Yasser A. Payne

Professor of Sociology

University of Delaware, Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice, Africana Studies

Yasser Arafat Payne is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. Dr. Payne’s street ethnographic research program examines policing and reentry; economic well-being and educational inequality; and gun violence with street-identified Black-Americans by utilizing Street Participatory Action Research (Street PAR)—the process of doing research and activism with street identified populations. Furthermore, Dr. Payne and his colleagues have authored the book project: Murder Town USA: Homicide, Structural Violence and Activism in Wilmington.