Jeanne Flavin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology (at Rose Hill)
B.A., University of Kansas; M.A., Ph.D., American University, 1995
Dealy Hall 408C
441 E. Fordham Road
Bronx, NY 10458-9993
tel: (718) 817-3863
fax: (718) 817-3846
jflavin@fordham.edu |
Research Interests
Criminal justice; feminist criminology; prisoner re-entry; HIV/AIDS; currently collaborating with NGOs in New York City and elsewhere on research related to incarcerated women. |
Biography
Jeanne Flavin's research draws attention to the myriad ways in which the state enforces gendered social arrangements through its criminal justice and other formal policies and practices. She documents how the system’s responses to battered women, incarcerated women, and women who are addicted to drugs restrict some women’s rights to conceive, to be pregnant, and to bring up their children. She proudly chairs the board of directors for National Advocates for Pregnant Women, which advocates for the social and civil rights of all women, but especially low-income women who are pregnant and parenting. In 2009, Jeanne received a Fulbright Award to study women's pathways to prison in South Africa. See press article on her fellowship .
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| Selected Publications |
| Books |
| 2009. Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Criminalization of Women’s Reproduction. NYU Press, New York. |
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| 2007. Race, Gender, and Punishment: From Colonialism to the War on Terror. (Co-edited with Mary Bosworth). Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ. |
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| 2007. Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social Reality of Criminal Justice, 2nd edition. (Co-authored with Gregg Barak and Paul Leighton). Rowman and Littlefield. First edition: Roxbury Press, Los Angeles, CA. |
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| Articles |
| 2010 “Punishing Pregnant Drug-Using Women: Defying Law, Medicine and Common Sense” (with Lynn M. Paltrow). Journal of Addictive Diseases 29(2): 231-244. |
| 2010 “More than Visiting Hours; Maintaining Ties between Incarcerated Mothers and their Children” (with Venezia Michelsen and Tanya Krupat). Sociology Compass 4(8): 576-591. |
| 2003 "La Bodega de la Familia: Supporting Parolees’ Reintegration within a Family Context" (with David Rosenthal). Fordham Urban Law Journal 30(5): 1603-1620. |
| 2002 “A Glass Half Full? Harm Reduction among Pregnant Women Who Use Cocaine.” Journal of Drug Issues 32(3): 973-998. |
| 2001 "Of Punishment and Parenthood: Family-Based Social Control and the Sentencing of Black Drug Offenders.” Gender & Society 15(4): 609-631. |
2001 “Feminism for the Mainstream Criminologist.” Journal of Criminal Justice 29(4): 271-285.
Reprinted: The Criminal Justice System and Women, 3rd ed. (B. Price and N. Sokoloff 2003); Theories of Crime: A Reader (Renzetti, Curran, and Carr 2002), and Gendered (In)justice (Schramm and Koons-Witt, 2004). |
Courses Taught
Undergraduate
Gender and Crime;Introduction to Criminal Justice; U.S. Prison Community; InternshipSeminar; Introduction to Sociology; Research Methods; HIV/AIDS and the CJS
Graduate
Crime and Punishment; Crime and Public Health; Crime, Race, Class & Gender; Race, Gender and the CJS; Polemics of Crime Control; Thesis Seminar I and II. |
