Joan Petersilia
Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Joan Petersilia, Influencing Public Policy: An Embedded Criminologist Reflects on California Prison Reform, 4 Journal of Experimental Criminology 335 (2008).
Joan Petersilia, California's Correctional Paradox of Excess and Deprivation, in Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, Michael Tonry, ed., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Joan Petersilia, Richard Rosenfeld, et. al., Parole, Desistance from Crime, and Community Integration, Washington, DC: National Academies Press (Committee on Community Supervision and Desistance from Crime), 2007.
Joan Petersilia and Robert Weisberg. Slammer Time - Why Rush To Build More Prisons When Other Options Cost Less?, Sacramento Bee, July 23, 2006, Forum section, page E2.
Joan Petersilia, Understanding California Corrections (CPRC Policy Research Program Report), Berkeley, CA: California Policy Research Center, 2006.
Joan Petersilia and Robert Weisberg. Parole in California: It’s a Crime, Los Angeles Times, April 23, 2006, p. M2.
Joan Petersilia and James Q. Wilson, Crime: Public Policies for Crime Control, San Francisco: ICS Press, 2004.
Joan Petersilia, When Prisoners Return to the Community: Political, Economic, and Social Consequences, Sentencing & Corrections Issues for the 21st Century, November 2000.
Joan Petersilia, Community Corrections: Probation, Parole, and Intermediate Sanctions, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Peter W. Greenwood and Joan Petersilia, The Criminal Investigation Process: Volume 1: Summary and Policy Recommendations, in What Works in Policing, edited by David H. Bayley, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Joan Petersilia and Peter W. Greenwood, Mandatory Prison Sentences: Their Projected Effects on Crime and Prison Populations, Santa Monica, Calif.: Rand Corporation, 1977.

petersilia@law.stanford.edu

650 723-4740

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