Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, Sociology, and Nursing Science
Valerie Jenness is an author, researcher, public policy advisor, and professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).
Jenness was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and prior to that was a Senior Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan.
Jenness served as Dean of the School of Social Ecology from 2009 to 2015 and Chair of the Department of Criminology, Law and Society from 2001-2006. Jenness is credited with conducting the path-breaking work on the prostitutes’ rights movement, hate crime, sexual assault in prison, transgender women in prisons for men, and grievance systems in prisons.
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Appealing to Justice
Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic
Routing the Opposition
Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy
Making Hate A Crime
From Social Movement to Law Enforcement
Making it Work
The Prostitutes’ Rights Movement in Perspective
Hate Crimes
New Social Movements and the Politics of Violence
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