Kitty Calavita

Kitty C. Calavita is an American criminologist specializing in the sociology of law, criminology, immigration, criminal justice and inequality, holding the position of Chancellor's Professor Emerita at the University of California, Irvine, and an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Her scholarship spans five books examining topics including Mexican labor programs, financial fraud, immigrant exploitation, law and society theory, and prison conditions. She has also been active in policy reform, chairing Berkeley's Police Review Commission beginning in 2017 and later serving on its Police Accountability Board until her resignation in January 2026. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/