Doctoral student Kendall G. Johnson and assistant professor Judith C. Scott explain how systemic racism created a Black homicide epidemic and what we can do now to prevent more violence and help Black survivors. Originally published in The Hill: “‘A desperate need’: Black homicide epidemic demands prevention, justice” by Kendall G. Johnson and Judith C. Scott […]
From The Washington Post’s “On Parenting,” Assistant Professor Judith C. Scott explains why you should be talking to your children about the George Floyd protests. Excerpted from The Washington Post – Are you struggling with how to put this time into context with your kids, how to guide them through things they may have seen or heard in the […]
An intersectional analysis of America’s child welfare system is raising new questions about how race and religion have been ignored and used problematically throughout history and contemporary practice. The analysis, conducted by two BU School of Social Work researchers, focused on the experiences of Black and Christian foster care youths, who as a group face […]
March 11, 2019 Judith C. Scott, assistant professor at BU School of Social Work, has been honored with the 2019 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Society of Research in Child Development (SRCD). Scott — who received her PhD in 2017 from the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University — […]