Hillary Potter, Ph.D.

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My research centers on racial, ethnic, gendered, and classed issues as related to crime causation, the commission of crime, and the criminal justice system. More specifically, my main research projects have focused on
racialized aspects of intimate partner abuse
.

Written Work:

In Progress. Hillary Potter and Devon Thacker. "'We Told You That's How They Are': Responses to White Women in Abusive Intimate Relationships with Men of Color." Under review at peer-reviewed journal.

2010. Hillary Potter. "'I Don't Think a Cop Has Ever Asked Me if I Was OK': Battered Women's Experiences with Police Intervention." Pp. 219-242 in Famle Victims of Crime: Reality Reconsidered, edited by Venessa Garcia and Janice E. Clifford. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

2008. Hillary Potter. Battle Cries: Black Women and Intimate Partner Abuse.New York, NY: New York University Press.

2007. Hillary Potter. "The Need for a Multi-Faceted Response to Intimate Partner Abuse Perpetrated by African Americans." Criminology and Public Policy 6(2):367-376.

2007. Hillary Potter. "Battered Black Women’s Use of Religion and Spirituality for Assistance in Leaving Abusive Relationships." Violence Against Women 13(3):262-284.

2006. Joanne Belknap and Hillary Potter. "Intimate Partner Abuse." Pp. 168-184 in Rethinking Gender, Crime, and Justice: Feminist Readings, edited by Claire M. Renzetti, Lynne Goodstein, and Susan L. Miller. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Company.

2006. Hillary Potter. An Argument for Black Feminist Criminology: Understanding African American Women’s Experiences with Intimate Partner Abuse Using an Integrated Approach. Feminist Criminology, 1(2):106-124.

REPRINTED 2008. Pp. 386-391in Crime: Readings, Third Edition, edited by Robert D. Crutchfield, Charis E. Kubrin, George S. Bridges, and Joseph G. Weis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

AWARD (2008). Outstanding Journal Article for Volume 1 of Feminist Criminology.

2005. Joanne Belknap and Hillary Potter. "The Trials of Measuring the 'Success' of Domestic Violence Policies." Criminology and Public Policy 4(3):559-566.

Dissertation:
2004. Intimate Partner Violence against African American Women: The Effects of Social Structure and Black Culture on Patterns of Abuse. Committee: Joanne Belknap (Chair), Patti Adler, Janet Jacobs, Polly McLean, Michael Radelet.

 

 

Alcatraz

CU-Boulder Department of Sociology
Undergraduate Studies in Sociology
Graduate Program in Criminology and Deviance
Graduate Program in Qualitative/Interpretive Sociology
Graduate Program in Sociology of Gender
University of Colorado at Boulder