INTIMATE PARTNER ABUSE
Battered African American Women
Interracial Domestic Abuse
General Intimate Partner Abuse

Battered African American Women
In-depth interviews with Black women who had been physically and mentally abused by their intimate male partners.

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

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.

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.

Interracial Domestic Abuse
This research involves conducting in-depth interviews with women abused by intimate partners of a different race or ethnicity. (This research was previously funded by a post-doctoral non-residential fellowship with the National Consortium on Violence Research and an IMPART Faculty Fellowship Award.) Please see the IDA Project webpage for further details.

Written Work:
In Progress. Hillary Potter and Devon Thacker. Intimate Partner Abuse among Interracial Couples (working title). Preparing for submission to peer review journal.

In Progress. Lisa Engweiler and Hillary Potter. Interracial Intimate Partner Homicide (working title). Preparing for submission to peer review journal.

Intimate Partner Abuse
General reviews, policy analysis, and theorizing of intimate partner abuse.

Written Work:
In Progress. Hillary Potter. Review of Violence in theCity of Women: Police and Batterers in Bahia, Brazil by Sarah J. Hautzinger. Gender and Society.

In Progress. Hillary Potter. Domestic Violence, African Americans. In Helen Taylor Greene and Shaun L. Gabbidon (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Race and Crime. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

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.

2006. Joanne Belknap and Hillary Potter. Intimate Partner Abuse. In Claire M. Renzetti, Lynne Goodstein, and Susan L. Miller (Eds.), Rethinking Gender, Crime, and Justice: Feminist Readings, pp. 168-184. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Company.

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

RACE, CRIME, AND HURRICANE KATRINA

In-depth interviews and observation two weeks after Hurricane Katrina in Baton Rouge, LA. (This research was funded by a Quick Response Grant from the Natural Hazards Center, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, with funds contributed by the National Science Foundation.)

Written Work:
In Progress. Hillary Potter. Hurricane Katrina. In Helen Taylor Greene and Shaun L. Gabbidon (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Race and Crime. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

2007. Hillary Potter (Ed.). Racing the Storm: Racial Implications and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers).

2007. Hillary Potter. Reframing Crime in a Disaster: Perceptions, Reality, and Criminalization of Survival Tactics among African Americans in the Aftermath of Katrina. In Hillary Potter (Ed.), Racing the Storm: Racial Implications and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina, pp. 51-65. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

CORRECTIONS AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Race, Gender, and Corrections
Capital Punishment in Colorado
Alternatives to Incarceration

Race, Gender, and Corrections
General overviews of race, gender, correctional institutions, and capital punishment.

Written Work:
In Progress . Hillary Potter and Shelby McKenzie. Equal Justice for All?: Gender, Race, and Sexuality Biases Concerning Female Homicide Defendants and the Death Penalty in the United States. Preparing for submission to a peer review journal.

Forthcoming. Hillary Potter. Wanda Jean Allen. In Vickie Jensen and Karren Baird-Olson (Eds.), Women and Crime: An Encyclopedia of Issues and Cases . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Forthcoming. Hillary Potter. Frances Newton. In Vickie Jensen and Karren Baird-Olson (Eds.), Women and Crime: An Encyclopedia of Issues and Cases . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

2007. Hillary Potter. Review of Locked Out: Felony Disenfranchisement and Democracy by Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen. Social Forces, 85(3):1443-1444.

2004 Hillary Potter. African American Prisoners. In Mary Bosworth (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Prisons and Cor rectional Facilities , pp. 18-21. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

2004 Hillary Potter. Co -Correctional Facilities. In Mary Bosworth (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities, pp. 139-141. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

2004 Hillary Potter. Lesbian Prisoners. In Mary Bosworth (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities, pp. 542-544. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Capital Punishment in Colorado
Content and quantitative analysis of race, gender, and county variations in capital punishment prosecution in Colorado from 1980 to 1999. (In collaboration with Stehphanie Hindson and Michael Radelet.)

Written Work:
2006. Stephanie Hindson, Hillary Potter, and Michael Radelet. Race, Gender, Region and Death Sentencing in Colorado, 1980-1999. University of Colorado Law Review, 77(3):549-599.

Alternatives to Incarceration

Written Work:
2004. Hillary Potter. Intermediate Sanctions. In Mary Bosworth (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities, pp. 479-482. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

2004. Hillary Potter. Effective Alternatives to Jail Confinement: A Report and Recommendation to the Public Safety Committee of the Denver City Council. Public Safety Committee, Denver City Council, Denver, CO.

BLACK FEMINIST CRIMINOLOGY

Theoretical conceptualization stemming from feminist criminology, Black feminist theory, and critical race feminist theory.

Written Work:
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 in Robert D. Crutchfield, Charis E. Kubrin, George S. Bridges, and Joseph G. Weis (Eds.), Crime: Readings, Third Edition, pp. 386-391. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CRIMINOLOGY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Research and commentary on college-level pedagogy in the field of criminology and criminal justice.

Written Work:
In Progress. Hillary Potter and Stacy Mallicoat. “Bill Kurtis Rocks!” Factors Influencing Undergraduates to Major in Criminal Justice. Preparing for submission to Journal of Criminal Justice Education.

In Progress. Amanda Burgess-Proctor and Hillary Potter. Curricular Transformation in Criminology: Teaching Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender.

2007. Joanne Belknap and Hillary Potter. Introduction: From Passion to Practice. In Susan L. Miller (Ed.), Criminal Justice Research and Practice: Diverse Voices from the Field, pp. 3-20. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England.

2004. Hillary Potter. The Importance of Incorporating Issues of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Criminology Courses. Newsletter of the Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association, Spring 2004, pp. 6-8. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.

2003. Hillary Potter. Teaching Tips and Techniques for Graduates New to Teaching Crime and Deviance Courses. Newsletter of the Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association, Fall 2003, pp. 9-12. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.

2002. Hillary Potter. The Female Offender. In Amy Blackstone and Betsy Lucal (Eds.), Sociology of Gender: Syllabi and O ther Instructional Materials (Fifth Edition), pp. 238-245. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.