Jamein P. Cunningham is an assistant professor in the Economics Department at the University of Memphis. His primary areas of research are in the economics of crime, law, and social capital, focusing on access to social justice, economic justice, and legal aid for community support. He completed his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Michigan, where he was a Population Studies Center graduate trainee and the recipient of the Rackham Merit Fellowship and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute in Child Health and Development Fellowship. He earned his M.A. in economics from the University of North Texas and his B.A in economics at Michigan State University.