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Durrell Washington

A Native New Yorker from the Bronx, Durrell Malik Washington Sr. is an Abolitionist, a Social Worker, Educator and PhD Candidate at the University of Chicago School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. Durrell is a critical and interdisciplinary scholar whose research draws from social work, sociological, criminological, developmental and legal theories and perspectives. His research interest lies at the intersections between P.I.C. Abolition, Juvenile legal law, policy and other youth serving systems, Black families, and Health. His current dissertation is a Narrative study that investigates how a period of juvenile incarceration shapes Black family life in the United States through the perspective of siblings of formerly incarcerated Black youth. Durrell is a 2022 American Society of Criminology Ruth D Peterson Fellowship Award Recipient, and a collaborator with the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work.