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Frankie Y. Bailey
Associate Professor
School of Criminal Justice
Areas of expertise:
Crime and mass media/popular culture; crime history; race, gender, crime; crime and detective fiction
Crime and mass media/popular culture; crime history; race, gender, crime; crime and detective fiction
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Biography:
Frankie Y. Bailey has been on faculty in the School of Criminal Justice since 1990. Her research focuses on criminal justice and American popular culture/mass media and social history, with emphasis on issues of race/ethnicity, class, and gender. She is the co-editor of Famous American Crimes and Trials (Praeger Publishers, 2004), the co-author of Law Never Here: A Social History of African American Responses to Issues of Crime and Justice (Praeger Publishers, 1999), and the co-author of Blood on Her Hands (Wadsworth Publishing, 2004) about women who kill. She is the author of three mystery novels featuring Professor Lizzie Stuart, and is at work on a book about the worldviews of African American mystery writers.
Frankie Y. Bailey has been on faculty in the School of Criminal Justice since 1990. Her research focuses on criminal justice and American popular culture/mass media and social history, with emphasis on issues of race/ethnicity, class, and gender. She is the co-editor of Famous American Crimes and Trials (Praeger Publishers, 2004), the co-author of Law Never Here: A Social History of African American Responses to Issues of Crime and Justice (Praeger Publishers, 1999), and the co-author of Blood on Her Hands (Wadsworth Publishing, 2004) about women who kill. She is the author of three mystery novels featuring Professor Lizzie Stuart, and is at work on a book about the worldviews of African American mystery writers.

