Publications

2020. Cossyleon, Jennifer E. and Edward O. Flores. "'I Really Belong Here': Civic Capacity-Building among Returning Citizens." Sociological Forum TBD.

2019. Orwat, John, Donald Stemen, Christine George, Jennifer E. Cossyleon, and Whitney Key. "The Impact of the Cook County States Attorney's Office Deferred Prosecution Program." Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 1-21.

2018. Cossyleon, Jennifer E. “‘Coming Out of My Shell': Motherleaders Contesting Fear, Vulnerability, and Despair through Family-Focused Community Organizing.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 4: 1-13.  

2018. Rosenblatt, Peter and Jennifer E. Cossyleon. “Pushing the Boundaries: Searching for Housing in the Most Segregated Metropolis in America,” City & Community (17)1: 87-108.

2017. Cossyleon, Jennifer, John Orwatt, Christine George, Don Stemen, Whitney Key. "Deferring Felony Prosecution: A Process Evaluation of an Innovative Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office Program." Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, 3(4): 261-273.   

2016. Flores, Edward O. and Jennifer E. Cossyleon. “’I Went Through it so You Don’t Have To:’ Faith-Based Community Organizing for Ex-Offender Rights,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion,  55(4): 662-676. 

2015. Hlavka, Heather, Darren Wheelock and Jennifer E. Cossyleon. “Narratives of Commitment: Looking for Work with a Criminal Record.” The Sociological Quarterly, 56 (2) 213-236.

2020. Cossyleon, Jennifer E., Philip ME Garboden, and Stefanie DeLuca. "Recruiting Opportunity Landlords: Lessons from Landlords in Maryland. PRRAC and Mobility Works, 1-32. 

2019. Edin, Kathryn, Stefanie DeLuca, Jennifer E. Cossyleon, Christine Jang, and Philip ME Garboden. "Who Is Moving in? Neighborhood Divestment and Reinvestment in East Baltimore." The Poverty and Inequality Research Lab (PIRL), Johns Hopkins University, 1-73.

2019. Cossyleon, Jennifer E. "An Evaluation of the CSJ Saturday Family Literacy Program." The Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching, and Service, Georgetown University,  1-20. 

2018. Cossyleon, Jennifer E. "New Technologies and Consumer Knowledge: A Reference for Smart Grid Education." The Center for Urban Research and Learning,  Loyola University Chicago, June.

2018. Carrow, Lindy, Jennifer E. Cossyleon, Christine George, and Teresa Neuman. "Assessing the Network Effect of ISEIF's Public Education Efforts: Extended Local Research." The Center for Urban Research and Learning  & Social IMPACT Research Center at Heartland Alliance, 1-24. 

2017. Cossyleon, Jennifer E. Review of Kathryn Edin and Luke Shaefer’s $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. Teaching Sociology, 45 (2) 196-198.

2015. Jennifer E. Cossyleon and Reichert, Jessica. “Women and Reentry: Evaluation of St. Leonard’s Ministries Grace House Program.” Chicago, IL: Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, December: 1-98.

2015. George, Christine, Donald Stemen, John Orwat, Jennifer E. Cossyleon, Julie Hilvers and Edward Chong. “An Evaluation of the Cook County States Attorney’s Deferred Prosecution Program.” Chicago, IL: Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, August: 1-100. 

2015. Rosenblatt, Peter and Jennifer E. Cossyleon. “Take a Chance on Me:” A Review of the Milwaukee County HOME Security Deposit Assistance Program. Poverty and Race Research Action Council, January: 1-28. 

 2015. Rosenblatt, Peter and Jennifer E. Cossyleon. “Section 8 in the Suburbs: The Milwaukee County Security Deposit Assistance Program as an Incentive.” Poverty and Race, March/April 24 (2):3-6. 

2020. Cossyleon, Jennifer E. and Kyle Woolley. “Gender and Collective Action.” Pp. 387-408 in Companion on Gender Studies, edited by Nancy Naples. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

2019. Cossyleon, Jennifer E. "Power in Numbers": Marginalized Mothers Contesting Individualization through Grassroots Community Organizing. Pp. 115-127 in Advances in Gender Research, Volume 27, edited by Marcia Texler Segal, Kristy Kelly and Vasilikie Demos. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

2019. Cossyleon, Jennifer E. “Community Policing” Pp. 1-5 in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, edited by Anthony M. Orum. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

2018. Flores, Edward O. and Jennifer E. Cossyleon.  “Deflecting Privatization: Elite Civic Organizations and the Incorporation of Faith-based Organizations into the Contemporary Penal Field” Pp. 27-42 in Edward O. Flores’ Jesus Saved an Ex-Con": Political Activism and Redemption after Incarceration. New York, NY: New York University Press.

2018. Flores, Edward O. and Jennifer E. Cossyleon.  “Prophetic Redemption and Personal Relationships.” Pp. 143-162 in Edward O. Flores’s Jesus Saved an Ex-Con": Political Activism and Redemption after Incarceration. New York, NY: New York University Press