Joan Petersilia
Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Joan Petersilia and Jessica Greenlick Snyder, Looking Past The Hype: 10 Questions Everyone Should Ask About California's Prison Realignment, 5 California Journal of Politics and Policy 266 (2013).
Joan Petersilia and Robert Weisberg, Viewpoints: Inmate Realignment Can Succeed, But It May Take More Time, Sacramento Bee, March 30, 2013, p.9A.
Linda Penner and Joan Petersilia, Viewpoints: Realignment Doesn't Lead to Early Release, Sacramento Bee, October 15, 2012, p. 15A.
Jeffrey Lin, Ryken Grattet, and Joan Petersilia, Justice by Other Means: Venue Sorting in Parole Revocation, 34 Law and Policy 349 (2012).
Joan Petersilia and Kevin R. Reitz, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Sentencing and Corrections, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Joan Petersilia, Remembering James Q. Wilson, The Crime Report, March 19, 2012.
Joan Petersilia, Joan Turner, Implementing Rehabilitation Principles to Promote Prisoner Re-entry, in Using Social Science to Reduce Violent Offending, Joel Dvoskin, Jennifer Skeem, Ray Novaco, and Kevin Douglas, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Susan Turner and Joan Petersilia, Putting Science to Work: How the Principles of Risk, Need, and Responsivity Apply to Reentry in Using Social Science to Reduce Violent Offending, Joel A. Dvoskin, Jennifer L. Skeem, Raymond W. Novaco, and Kevin S. Douglas (editors), New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, c2012.
Joan Petersilia, Parole and Prisoner Re-entry, in The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Criminal Justice, Michael Tonry, editor, Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Joan Petersilia, Moving Felons From Prison To Jail Is Smart Move, San Francisco Chronicle, April 28, 2011, p. A-10.
Ryken Grattet, Jeffrey Lin, and Joan Petersilia, Supervision Regimes and Parolee Deviance: Official Reactions to Parole Violations in California, 49 Criminology 371 (2011).
Joan Petersilia, Community Corrections: Probation, Parole, and Prisoner Reentry, in Crime and Public Policy, James Q. Wilson & Joan Petersilia (editors), New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
James Q. Wilson & Joan Petersilia (editors), Crime and Public Policy, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Joan Petersilia, Beyond the Prison Bubble, 35 Wilson Quarterly 52 (2011) (reprinted in NIJ Journal, Issue 268, October 2011).
Jeffrey Lin, Ryken Grattet and Joan Petersilia, Back-end Sentencing and Reimprisonment: Individual, Organizational, and Community Predictors of Parole Sanctioning Decisions, 48 Criminology 759 (2010).
Joan Petersilia and Robert Weisberg, The Dangers of Pyrrhic Victories Against Mass Incarceration, 130 Daedelus 124 (2010).
Joan Petersilia, A Retrospective View of Corrections Reform in the Schwarzenegger Administration, 22 Federal Sentencing Reporter 148 (2010).
John Hipp, Susan Turner, and Joan Petersilia, Parolee Recidivism in California: The Effect of Neighborhood Context and Social Service Agency Characteristics, 48 Criminology 947 (2010).
Joan Petersilia, Ryken Grattet, Jeffrey Lin, and Marlene Beckman, Assessing Parole Violations and Revocations in California: Finding Strategies for the Future, 33 APPA Perspectives 42 (2009).
Joan Petersilia, Ryken Grattet, Jeffrey Lin, and Marlene Beckman, Parole Violations and Revocations in California: Analysis and Suggestions for Action, 73 Federal Probation 2 (June 2009).

petersilia@law.stanford.edu

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Curriculum Vitae

Education:

BA (Sociology) Loyola University of Los Angeles (1972)
MA (Sociology) The Ohio State University (1974)
PhD (Criminology Law & Society) University of California Irvine (1990)

Expertise:

Crime Victims
Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
Criminal Sentencing
Developmental Disabilities and the Justice System
Juvenile Justice
Law and Society
Policy Analysis
Probation and Parole
Public Policy and Empirical Studies
Race and the Law