Sitting in the office, attending meetings (both during and after work hours), and long-discussions and brainstorming with my supervisors!! It's the 9-5 job that I've ran away from my entire life, only to be confronted with when tasked with service. I think this work, while not introducing, has expanded my understanding of my knowledge of the criminal justice topic. However, uniquely, it definitely has created intersections with other interdisciplinary fields like Public Health, Sociology, and Criminology, as we actively work to identify crime trajectories and establish community-oriented solutions utilizing the work from different fields. I think, one of the areas that I worked with that became of interest to me was specifically related to Gender-based violence caused by hypermasculinity in Latin American countries. With academics during these six weeks, I fixated on GBV that has stemmed from machoism, and began to identify ways for community organizations to address this problem utilizing the work and research that CRIMLA had already done. My workload had grown at this point, as I was tasked with analyzing the trajectories of crime caused by Gender and Drugs.
Here's a photo of my work cubby. During week 4, I had added a fake plant that I found at a thrift store. It was too heavy to take back home unfortunately.