Joanne Belknap

Joanne Elizabeth Belknap is a U.S. criminologist and Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder (UC-Boulder). Joanne Belknap received a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University in 1986. She is a Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado and Past-President of the American Society of Criminology. She is also an adjunct professor on the faculty of law at Queensland University of Technology, School of Justice, in Brisbane, Australia. Her research is primarily on gender-based abuse and the trajectory of trauma to offending among women and youth, and the intersections of marginalization and oppression, and social justice. Dr. Belknap published the fourth edition of her book, The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and Justice, in 2015. She has secured almost two million dollars in research grant money, has served on state advisory boards for female offenders and women in prison, on U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno's Violence Against Women Committee, gave expert testimony to the Warren Christopher Commission investigating the Rodney King police brutality incident in Los Angeles, and served as a pro bono advisor on criminal justice policy for the Obama presidential campaign. Dr. Belknap has won numerous research, teaching and service awards. Her most recent research work is on jail-to-community reentry^[1] and implementing college courses in prisons after being trained by the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program .^[2][3]

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• Joanne Belknap publications indexed by Google Scholar