Joan Petersilia

Joan Petersilia (born January 2, 1951) is an American criminologist and the Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, as well as the faculty co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center.

Education

Petersilia received her B.A. from Loyola University of Los Angeles in 1972 in sociology, her M.A. from The Ohio State University in 1974, also in sociology, and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in criminology, law & society in 1990.^[1]

Career

Petersilia began working for the RAND Corporation in 1974, and remained there until 1994. She joined the faculty of the University of California, Irvine in 1992 as a professor of criminology, law and society, and in 2005, she became the founding director of the Center on Evidence-Based Corrections there.^[2] She joined the faculty of Stanford Law School in 2009.^[3]

Research

Petersilia has been researching prisoner reentry for over three decades.^[3]

Honors, awards and positions

For her research into prisoner reentry and the process of reintegrating released prisoners into society, Petersilia, along with Daniel Nagin, was awarded the 2014 Stockholm Prize in Criminology.^[3][4] Also that year, she received an honorary Doctor of Public Policy by the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School.^[1] She has also served as president of the American Society of Criminology and the Association of Criminal Justice Research in California. She is also a fellow of the American Society of Criminology and the recipient of its Vollmer Award.^[5]

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