Dr. Brown uses mixed-methods designs to study policing and issues of homelessness.
Research Interests
- Focuses on issues of policing and homelessness.
- Specializes in mixed methodology and primary data collection.
- Centers co-creation between researchers, practitioners, and participants to support outcomes that are made with community and practictioner goals and needs in mind.
Biography
Katharine L. Brown received her Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Arizona State University (ASU). Katharine’s research employs mixed methodology (e.g., survey data collection, focus groups, and ethnography) to better understand issues of policing and homelessness. She works with several police departments and community agencies to identify gaps in responses to unhoused populations and works with those agencies to improve these resonses by adopting evidence-based practice. Her work has been published in The Journal of Experimental Criminology, Behavioral Sciences & the Law, and Policing: An International Journal.
Katharine was honored with the National Science Foundation’s Law and Science Dissertation Grant to complete her doctoral dissertation and was awarded the Distinguished Graduate Student award from the Women’s Faculty Association at ASU nearing the completion of her studies. She adopts an anti-racist and anti-opressive lens that acknowledges the harms done to vulnerable communities in the past and present, working to inform new policies that center dismantling white-supremacy culture in higher education and increasing equitable experiences and outcomes for students and colleagues.
Courses Taught
- CJ 671 Communication for Criminal Justice Leaders
- CJ 600 Criminal Justice Administration
Education
B.A. Sociology, University of California-San Diego (2017)
M.S. Criminology, Arizona State University (2019)
Ph.D. Criminology, Arizona State University (2023)