Description
JusticeReFramed is a Russell Sage Foundation–funded study that uses digital storytelling to reduce stigma toward people impacted by the criminal legal system and to improve the institutional decisions that shape their access to education and opportunity.
About
JusticeReFramed uses an experimental design to examine how digital storytelling interventions shape the perceptions and judgments of educators and decision-makers toward justice-impacted individuals. By embedding narrative interventions within simulated evaluation contexts, the study tests how stigma operates—and whether it can be disrupted—at the moments where consequential decisions are made. The project advances theory on stigma and institutional decision-making while generating actionable evidence to inform educator training, postsecondary policy, and interventions that expand access and belonging for justice-impacted populations.
Project Team
Royel M. Johnson
Co-Principal Investigator
Associate Professor, USC
Terrill O. Taylor
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland
Marcus M. Martin
Research Assistant
Funder
This project is funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, focused on supporting innovative social science research that explores cutting-edge methods, questions, and policies for the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States.
