Articles

Brandon Jett’s articles explore the intersections of race, crime, and criminal justice in the United States from 1865 to the present.

Below you will find a list of his peer-reviewed articles. To find out more about each publication, click on the image to the left of each entry. For each article that is available electronically, links will redirect you to the actual article. For those that are not available, you will be redirected to the organizations/publisher's website where you can order copies. 

“Policing Crime in American History,” in The Routledge History of Crime in America, eds. James Campbell and Vivien Miller (Routledge Press, 2025).

“‘We Crave to Become a Vital Force in this Community’: Police Brutality and African American Activism in Birmingham, Alabama, 1920-1945,” The Alabama Review 75, no.1 (January 2022), 50-72.

Awarded the Milo B. Howard, Jr. Award for Best Article in The Alabama Review published between 2020 and 2022.

“‘Many People ‘Colored’ Have Come to the Homicide Office’: Police Investigations of African-American Homicides in Memphis, 1920-1945,” in Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South, eds. Amy Louise Wood and Natalie Ring (University of Illinois Press, 2018).

“‘Let Us Be Law Abiding Citizens’: Mob Violence and the Local Response in Harrison County, Texas, 1890-1925,” East Texas Historical Journal 54, no. 2 (Fall 2016): 22-52.
           Awarded the C.K. Chamberlain Award for “Outstanding Article” in the East Texas Historical Journal for 2016

“‘The Most Murderous Civilized City in the World’: Patterns of Homicide in Jim Crow Memphis, 1917-1926,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly (Summer 2015): 104-127.

“‘Detrimental to the Interests of the City’: Lynching and the Local Response in Bowie County, Texas, 1886-1922,” Journal of South Texas 28, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 30-45.

“Paris is Burning: Lynching and Racial Violence in Lamar County, Texas, 1890-1920,” East Texas Historical Journal 51, no. 2 (Fall 2013): 40-64.

          Awarded the C.K. Chamberlain Award for “Outstanding Article” in the East Texas Historical Journal for 2013

“Paris is Burning: Lynching and Racial Violence in Lamar County, Texas, 1890-1920,” Reprinted in Anti-Black Violence in Twentieth Century Texas, ed. Bruce Glasrud (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2015)