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Joan Petersilia
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Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Phone: 824-6438
Office: 410C MPAA
Specializations: Program Evaluation, Public Policy, Juvenile Justice
Joan Petersilia is a Professor of Criminology, Law and Society in the School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine. Prior to joining UCI, she was a RAND Corporate Fellow, and Director of the Criminal Justice Program at RAND. She has directed major studies in policing, sentencing, career criminals, juvenile justice, corrections, and racial discrimination. She also has expertise in policy analysis, program evaluation, cost/benefit analysis, and statistical analyses.
Dr. Petersilia's current work focuses on two areas: parole and prisoner reintegration, and research to prevent crime and achieve justice for persons with disabilities. She is currently the director of the National Research Council's study on Crime Victims with Disabilities, a member of UCI's Mental Retardation Research Center, UCI Medical Center, the director of a California Policy Research Center study on Criminal Offenders with Developmental Disabilities, and Co-Chair of the Tri-County Task Force on Justice and Disabilities.
Dr. Petersilia has served as president of both the American Society of Criminology and of the Association of Criminal Justice Research in California. She is an elected fellow of the American Society of Criminology, and received its Vollmer Award for her overall contributions to crime and public policy.
She has also received awards from the International Crommunity Corrections Association, the American Probation and Parole Association, and the California Probation, Parole, and Corrections Association for her dedication to community corrections, and was the 2002 recipient of the Margaret Mead Award from the ICCA, and a recipient of the Western Society of Criminology's Paul Tappan Lifetime Achievement Award, and is a past recipient of UCI's Celebration of Teaching award. She currently is the Vice-Chair of the National Research Council's Committee on Law and Justice, and has been an advisor to several organizations, including the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department; Ventura County Probation Department, Los Angeles County Probation Department, National Institute of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquincy Prevention, National Institute of Corrections, the California Policy Seminar, the Urban Institute, and RAND.
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Selected Publications
- When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry, University of Chicago Press, 2003
- Reforming Probation and Parole in the 21st Century, American Correctional Association, 2002
- CRIME: Public Policies for Crime Control, ICS Press, 2002 (with James Q. Wilson)
- Community Corrections (1998)
- Prisons, edited with Michael Tonry (1999)
- Criminal Justice Policy (1998)
- Crime, edited with James Q. Wilson (1995)
- "When Prisoners Return to Communities: Political, Economic, and Social Consequences" (2000)
- "Challenges of Prisoner Reentry and Parole in California" (2000)
- "Doing Justice? Criminal Offenders with Developmental Disabilities" (2000)
- "Prison Research at the Beginning of the 21st Century" (2000)
- "Parole and Prisoner Reentry" (1999)
- "A Decade of Experimenting With Intermediate Sanctions: What Have We Learned?" (1999)
- "Justice for All? Offenders with Mental Retardation and Corrections," (1998)
- "Probation in America" (1997)
- "A Crime Control Rationale for Reinvesting in Community Corrections" (1995)
- Twenty-Five Years of NIJ and Its Research Program (1994)
- "Intensive Probation and Parole" (1993)
- Smart Sentencing: the Emergence of Intermediate Sanctions(1992)
- Expanding Options for Criminal Sentencing (1987)
- "Debating Crime and Punishment in California" (1994)
- Police Performance and Case Attrition (1987)
- The Influence of Criminal Justice Research (1987)
- Prison vs. Probation in California (1986)
- Granting Felons Probation (1985)
- Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System (1983)
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