Valerie Jenness UCI in Irvine, California
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- Business name: Valerie Jenness UCI
- Address:
- 260 Aldrich Hall
Irvine, California 92697 - Phone number: 818-512-4493
- Year established: 2005
- Credit cards accepted: N/A
- Number of employees: N/A
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- Category: Education & Training
- Description:
- Specializations: Links between deviance and social control (especially law); the politics of crime control and criminalization; social movements and social change; and corrections and public policy. Valerie Jenness UCI's research has focused on prostitution, hate crime, and prison violence and grievances to explore the links between deviance and social control, the politics of crime control, social movements and social change, and corrections and public policy. Her research has been honored with awards from the American Sociological Association, Society for the Study of Social Problems, the Pacific Sociological Association, the American Society of Criminology, the Law and Society Association, the Western Society of Criminology, the University of California, and the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America. It has been translated and reprinted in German, Greek, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish, presented at an array of professional conferences and universities in the U.S. and abroad (e.g., Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Columbia, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Mexico, and South Africa), as well as to the U.S. Congress and the National Academy of Sciences. Finally, her research has been funded by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Justice, the California Policy Research Center, the California Department of Mental Health, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the University of California, and Washington State University, and has been discussed in well-known media outlets, such as National Public Radio in the U.S. and Australia, the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian (London). http://www.valeriejenness.com
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- Last update: 2017-04-06
- Visits: 346
