Allyn Walker
They/Them
I am queer and I am a scholar of criminal justice and social work.//
I started my career as a social worker, counseling victims of crime. Upon facilitating a focus group of inmates who had been victims of sexual assault, my interests shifted from working with people who had experienced harm at the hands of an individual, to wanting to help prevent harms created by systems. I went back to school and got my Ph.D. in criminal justice, and now I study institutional harm, including that which is created by the criminal processing system and by mental health care systems.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520306363/a-long-dark-shadow