Dr. Alex Davis
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Dr. Alex Davis
@davis_alexp
👩💻: Gender, violence, & urban Ntvs • #FirstGen @Chaminade_Univ / @UICCLJ alum • Asst Prof of Justice Studies @EWUEagles • They/she w/#ADHD • Thoughts my own

(1/2) We need more attention to selection bias in qualitative research. A new study in a top sociology journal examines "how young people experience policing," but it draws only on interviews of youth in an organization devoted to abolishing the police, one that bombards...


@BigIndianGyasi Especially in comparison to his running mate. I get that the bar is in hell for debate performance, but Vance isn't dumb--he knows that putting forth a slick offense looks better than the defensive performance from Walz, even if it's all lies.

I keep laughing about people being like "that was so cordial" because for two Midwestern white men that was a slap fight


@BigIndianGyasi I don't know that I'd go so far as to say "destroy", but I agree that, on a surface level at least, Vance presented his message better. Now, whether that message is actually truthful or actually his message is another story...







New pub alert! 🚨 In '21, Lorraine Ali (LA Times) wrote that 2 documentaries--Black and Missing & Murdered and Missing in Montana--broke the true crime mold. We examined them for how the missingness of Black & Indigenous women/girls were portrayed. We agreed w/ Ali's take. /1







