https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-lawyer/articles/remembering-award-winning-criminologist-joan-petersilia-who-inspired-students-advised-governors-and-made-a-difference-to-many/,
2020-06-25
Information trouvée : Petersilia, the Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law, Emerita, at Stanford passed away
on Monday, September 23, 2019. After receiving her graduate degree in sociology, Petersilia
began her career at the RAND Corporation, where she was director of the Criminal Justice
Program, publishing landmark works including Crime and Public Policy (a series, now
in its fourth edition, that she edited with renowned political scientist James Q.
Wilson), Community Corrections, and California’s Correctional Paradox of Excess and
Deprivation. Petersilia first came to Stanford Law School in 2005 as a visiting faculty
member, teaching California’s Prison Reform and Crime & Punishment in Calif: Advocacy
& Reform. She joined the faculty in 2009 and quickly found her way to the SCJC, becoming
a faculty co-director. On May 17, 2018, the American Academy of Political and Social
Science (AAPSS) inducted Joan Petersilia, the Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law and
Faculty Co-Director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, as a Thorsten Sellin
Fellow
when prisoners come home ; parole and prisoner reentry/ Joan Petersilia, 2009