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Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, Sociology, and Nursing Science

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Valerie Jenness Discusses Gender Sexuality

Valerie Jenness Discusses Gender Sexuality Gender and Sexuality as Methodological Confounds in the Study of Transgender Prisoners.   Abstract Valerie Jenness discusses gender sexuality: In the summer of 2007, Alexis Giraldo, a transgender parolee who served over...

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Studying Social Ecology and Criminology at UC Irvine

Criminology is a scientific study of crime, criminal behavior, criminals, and corrections. It studies the prevention of crimes as well as society's response to violent crimes. It traverses the examination of evidence, psychological causes of crime, conviction and...

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Making Hate A Crime: Valerie Jenness

Making Hate A Crime: From Social Movement to Law Enforcement by Valerie Jenness      Making Hate a Crime is the first book to trace the emergence and development of hate crime as a concept, illustrating how it has become institutionalized as a social fact...

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Transgender Prisoners In The Us Prison System

Transgender Prisoners In The Us Prison System   Prison, jail and even dealings with law enforcement personnel can be an upsetting experience for most people. And living in a country with one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, US citizens are more...

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