Kayla M. Martensen

Kayla M. Martensen

College of Arts and Sciences

Instructor

Office:  LWH 4034
Phone:  (773) 442-4084
Email:  k-martensen@neiu.edu
Fax:  (773) 442-4085
Office Hours:  Spring 2019: By Appointment Only
Country:  United States

JUST 319 Latinos/as and the Criminal Justice System

Research Interests

Critical and feminist qualitative research methodologies; juvenile justice; Latinos/as in the criminal legal system; mass incarceration and prison nation; female gangs; girls and women in the criminal legal system; critical race theory; Chicana feminism

Education

β€’  M.A., Criminology, Law and Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 2012
β€’  B.A., Justice Studies, ΜμΜμ³ΤΉΟ, Chicago, Illinois, 2011

 

Selected Publications

Martensen, K. (2012). β€œThe price that US minority communities pay: Mass incarceration and the ideologies that fuel them.” Contemporary Justice Review, 15(2), 211-222.