Category: Forensic Psychology

I started my professional career within the legal arena. I was a victim advocate for the Philadelphia District Attorneys Office and through my legal work, I realized that mental health and psychology are very much related to victim advocacy and other areas of law. After my work with the D.A.s office, I sought out working…

Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers is a novel narrated by incarcerated teen, 14-year-old Maurice Reese Anderson. The novel begins with Reese detailing his experience in juvenile detention after 22 months of imprisonment, his sentence for stealing a prescription pad from a local doctors office, and selling them to his neighborhood drug dealer. However, Reese is…