Katheryn K. Russell is an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has a Ph.D. from the criminology department of the University of Maryland, College Park. She is a member of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences , American Bar Association, and the American Society of Criminology , the and the

Russell was cited by the Supreme Court of the United States in Harris v. Alabama (1995) in regards to her 1994 article, The Constitutionality of Jury Override in Alabama Death Penalty Cases .

Russell has taught at the Alabama State University, American University School of Law , the City University of New York Law School , Howard University. She worked at the Southern Poverty Law Center as a legal intern.

Works

• THE COLOR OF CRIME: Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment and Other Macroaggressions (1998)

See also: Criminal Blackman Myth