NICOLE RAFTER - Northeastern University

January 2012
NICOLE RAFTER
Positions: Prof. and Senior Research Fellow, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University;
Affiliated Faculty Member, Law, Policy and Society Program, Northeastern University
Education: State University of New York, Albany: Ph.D, Criminal Justice, 1978; Harvard University: M.A.T., 1963;
Swarthmore College: B.A., 1962
Contact information: email: nicolerafter@yahoo.com; snailmail: 44 Prince Street #104/ Boston, MA 02113 (USA);
tel: 617-523-0273
CURRENT PROJECTS
I am currently engaged in a study of genocide and, with Sandra Walklate, a study of intersections of genocide with
victimology.
With Paul Rock of the London School of Economics, I co-edit a series of books, the Compact Criminology Series,
published by Sage UK. The first volumes appeared in 2010.
At the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, in addition to teaching, I run a writing seminar for the junior
faculty and offer workshops for dissertation students..
BOOKS
PUBLICATIONS
2011 Criminology Goes to the Movies, with Michelle Brown. New York: NYU Press.
2009 Origins of Criminology: Readings from the 19 th -Century. Abington, Oxfordshire: Routledge-
Cavenish.
2008 The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime. New York University Press.
2006 Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society, 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
2006 Criminal Man by Cesare Lombroso, newly translated and with an introduction by Mary Gibson
and Nicole Hahn Rafter. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Korean edition, 2010.
2004 Criminal Woman by Cesare Lombroso and G. Ferrero, newly translated and with an introduction
by Nicole Hahn Rafter and Mary Gibson. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Stimulated by our new translation, in 2009 Italian scholars republished the entire original of La
donna delinquente prefaced by an Italian translation of our introduction to Criminal Woman. A
Korean translation is in the works.
2000 Encyclopedia of Women and Crime. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press. Editor-in-Chief.
2000 Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society. New York: Oxford University Press.
1999 Prisons in America: A Reference Handbook. ABC-CLIO, Contemporary World Issues Series.
With Debra Stanley.

1997 Creating Born Criminals. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press.
1995 International Feminist Perspectives in Criminology: Engendering a Discipline. Buckingham, UK:
Open University Press. Co-edited with Frances M. Heidensohn.
2000 Introduction reprinted in G. Letherby and Y. Jewkes (eds.), Criminology: A Reader (Sage
Publications).
1990 Partial Justice: Women, Prisons, and Social Control. 2d. ed., rev. New Brunswick, N.J.:
Transaction Publishers.
Individual chapters from this book have frequently been reprinted in edited collections.
1988 White Trash: The Eugenic Family Studies, 1877-1919. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
1985 Partial Justice: Women in State Prisons, 1800-1935. Boston: Northeastern University Press (lst
ed.).
1982 Judge, Lawyer, Victim, Thief: Women, Gender Roles, and Criminal Justice. Boston: Northeastern
University Press. Co-edited with Elizabeth A. Stanko.
ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, PREFACES
2012 “The Melodramatic Career of Lombroso’s La donna delinquente, chapter for P. Knepper and P.
Ystehede, eds. The Complete Lombroso, forthcoming, Routledge
2012 “Personal Reflection,” for S. Miller, A. Gover, and C. Renzetti, eds., Handbook on Gender and
Crime Studies, forthcoming Routledge
2012 “Genocide and the Dynamics of Victimization,” with Sandra Walklate, forthcoming in European
Journal of Criminology
2011 “Empathy: Criminology’s Inner Ape,” with Chad Posick (first author); under review
2011 “Lombroso’s La donna delinquente: Its Strange Journeys in Italy, England and the USA, Including
Scenes of Mutilation and Salvation.” Ch. 7 (pp 147-160) in Travels of the Criminal Question:
Cultural Embeddedness and Diffusion, ed. Dario Melossi, Maximo Sozzo and Richard Sparks,
Oxford: Onati International Series in Law and Society.
2011 “Origins of Criminology.” Ch. 9 (pp 143-156) in What Is Criminology , ed. Mary Bosworth and
Carolyn Hoyle, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2010 “Lombroso’s Reception in the United States.” Ch. 1 (pp 1-16) in The Eternal Recurrence of Crime
and Control: Essays ini Honour of Paul Rock, ed. David Downes, Dick Hobbs, and Tim Newburn,
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2010 “Silence and Memory in Criminology. The American Society of Criminology 2009 Sutherland
Address.” Criminology 48 (2): 339-56.
2010 “Lombroso, the Gothic, and Social Control.” In Popular Culture, Crime, and Social Control, ed.
Mathieu Deflem, Emerald/JAI Press, Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance v. 14: 263-84; with
Per Ystehede.
2009 “Le teorie biologiche sul crimine dopo Lombroso.” In Cesare Lombroso cento anni dopo, ed.
Silvano Montaldo and Paolo Tappero. Torino: UTET.

2009 “Lombroso e la cultura di massa in Europa (1890-1930),” with Per Ystehede. In Cesare Lombroso
cento anni dopo, ed. Silvano Montaldo and Paolo Tappero. Torino: UTET.
2008 “Criminology’s Darkest Hour: Biocriminology in Nazi Germany.” The Australian and New
Zealand Journal of Criminology 41 (2): 287-306.
2007 “Somatotyping, Antimodernism, and the Production of Criminological Knowledge.” Criminology
45 (4) (November): 805-834.
2007 “Crime, Film, and Criminology: Recent Sex Crime Movies.” Theoretical Criminology, 11(3):
403-420.
2012 Revised version to appear in J. Sutherland and K. Felty, eds. Cinematic Sociology
2006 “Hans J. Eysenck in Fagin’s Kitchen: The Return to Biological Theory in 20 th -Century
Criminology.” History of the Human Sciences, 19(4): 37-56.
2006 “Apes, Men and Teeth: Earnest A. Hooton and Eugenic Decay.” Pp. 248-268 in Sue Currell and
Christina Cogdell, ed.s, Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and Mass Culture in the 1930.
Columbus, Ohio: Ohio University Press.
2006 “Gender, Genes and Crimes: An Evolving Feminist Agenda.” Ch. 11 (pp. 222-242) in Frances
Heidensohn, ed. Gender and Justice: New Concepts and Approaches. Cullompton: Willan
Publishing.
2005 “The Murderous Dutch Fiddler: Criminology, History, and the Problem of Phrenology.”
Theoretical Criminology 9 (1): 65-96.
Reprinted in Criminological Theory: A Text/ Reader, by Stephen Tibbetts and Craig Hemmens.
Sage, Sept. 2009
2005 Preface to David M. Horton, ed. The Lombroso Omnibus. Lewiston, New York: Edwin R.
Mellen.
2005 “Badfellas: Movie Psychos, Popular Culture, and Law.” Pp. 339-357 in Michael Freeman, ed.
Law and Popular Culture. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
2005 “Criminal Anthropology: Its Reception in the United States and the Nature of its Appeal. In Peter
Becker and Richard Wetzell, eds., Criminals and Their Scientists: Essays on the History of
Criminology. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
2005 “Cesare Lombroso and the Origins of Criminology: Rethinking Criminological Tradition,”
Chapter 2.1 (pp. 33-42) in Stuart Henry and Mark Lanier, The Essential Criminology Reader.
Boulder, CO: Westview/Basic Books.
2004 “The Unrepentant Horse-slasher: Moral Insanity and the Origins of Criminological Thought,”
Criminology 42 (4) (Nov. 2004): 977-1006
2004 “Earnest A. Hooton and the Biological Tradition in American Criminology.” Criminology 42 (3)
(August): 735-771
2004 “The Criminalization of Mental Retardation.” Pp. 232-257 in Steven Noll and James Trent, Jr.,
eds., Perpetual Children: A History of Mental Retardation in America. New York: New York
University Press
2001 “Seeing and Believing: Images of Heredity in Biological Theories of Crime.” Brooklyn Law
Review 67 (1): 71-99.

2008 Repr. in Susan Silbey, ed., Law and Science Volume I: Epistemological, Evidentiary, and
Relational Engagements. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
2001 "Feminism: Criminological Aspects." In MacMillan Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, ed.
Joshua Dressler. New York: MacMillan Reference Books
2001 “American Criminal Trial Films: An Overview of their Development, 1930-2000.” Journal of
Law and Society 28 (1) (March): 9-25; published simultaneously pp. 9-24 in Stefan Machura and
Peter Robson, eds., Law and Film. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.
2001 “National Prison Association.” The Oxford Companion to United States History. New York:
Oxford University Press.
2000 “Women’s Prison Reform: Past, Present and Future.” In Office of Justice Programs, U. S.
Department of Justice, National Symposium on Women Offenders, Washington, D.C. December
13-15, 1999: A Conference Report: 13-15. U.S. Department of Justice. Also published as
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/cpo/womenoffenders/women.txt.
Repr. in Women, Girls, and Criminal Justice 1 (5) (August/Sept. 2000): 67-68, 78.
2000 “Biological Theories of Crime: A Historical Overview.” Curator essay (pp. 41-51) in catalog for
Searching the Criminal Body: Art/Science/Prejudice, 1840s to Present, an exhibit co-curated by
Susan Erony and Nicole Rafter, September 26-November 5, 2000, University Art Museum, State
University of New York at Albany.
1997 The More Things Change . . . Women Review of Books XIV (10-11) (July): 3-4.
1998, 2002, Repr. in Joyce M. Jarrett, Pathways: A Text for Developing Writers (lst and 2d
editions) (Allyn-Bacon).
1997 Psychopathy and the Evolution of Criminological Knowledge. Theoretical Criminology I (2):
235-59.
1997 Gender, Representation, and Social Control': An Interdisciplinary Women's Studies Course. With
Lisa Cuklanz. Women and Criminal Justice 8(4): 99-109.
1997 The Realization of Partial Justice: A Case Study in Social Control. Ch. 7 from Partial Justice,
repr. pp. 69-83 in James W. Marquart and Jonathan R. Sorensen, eds., Correctional Contexts:
Contemporary and Classical Readings. Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Company.
1997 Transgression Obsession. Review of Ann-Louise Shapiro, Breaking the Codes: Female
Criminality in Fin-de-Si le Paris, in Women Review of Books XV (1) (Oct.): 23-24.
1994 Eugenics, Class, and the Professionalization of Social Control." Pp. 214-227 in George Bridges
and Martha Myers, eds., Inequality and Social Control. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
1994 Foreword to Mary Ann Hawkes, Excellent Effect: The Edna Mahan Story. College Park,
Maryland: American Correctional Association.
1992 Criminal Anthropology in the United States. Criminology 30: 525-545.
2008 Repr. pp. 84-91 in Claudia Malacrida and Jacqueline Low, Sociology of the Body: A
Reader. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press Canada.
1998 Repr. Pp. 78-91 in Stuart Henry and Werner Einstadter, eds., The CRIMINOLOGY
Theory Reader. New York: New York University Press.

1997 Repr. pp. 51-64 in Peter Cordella and Larry Seigel, eds., Readings in Contemporary
Criminological Theory. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
1994 Repr. pp. 221-241 in Piers Bierne, ed., The Origins and Growth of Criminology: Essays
on Intellectual History, 1760-1945. Dartmouth Publishing Company.
1992 Claims-making and Socio-cultural Context in the First U.S. Eugenics Campaign. Social
Problems 39: 17-34.
1991 Earlier version published in Northeastern University, Women's Studies Program,
Working Papers in Gender Studies #9.
1992 Some Consequences of Strict Constructionism. Social Problems 39: 38-39.
1991 Prison Reform Movement, 1870-1930. Pp. 361-363 in Helen Tierney, ed., Women's Studies
Encyclopedia, Vol. II. New York: Greenwood Press.
1991 Equal Treatment or Different Treatment The Origins of Today's Policy Dilemmas in the Care of
Incarcerated Women. U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Female Offenders.
The June 7, 1991 Forum on Issues in Corrections. A Record and Proceedings. Washington, D.C.:
Federal Bureau of Prisons.
1993 Revised version published pp. 7-11 in Female Offenders: Meeting Needs of a Neglected
Population. American Correctional Association: Laurel Park, Maryland.
1992 Published as "Equality or Difference" in Federal Prisons Journal 3: 16-19.
1990 The Social Construction of Crime and Crime Control. Journal of Research in Crime and
Delinquency 27: 376-389.
1990 Crime and the Family. Women and Criminal Justice 1: 73-86.
1990 Also published by Northeastern University Publications: Klein Lecture Series.
1990 Equal Protection Forcing Changes in Women's Prisons. Correctional Law Reporter 2: 49, 51-52.
1989 Gender and Justice: The Equal Protection Issue. Pp. 89-109 in Lynne Goodstein and Doris
MacKenzie, eds., The American Prison: Issues in Research and Policy. New York: Plenum Press.
1989 Prisons, Women Inmates In. Pp. 288-290 in Helen Tierney, ed., Women's Studies Encyclopedia,
Vol. I. New York: Greenwood Press.
1989 Everyone Wins: A Collaborative Model for Mainstreaming Women's Studies. With Susan G.
Williamson and Amy Cohen-Rose. Journal of Academic Librarianship 15: 20-23.
1989 Crime and the Family. Socialist Review 19: 123-129.
1988 White Trash as Social Ideology. Transaction/ Society 26: 43-49.
1987 Even in Prison, Women are Second-class Citizens. Human Rights 14: 29-31, 51.
1986 Left Out By the Left: Crime and Crime Control. Socialist Review 89: 7-23.
1985 Women: Second-Class Inmates." Chicago Tribune, 8 October 1985:19.
1986 Repr. Ecumenical Women's Center Newsletter 14 (January/February): 1-2.

1985 Kathy Webb: Why She Would Lie in the Dotson Case. The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.), 5
June 1985: 29.
1985 Gender, Prisons, and Prison History. Social Science History 9: 233-247.
1992 Repr. in Eric H. Monkkonen, ed., Crime & Justice in American History. Vol VI: Prisons
and Jails. N.p.: K. G. Saur Publications.
1983 Prisons for Women, 1790-1980. Pp. 129-180 in Michael H. Tonry and Norval Morris, eds.,
Crime and Justice: An Annual Review of Research, Vol. 5. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press.1998
1998 Repr. Pp.30-45 in T. Flanagan, J. Marquart, and K. Adams, eds., Incarcerating Criminals:
American Prisons and Jails in Social Context.
New York: Oxford.
1983 Chastising the Unchaste: Social Control Functions of the Women's Reformatory System. Pp.
288-311 in Stan Cohen and Andrew Scull, eds., Social Control and the State. Oxford: Martin
Robertson.
1988 Repr. in Ronald Farrell and Victoria Sweigert, eds., Social Deviance, 3d ed. Belmont,
Calif: Wadsworth.
1987 Tr. and repr. pp. 195-216 in Tamar Pitch, ed., Diritto e Rovescio: Studi Sulle Donne e il
Controllo Sociale. Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane.
1982 Hard Times: The Evolution of the Women's Prison System and the Example of the New York
State Prison for Women at Auburn, 1893-1933. Ch. 11 in Rafter and Stanko, eds., Judge, Lawyer,
Victim, Thief: Women, Gender Roles, and Criminal Justice. Boston: Northeastern University
Press.
1982 Sex Role Operations: Strategies for Women Working in the Criminal Justice System. With
Phyllis Jo Baunach. Ch. 13 in Judge, Lawyer, Victim, Thief: Women, Gender Roles, and
Criminal Justice. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
1981 Marxian Feminism: Implications for Criminal Justice Policy. With Elena Natalizia. Crime and
Delinquency 27: 81-98.
1982 Repr. in Natalie J. Sokoloff and Barbara Price, eds., Women Offenders, Victims and
Workers. New York: Clark Boardman.
1981, 1988 Excerpted in 3d and 4th editions of Martin R. Haskell and Lewis Yablonsky, Juvenile
Delinquency. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
1980 Female State Prisoners in Tennessee: 1831-1979. Tennessee Historical Quarterly 39: 485-497.
1980 Matrons and Molls: The Study of Women's Prison History. Pp. 261-270 in James A. Inciardi and
Charles E. Faupel, eds., History and Crime: Implications for Criminal Justice Policy. Beverly
Hills: Sage.
1980 Too Dumb to Know Better: Cacogenic Family Studies and the Criminology of Women.
Criminology 18: 3-25.
1978 Crime and Intelligence: A Historical Look at the Low IQ Theory. Pp. 67-74 in James A. Inciardi
and Kenneth C. Hass, eds., Crime and the Criminal Justice Process. Kendall/Hunt.
1975 New York's Second Felony Law. With Scott Christianson. New York Times, 30 May 1975.

1969 How to Teach a Delinquent. Atlantic Monthly (March): 66-72.
BOOK REVIEWS
American Journal of Legal History (1995)
American Historical Review (1997, 1993, 1992, 1990)
American Studies (1995)
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology (1995)
Contemporary Crises (1984)
Crime and Delinquency (1982)
Crime, Law, and Social Change (2005)
Crime, Media, Culture (2008)
Criminal Justice History (1985)
Criminal Law Bulletin (1979)
Gender and Society (1991)
History of Education Quarterly (1997, 1996)
Journal of Interdisciplinary History (1996)
Justice Quarterly (1986, 1984)
Law and History Review (1995)
Left History (1998; with Amy Farrell)
New England Quarterly (1988, 1984)
Signs (1993)
Theoretical Criminology (1999)
Western Historical Quarterly (1989)
Women and Criminal Justice (1997, 1994, 1992)
EXHIBITS
2000 Searching the Criminal Body: Art/Science/Prejudice, 1840s to Present. An exhibit co-curated by Susan
Erony and Nicole Rafter, September 26-November 5, 2000, University Art Museum, State University of
New York at Albany.
1998 In Search of the Criminal Body: Science and Myth in Criminological History. An exhibit organized,
designed, and mounted at Northeastern University, May 11-30, 1998. With Susan Erony.
AWARDS, GRANTS, HONORS
2012 Appointed Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Sociology and Social Policy,
University of Liverpool (until 31 December 2014)
2010 Fulbright Fellow, Austria
2009 Sutherland Award, American Society of Criminology
2005-2006 Visiting Scholar, Wolfson College and Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford
2005 Entry in Encyclopedia of Prisons, s.v. "Rafter, Nicole Hahn." Sage Publications; ed. Mary
Bosworth.
2004 Visiting Senior Research Fellow, St John College, Oxford University
2003 Grant for Biology and Crime: Translation of a Classic Text from National Library of Medicine,
NIH, to support new translation of Lombroso Criminal Man (with Mary Gibson)
2001 Resident Research Fellow, Study Center of Liguria (Bogliasco Foundation)

2000 Elected Fellow, American Society of Criminology
1999 Senior Scholar Award, Division on Women and Crime, American Society of Criminology
1999 American Association on Mental Retardation, Wilbur Founder Award for research contribution of
Creating Born Criminals.
1998 Distinguished Alumni Award, State University of New York at Albany (School of Criminal
Justice)
1998 Elected Chair, Crime, Law, & Deviance Section, American Sociological Association
1997 Elected Chair, Division on Women and Crime, American Society of Criminology
1997 Exhibition Grant, One Hundred Fund, Northeastern University.
1997 Teaching Diversity Through Crime Films. Instructional Development Fund Grant, Northeastern
University
1997 Exhibition Planning Grant, One Hundred Fund, Northeastern University
1997 "A Search for Social Justice: A Biography of Nicole Hahn Rafter." By Alexander Pisciotta.
Women and Criminal Justice 9 (11): 1-15.
1996 Women Studies Program ACE Initiative. Instructional Development Fund Grant, Northeastern
University
1995 Parsons Scheme Research Residency Grant, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney
1995 Elected Vice President, American Society of Criminology, Division on Women and Crime
1993 Principal Speaker at James Madison University, Arts and Sciences Symposium on Justice:
"Beyond Gendered Justice"
1989 Robert D. Klein University Lecturer, Northeastern University
1988 New York State Archives, Research Residency Award
1986-87 Northeastern University Research and Scholarship Development Grant, "Institutions for
Delinquent Girls: A Social History"
1986-87 Northeastern University Instructional Development Grant, "Integrating Women's Studies into the
Curriculum: A New Approach"
1985 Visiting Research Scholar, Wellesley College Center for Research on Women
1982 Northeastern University Research and Scholarship Development Grant, "The Incarceration of
Women in the United States: A History of the Women's Prison System"
1979 National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, LEAA, "Current Problems of the
Women's Correctional System: Origins and Development"
1976 National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Support Grant
1976 State University of New York, Albany, School of Criminal Justice, Dissertation Fellowship
1973 State University of New York, Albany, University Fellowship

1962 Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Swarthmore College
Johannes Kepler University, Sommersemester, 2010
TEACHING
Victoria University, Wellington (NZ), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, External Examiner for PhD.
thesis of Anna McKenzie, " rying to Stem Their Downward Course The Development of Penal Governance for
Women in New Zealand."(2004)
University of Queensland (Australia), Department of History, marker for Ph.D thesis by Emily Wilson, ugenic
Ideology and Racial Fitness in Queensland (2003)
University of Melbourne (Australia), Department of Criminology, mini-course in Biological Theories of Crime (July
2003)
Northeastern University, College of Criminal Justice, Senior Fellow, 2002-
Canterbury University, Christchurch, NZ, Outside Examiner on dissertation of Samantha Jeffries (2001)
Northeastern University, Law, Policy, and Society Program: Adjunct Professor, 1998- ; Affiliated faculty member,
1981-1998; Chair, Dissertation Committee, April Pattavina (PhD. awarded 1998); Chair, Dissertation Committee,
Amy Farrell (PhD. awarded 2001); Chair, Dissertation Committee, Randall Grometstein (PhD awarded 2003);
currently chair of two committees (Kristin Bell, writing on Gender and genocide in the Armenian massacre, and
Rebecca Pfeffer, writing on victimization of children with autism) and also serve on two other dissertation
committees.
Princeton University, Dept. of History and Program in African American Studies: Member of dissertation committee
for Cheryl Hicks (degree completed August 1999)
Northeastern University: Faculty member, College of Criminal Justice (Assistant Prof., 1977-1982; tenured 1983;
Associate Prof. 1982-1985; Full Prof. 1985-1998; 1998-present, Professor and Sr. Research Fellow). Currently I am
on four dissertation committees, two as chair, and am directing one independent study.
Northeastern University, Dept. of School and Counseling Psychology: Member of Ph.D committees for Diane Green
Reilly (degree awarded July 1997) and Julie Gold (degree awarded April 1998)
Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies at Radcliffe: Team-taught course on Gender, Representation, and Social
Control, Spring 1995, Spring 1996
La Trobe University (Sydney, Australia), Department of Sociology: Outside Evaluator for Master's Thesis by
Kirsten Elizabeth Deane, 1995
Indiana University: Visiting Professor, Spring 1993
Simon's Rock College: 1970-1973
American Community Schools of Athens (Greece): 1963-1965
Graduate courses taught: Biological Theories of Crime; Crime Films and Society; Criminal Behavior Systems;
Criminal Justice Process; Gender and Justice; Gender, Representation, and Social Control; Imprisonment; Penology
and Corrections; Punishment; Social Control; Theories of Law and Society
Undergraduate courses taught: Biological Theories of Crime, Crime Films, Criminology, Incarceration,
Introduction to Criminal Justice, Prisons and Corrections, Social Control, Women and Criminal Justice

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
OFFICES AND BOARD MEMBERSHIPS
Editorial Board, Theoretical Criminology, 2011-
Editorial Board, AMS Annual on Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement (ed. Larry Sullivan), 2011-
Editorial Board, Studi Sulla Questione Criminale, 2006-
Editorial Board, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 2005-
Editorial Board, Feminist Criminology, 2005-
International Editorial Board, British Journal of Criminology, 2005-
Series Editor, Gender and Justice Series, Carolina Academic Press, 2000-2003
Editorial Board, Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, 2000-
Criminology: Editorial Board, 1998-2000; 1992-1995
Punishment and Society: Associate Editor, 1998-2002
Law and History Review: Editorial Board, 1995-2000
American Society of Criminology, Division on Women and Crime: Chair, 1997-1999; Vice President, 1994-1996;
Executive Board, 1984-85, 1986-87
American Sociological Association--Crime, Law, and Deviance Section: Chair, 1998-1999; Council, 1993-1996
Northeastern University Women's Studies Program: Executive Board, 1983-present; Advisory Board, 1981-1983,
1985-1987
Cambridge Documentary Films: Advisory Board, Film project on Defending Our Lives, 1990-1991. Winner of
1994 Academy Award for Best Documentary
Education Development Center, Newton, MA: Advisory Committee, Programming for Women Offenders Project,
1989--1992. Funded by National Institute of Corrections.
Social Justice for Women: Executive Board, 1989--1991
Women and Criminal Justice: Editorial Board, 1988-1995
American Society of Criminology: Executive Board, 1985-88
Northeastern University Press: Editorial Board, 1983-1986
Center for the Study of Women's Prisons, Northeastern University: Director, 1979-81
EDITORIAL WORK (additional)
North American Book Review Editor for Theoretical Criminology, 2008-2011

Compact Criminology Series, Sage UK, co-editor with Paul Rock. First three titles published 2010.
International Advisory Board, British Journal of Criminology (starting 2005)
Facing History and Ourselves, Consultant, Eugenics in America project (2002).
Carolina Academic Press, Criminal Justice Series, Editorial Board (1999-2001 )
JAI Press, Editorial Associate, Research in Law, Deviance and Social Control series (1983-86)
Manuscript reviews for Crime and Delinquency, Criminology, Gender and Society, Journal of Criminal Justice,
Journal of Criminal Justice Education, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Journal of Research in Crime and
Delinquency, Law and History Review, Law and Society Review, Signs, Social Problems, Theoretical Criminology,
Women and Criminal Justice, and various publishing houses.
WOMEN'S STUDIES/ AFFIRMATIVE ACTION (additional)
American Society of Criminology, Division on Women and Crime: Founder and co-chair of Mentoring Program,
1993-1996; Chair of Awards Committee (1989-92); Task Force on Sexual Harassment (1989-90); Nominations
Committee (1985-86); Chair of Fellows Nominations Committee (1984-85); Committee on Women: Steering
Committee (1979)
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Affirmative Action Committee (1979-84)
New England Women's Studies Association, 1980 Annual Meeting: Steering Committee; Program Committee
Sociologists for Women in Society: Mentor Program (1989--1992); Annual Meeting Convention Committee (1979)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Proposal Review, 2009
Insignia Films, TV series ard Time in America, January 2002 (consultant)
Channel 5 (Boston) program on ugenics, March 2001 (featured guest)
American Society of Criminology: 2006-2010,, Fellows Nominations Committee; 1999-2000 Ruth Shone Cavin
Young Scholar Award Committee; 1997 Annual Meeting Program Committee, Chair of Social Construction
Division; Awards Committee (1998-1999; 1995-1996); Division on Critical Criminology: Election Committee
(1996-1997); Nominations Committee (1995-1996); Site Selection Committee (1990-1991); Student Awards
Committee (1989-1990, 1977-1978); Awards Committee and Chair, Subcommittee on Bloch Award (1988-1989);
Awards Committee and Chair, Subcommittee on Sellin-Glueck Award (1987-1988); Nominations Committee
(1985-1986, 1980-1981); Committee on Ethical Issues in Criminological Research (1984-1985)
American Sociological Association, Crime, Law and Deviance Section: Nominations Committee (1997-1998);
Membership Committee (1994-1995); Publications Committee (1993-1994); Student Awards Committee (1992-
1993); Nominations Committee, Chair (1988-1989) and Committee Member (1989-1990)
Consulting, NEH-supported documentary film on California's Eugenic Sterilization Program, 1909-1952 (1995)
Consulting, Facing History and Ourselves (1994-1995)
Chemung County Historical Society, participant in funded project on "Moral Entrepreneurs: Institutional Reform in
19th Century New York State" (1989-1990)

Massachusetts Department of Correction: Stonehill Conference (1990); Advisory Group on Female Offenders
(1987-1988)
National Archives: Grant review
National Endowment on the Humanities: Grant reviews
National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice: Consultant (1979)
National Science Foundation: Grant proposal reviews
New York State Archives: Consultant (1989)
New York State Institute for Public Policy Alternatives: Research Analyst (1974-1975)
Smith College School of Social Work: Advisory Panel on Women in Prison Legal Project (1981-1982)
Testimony on Presumptive Sentencing Bill, Massachusetts State House, 27 February 1985
University of Southern Maine, Criminology Program Review--1994; 2000.
Tenure and promotion reviews: Florida International University; Fordham University; John Jay College of Criminal
Justice; Lancaster (England) University; Northern Arizona University; Ohio University; University of Delaware;
University of New Orleans; University of Oklahoma, Norman; University of Cape Town (South Africa); University
of Hawaii; Simon Fraser University; Simon Fraser University; Sonoma State University; University of California,
Irvine; University of Sydney; Virginia Tech University; University of Denver; Sheffield University
INVITED PAPERS AND TALKS
2011 Keynote speech on “Defining Genocide for Criminology,” Oslo, Norway conference on History of
Criminology, Crime, and Criminal Law
2010 Chronology for Criminology, Institut fur Rechts und Kriminalsoziologie, Vienna
2008 University of Lyon, Conference on Women and Crime in the British Isles and North America since 1500,
Keynote speech on From Eve to Andrea Yates: Theories of Female Criminality from Genesis to the Present
2008 University of Portsmouth, Conference on Crime Cultures, Keynote speech on he City as Character in
Scorsese The Departed
2006 Oxford University, Centre for Criminology, .J. Eysenck and the Revivial of Biological Explanations of
Crime
2006 University of Kent, Criminology, Film, and Recent Sex Crime Movies
2003 Christchurch University (NZ), Faculty Seminar, ovie Psychos
2003 University College London, Faculty of Laws, Conference on Law and Popular Culture, adfellas: Movie
Psychos, Popular Culture, and Law
2003 International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain, Conference on Discourses and Practices of
Crime and Punishment, Lombroso Criminal Woman: Its Strange Journeys in England and the U.S.,
including Scenes of Mutilation and Salvation
2003 Vienna, Instituts fur Rechts und Kriminalsoziologie, conference on Revival of the Natural Sciences,
Biological Theories of Crime
2003 University of Georgia, Dept. of Criminal Justice, Keynote address for film festival, Movie Psychopaths
2002 University of Denver, Department of Sociology, Keynote speech for inauguration of new Criminology
track, Criminal Bodies
2002 European University Institute, Florence, Italy, Seminar on ombroso Criminal Woman as a Normalizing
Discourse (with Mary Gibson)
2001 Vienna, International Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenscheften, Workshop on Urban Space and
Criminological Discourse, Space, Gender, and Representation in Lombroso La donna delinquente
2001 Brooklyn Law School, DNA Symposium, eeing and Believing: Images of Heredity in Biological Theories
of Crime
2000 Hawaii Department of Public Safety, Symposium on Female Offenders, Building the Case: Why Focus on
Women Offenders

2000 University of New York at Albany, DNA Conference of School of Criminal Justice, mages of Heredity in
Biological Theories of Crime
2000 Vermont Dept. of Corrections and Governor Commission on Women, Conference on Women in Prison,
More Than New Walls The Significance of Vermont New Women Prison
1999 Washington, DC., National Symposium on Women Offenders (Office of Justice Programs), omen Prison
Reform: Past, Present, Future
1998 Florence, Italy, Symposium on the History of Criminology: Criminal Anthropology: Its Reception in the
United States and the Nature of its Appeal
1998 Rhode Island Conference on Women in Prison: From Research to Reality, Keynote address on omen
Prison Reform: Past, Present, Future
1998 Northeastern University, Opening of exhibit In Search of the Criminal Body: Science and Myth in
Criminological History, talk on epresenting Criminal Bodies: Art, Science and Prejudice Northeastern
University, May 14, 1998. (With Susan Erony)
1998 Old Dominion University, Film and Video Festival, This is Hell Movies about Prisons and the Death
Penalty
1997 John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Graduate School and University Center, reating Born Criminals: An
Illustrated History of Biological Theories of Crime
1996 Boston Area Colloquium on Feminist Theory, Panel on Feminist Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Teaching
and Research
1996 Harvard Facing History Project, Creating Born Criminals: Biological Theories of Crime and Eugenics
1995 Central Connecticut State University, Department of Sociology: "Born Criminals: A Genealogy"
1995 University of Melbourne, Law School, "Biological Theories of Crime: A Genealogy"
1995 University of Melbourne, Department of Criminology, "Crime & Public Policy"; "Redefining 'Justice': A
Feminist Critique of Aristotle"; and "Gender and Biological Theories of Crime"
1995 University of Melbourne, Geography Department, "Space, Gender and Social Control"
1995 University of Melbourne, School of Graduate Studies, "Crime, Women & Society"
1995 University of New South Wales, Law School, "Biological Theories of Crime: A Constructionist History"
1995 University of Sydney, Faculty of Law, "A History of the Criminal Body"
1994 University of Georgia, Dept. of Sociology: "Reconceptualizing Justice"
1993 Massachusetts Committee on Criminal Justice, Conference on Sexual Assault, "Naming"
1993 Cardiff, British Criminology Conference, "Mobbing"
1992 University of Georgia Conference on Inequality and Social Control, "Eugenics, Class, and the
Professionalization of Social Control"
1991 Washington, D.C., Federal Bureau of Prisons, Forum on Issues in Corrections, Female Offenders, "Equal
Treatment or Different Treatment The Origins of Today's Policy Dilemma in the Care of Incarcerated
Women"
1991 International Feminist Conference on Women, Law, and Social Control, "Women, the Women's
Movement, and Feminism in South Africa: Comments on Papers"
1990 Boston College Law School, Gender Bias and the Law Conference, "Women in Prison"
1990 Boston Area Medical Sociologists, "The Eugenic Family Studies"
1998 St. Louis, National Lawyers Guild "Crime and the Family"
1987 Nag's Head Conference on The American Prison, "Gender and Justice
1987 California Association for Criminal Justice Research, "Female Juvenile Delinquency"
1985 Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, "Gender, Prisons, and Prison History"
1985 University of Toronto, Centre of Criminology, "Women's Prisons, Sex Discrimination, and Prospects for
Change"
1984 University of Southern Maine, Department of Sociology, "Women, 'Liberation,' and Crime"
1983 Brown University, "Chastising the Unchaste"
1981 Northeastern University, Scholarship Day Speaker, "The Women's Prison System"
1979 Boston, Sociologists for Women in Society, "Sociological Aspects of Female Criminality and Punishment"