Fordham University            The Jesuit University of New York
 


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 is Associate Professor of Sociology at Fordham University.  She earned her PhD in Sociology: Justice from American University in 1995.  Her scholarship examines the impact of the criminal justice system on women, and her papers have appeared in Gender & Society, Justice Quarterly, and the Fordham University Urban Law Journal.  She co-authored the book, Class, Race, Gender & Crime:  Social Realities of Justice in America, 2nd ed. (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007) and co-edited (with Mary Bosworth) Race, Gender, and Punishment:  From Colonialism to the War on Terror (Rutgers, 2007).  Presently, she is writing a book, Our Bodies, Our Crimes on the criminalization of women’s reproduction that is slated for publication by NYU Press.  She proudly serves on the board of National Advocates for Pregnant Women.
Selected Publications
Books
In progress.  Our Bodies, Our Crimes:  The Criminalization of Women’s Reproduction.  NYU Press, New York.
2007.  Race, Gender, and Punishment: From Colonialism to the War on Terror.  (Co-edited with Mary Bosworth). Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ. 
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.

Articles

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; Internship Seminar; 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.

 

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