Areas of Research & Methodology

Black Incarcerated Women

Children of Incarcerated Parents

Social Movements

Participatory ACtion Research

Publications

"We Have Unique Experiences": Familial Socialization of Children of Incarcerated Parents

Social Revolution: Black Children of Incarcerated Parents Speak Truth to Power

YPAR Summer Academy Report 2023

Breaking Generational Curses: Success and Opportunity among Black Children of Incarcerated Parents

The Value of Incarcerated Black Lives during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kathleen Cleaver & Police Brutality

PODS IN ACTION: Engaged Detroit

Inquiry, Equity, and Impact: An Assessment of Educational Opportunity in Southwest Georgia

Georgia's Forgotten Population: How Georgia Criminal Legal System Harms Women and Girls

This study covers the landscape of women and girls within Georgia’s criminal legal system. We explore the lives of the girls within their schools and juvenile systems, and how their experience can influence future outcomes.

Children of Incarcerated Parents: Pathways to Resilience and Success Research Report

The objective of the project is to develop a better understanding of the factors that influence whether children will lead a crime-free life. Scholarship on parental incarceration centers mainly on the negative outcomes experienced by the millions of children left behind. This study will use interviews with children of incarcerated parents. Interview findings will be centered around the accomplishments, triumphs and resilient characteristics among children of incarcerated parents.

Pandemic, Pandemonium, and Plight for Graduate Students

Truth and Service: The Continuing Legacy of Howard University’s Sociology Department

The Continuing Legacy of Howard University’s Sociology Department

The Educational Attainment of COIP Is Not What You Think

“Parental incarceration affects over six million children; however, their voices are often marginalized in educational research. When children of incarcerated parents (COIP) enter the conversation, it is typically through a deficit-based lens; which includes behavioral concerns, low graduation rates, substandard test scores, and the propensity to follow their parents. Criminological research has a history of wanting to only view this population through a pessimistic and racist analysis. Therefore, the majority of educational research use this negative framework and does not include those that do not touch the system.”

Defiance Behind Bars: Incarcerated Black Women and Resistance

“As I frantically made connections between Black women activists inside and outside of prison while listening Diane’s story, I eventually settled on one question: how do Black women resist sexism and racism while incarcerate?”

Not Your Normal Conference: COIP Digital Conference

As Black researchers in a time of increasing political unrest and attacks on Black bodies (even more than before), every action we do becomes political.

Put Some Respek on Their Names: Conducting Qualitative Research with Black Children of Incarceration

“It should be the goal of each member of the research team to refrain from moving forward with studies that incorporate implicit bias, racist undertones and/or uphold negative myths about a population one is not a member of. ”

Publications Citations (ASA format)

Noel, Melissa E., Britany J. Gatewood, Sydni Myat Turner, and Bahiyyah Muhammad. 2024. “‘We Have Unique Experiences’: Familial Socialization of Children of Incarcerated Parents.” Criminal Justice and Behavior 00938548241240063. doi: 10.1177/00938548241240063.
Editors: Gatewood, Britany, Bahiyahh Muhammad, and Sydni Turner. 2023. Social Revolution: Black Children of Incarcerated Parents Speak Truth to Power. Routledge Press.
Gatewood, Britany, Bahiyyah Muhammad, and Sydni Turner. 2023. “Breaking Generational Curses: Success and Opportunity among Black Children of Incarcerated Parents.” Social Problems. spad026, https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spad026
Gatewood, Britany J., Ebony Russ, Yanesia Norris, and A. Cayce. 2023. “The Value of Incarcerated Black Lives during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Exploration of Healthcare Disparities of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Populations.” in Race, Ethnicity, and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati Press.
Gatewood, Britany. 2023. “Police Brutality.” African-American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed, Angela Jones. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
Gatewood, Britany. 2023. “Kathleen Cleaver.” African-American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Ed, Angela Jones. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
Gatewood, Britany, Joy Jones, Kathaleena Edward Monds, and Hattie Ford. 2022. “Inquiry, Equity, and Impact: An Assessment of Educational Opportunity in Southwest Georgia.” Prepared for Albany State University’s Center for Educational Opportunity. Albany, Georgia [Full PDF]
Miksztal, Elizabeth, Britany Gatewood. 2021. “Georgia's Forgotten Population: How Georgia Criminal Legal System Harms Women and Girls.” Prepared for ROAR You. Georgia. [Full PDF]
Muhammad, Bahiyyah, Britany Gatewood, and Sydni Turner. 2020. “Children of Incarcerated Parents: Pathways to Resilience and Success- Research Report." Prepared for Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Center for Advancing Opportunity. Washington: DC. [Full PDF]
Gatewood, Britany and Emily McDonald. 2020. “Pandemic, Pandemonium, and Plight for Graduate Students.” American Sociological Association Footnotes 48(2). [Full PDF]
Gatewood, Britany, Alexandra Rodriguez, and Marie Plaisime. 2020. “Truth and Service: The Continuing Legacy of Howard University’s Sociology Department.” The Sociologist 1(2). [Full PDF]
Gatewood, Britany. 2020. “The Educational Attainment of COIP is Not What You Think.” Dr. Muhammad Experience Blog. <www.drmuhammadexperience.com/post/educational-Attainment>.
Muhammad, Bahiyyah, Britany Gatewood, and Sydi Turner. 2020. “Put Some Respek on Their Names: Conducting Qualitative Research with Black Children of Incarceration.” Dr. Muhammad Experience Blog. <https://www.drmuhammadexperience.com/post/put-some-respek-on-their-names>
Gatewood, Britany. 2020. “Not Your Normal Conference: COIP Digital Conference.” Dr. Muhammad Experience Blog. <https://www.drmuhammadexperience.com/post/not-your-normal-conference>.
Gatewood, Britany J and Adele Norris. 2019. “Silence around Prisoner Protests: Criminology, Black Women and State-Sanctioned Violence.” Decolonization of Criminology and Justice 1(1):55-77. [Link]
Gatewood, Britany. 2018. “Defiance Behind Bars: Incarcerated Black Women and Resistance.”
Black Women’s Studies Association Blog. <https://www.blackwomensstudies.com/blog/ 2018/11/16/ defiance-behind-bars-incarcerated-black-women-and-resistance>.