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Julie C. Abril is a stand-alone, independent social scientist (criminologist/victimologist). She received her graduate training in interdisciplinary research from the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine Division from within the Department of Criminology, Law and Society in 2005. She tends to work alone as it is a better accommodation for her disability. She has published eleven (11) books on crime and violence occurring in rural areas and about matters of concern to Native American Indians. Her research has been funded by the United States Department of Justice/Bureau of Justice Statistics and the United States Department of Health and Human Services/National Institutes of Health. She served in The White House during the William Jefferson Clinton Administration. Dr. Abril's most significant scientific and public policy contribution was influencing changes to how racial and ethnic identity data are collected in prisons - and later in the broader United States population by the U.S. Census Bureau - beginning with her 1998 study in the Ohio Reformatory for Women, as published in 2003 "Native American Identities Among Women Prisoners" in THE PRISON JOURNAL vol 83(1) 1-13 American Corrections and Native Americans; also, (2007) "Native American Indian Women: Implications for Prison Research" SOUTHWEST JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE vol 4(2) 133-144; and, (2002) "The Native American Identity Phenomenon" CORRECTIONS COMPENDIUM vol 27(4) 1-7. This was the first pioneering study of how racial and ethnic identity data collection by official government agents - and their then-fatally flawed data collection instruments - contribute to undercounting individuals who hold muti-ethnic and muti-racial identities, such as do many Native American Indians. This study found 255 women who identify as Native American Indian, whereas the official government statistics reported only two (2) Native women in the prison at the time of this study. This was an important study to conduct because the changing nature of United States society is such that multi-racial and multi-ethnic identities are common in 21st Century society and must be accounted for in all institutions where government is to provide for its citizenry inside prisons and outside in the general public.

In 2017, Dr. Abril was awarded the Bonnie S. Fisher Victimology Career Achievement Award from the Division of Victimology, American Society of Criminology. This award is given to a scholar who has made a significant contribution to the discipline of victimology over the course of their lifetime. Her first book, Bad Spirits: A Cultural Explanation for Intimate Family Violence: Inside One American Indian Family (2008: Cambridge Scholars Publishing: UK), is held by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and Archives Museum of the Native American Indian, among other leading academic libraries such as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and others. Her second book was Crime and Violence in a Native American Indian Reservation: A Criminological Study of the Southern Ute Indians, Forward by Gilbert Geis, Past President American Society of Criminology (2009: VDM Publishing: Berlin). Another of her books, YAQUIx (Yaqui Woman): A Native American Indian Cultural Perspective of Identity Power and Evil (2015: Scholars' Press: Germany), provides an alternative Native American culturally-based theoretical perspective for violence and crime causation. Yet another of her books, Violent Victimization Among One Native American Indian Tribe (2008: VDM Publishing: Germany) found poor, young Indian women are more likely to become a victim of violence than non-Indians in this study. Finally, in Cultural Values v. Collective Efficacy: Measuring Values in a Native American Indian Tribe (2016: Scholars' Press: Germany), it was found Indian cultural values were more robust predictors of a variety of social phenomena than were non-Indian collective efficacy measures. Likewise, in Cultural Values v. Collective Efficacy: Differences Between Native American Indians and Non-Indians (2016: Lambert Academic Publishing: Germany) significant differences were found between Indian women and non-Indian women in this study. Culture, it was found, plays a significant role in these differing attitudes and behaviors.

Julie C Abril (talk) 21:39, 23 February 2023 (UTC) Julie C. Abril, PhD []