I identify as an intercultural criminologist which is not a formal term (yet) but more of a configuration of my skillsets. As a graduate of intercultural communication, I have learned and continue to explore how we as individuals with all of our unique traits and abilities, find and use language to communicate across all of those lines of difference.
In my work, I am able to leverage the nuances of understanding people to be individuals who come into spaces with all of their experiences in tow. When attempting to understand causation in research it is paramount to address context, history and individuality. Oftentimes in policing, folks are trying to understand the failures of a system but result to analyzing the aggregated behaviors of individuals.
I believe the work begins and ends with the people. For the people make up the system and should have the power to alter its trajectory. As an intercultural criminologist I use a social ecological approach to understand the environment in combination with other data points to propose transformative solutions.