CONTRIBUTOR:

Tyrell Spencer

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Master's Student

DEPARTMENT:

Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice

INSTITUTION:

Southern Illinois University

BIOGRAPHY:

Tyrell Spencer is currently a master’s student in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is interested in understanding the ways in which the components of the criminal justice system interlock to produce and sustain inequality among minority populations. Tyrell’s research interests include critical criminology, policing practices and police legitimacy, and criminal justice policy.