Joan Petersilia

Joan Ramme Petersilia (1951-2019) was an American criminologist who served as the Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and faculty co-director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center. She researched prisoner reentry, the process of reintegrating released offenders into society, for over three decades, and she and Daniel Nagin jointly received the 2014 Stockholm Prize in Criminology for their research into prisoner reentry and rehabilitation. She began her career at the RAND Corporation in 1974, remaining until 1994, then joined the University of California, Irvine, as a professor of criminology, law and society in 1992, founding its Center on Evidence-Based Corrections in 2005 before moving to Stanford Law School in 2009, where she was also a founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Criminology. She served as president of the American Society of Criminology and received its Vollmer Award, and died September 23, 2019, of ovarian cancer at age 68. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/