Johnny Rice II

Coppin State University · Department of Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement

In this article, we explore the responses of 357 African American men between 15- and 24-years old living in four high crime high violence cities to better understand their perception of their environment and its impact on community violence. We focus on study participants’ perceptions of their cities, explanations of violence, and their perceived...

Spatial, Criminological, Social, and Legal Lenses of Epidemiology are used to highlight homicide death disparities unique to Blacks and the communities in which they live. Grounded in social structure theory and structural racism, the chapter provides a time-comparative spatial epidemiological analysis of homicide impacting Blacks in the United Sta...

i>This article contributes to our national understanding of gun violence by incorporating in our analyses the perspectives of the young men most likely to be victims and/or perpetrators of gun violence in urban areas. It also describes a more complex gun violence crisis by taking into account the environment in which many young Black men live and l...

For nearly as long as organizations working to end interpersonal violence have existed, the survivors who have been served by them have asked advocates to work with their abusive partners. The first shelters for victims of interpersonal violence opened in the United States in 1973. The first abuse intervention programs emerged in 1977. Understandin...

We live in a time when the social order is out-of-order. Crime is rampant, and so are citizens’ encounters with corrupt police and police criminality. Communal disorder and injustice have residents as hostages in their neighborhoods. In Black communities, the sentiment that police can be fair and just, yet alone, maintaining social order, preventin...

To adequately address intimate partner violence in the black community in the USA, it is imperative to discuss historical oppression and examine how intersecting realities influence intimate partner/gender-based violence and individual, community, and systemic responses. Institutionalized and internalized oppression through racism, sexism, classism...

Genocide is a dehumanizing crime that threatens the welfare of any civilized society. Yet, before the annihilation of any targeted human group, the collective outcomes of the genocidal process (e.g., systemic desecrations) and genocidal death effect (e.g., years of mass deaths and death disparities) have often gone undetected, underestimated, or ig...

Dying, death, and grief are significant events that impact individuals, families, and communities. In the United States, Blacks historically have higher morbidity and mortality rates than other racial-ethnic groups. While death is a normal and natural phase of the life-course process, high incidents of infant mortality, premature death, and prevent...

In the United States, generations of young Black males, ages 15 to 24 years, are prematurely dying from homicide and suicide. Between 1950 and 2010, the average death rate for young Black males due to homicide was 81.7 per 100,000 and suicide was 11.8 per 100,000. Ages 15 to 24 years are the intersecting developmental stages of adolescence and youn...

Summary: The authors review existing knowledge about strengths-based approaches for boys and men of color. The broader goal is to contribute to the development of a research, program, and policy agenda based on the current state of scientific knowledge regarding the causes and appropriate interventions for violence, and the most effective ways to p...

• Addressing the needs of domestic violence perpetrators is complex. Many would like to place the perpetrator in jail and forget about him. Yet survivors of domestic violence often maintain a connection with the perpetrator for many reasons: Perhaps they have children together, she may not want the relationship to end as much as she wants the abuse...

Johnny Rice II, public administrator, researcher and native of Baltimore provides a review of the groundbreaking documentary, "Bastards of the Party" developed by Athens Park Bloods gang member Cle 'Bone' Sloan. The essay explores Sloan's journey into gang life and his revisiting of social, political, cultural, and economic factors that he perceive...