About Shantaé Motley

I seek to create a class environment that is conducive to effective learning and that provides instruction on how to take course knowledge and make it applicable to practitioner duties. Students can benefit from my vast industry experience, including work as a juvenile probation officer for Galveston County in Texas, a One Court One Judge Program Evaluator, and a Trauma-Informed Care Advisory Research Committee Member for the Texas Alliance of Child and Family Services.

I’ve also served as an assistant professor and program coordinator at Prairie View A&M University. In addition, I’ve published in several journals and worked as director of research and reporting at the Texas Juvenile Justice Department.

Recent Courses Taught

Crime in America
Crime Scene Investigation
Death Investigations
Research Methods

Selected Publications

Motley, S. M. (2021). Addressing the Perils Associated with Adverse Childhood Experiences in Washington State. Justice Policy Journal, 18(1), 1-15.

Joseph, J. J., Motley, S., Celik, Y., & Cintron, M. (2022). Racial socialization: the development
of perceptions about law enforcement among minority college students. SN Social Sciences, 2(12), 1-16.

Russell, K. N., Ash-Houchen, W., Motley, S. M., & Vijayan, V. (2023). The Juvenile Justice
System’s Role in the Persistence of Mass Incarceration in America. In Mass Incarceration in the 21st Century (pp. 138-148). Routledge.

Educational Background

California University of Pennsylvania
B.S., Justice Studies with a concentration in Forensic Science
St. Leo University
M.S., Criminal Justice with a concentration in Forensic Science
Prairie View A&M University
Ph.D., Juvenile Justice