emphasis on the police use of force. Peyton's work is situated at the disciplinary intersections of Law & Society, Critical Criminology, and Critical Race Theory. Peyton's current research and policy advocacy is centered on community-based alternatives to the police for psychiatric emergencies, intimate-partner violence, and community-level violence.

Rebekah Jones is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley's Department of Political Science. Her current research agenda investigates the development and consequences of local crime policy in the U.S. Her dissertation project examines how cities embedded in the federated structure of the American political economy prioritize and devise their crime policy agendas to respond to our nation's high levels of lethal violence. More broadly, she is interested in how the economic incentives of political elites interact with local political institutions...