Cassia Spohn

Cassia Spohn is an American criminologist and Foundation Professor at Arizona State University, where she directs the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Her research across more than a hundred published papers examines the effect of race and sex on federal sentencing, the deterrent effect of imprisonment and how the justice system processes sexual assault cases, and her work on rape law was cited by the United States Supreme Court in the 1987 case McCleskey v. Kemp. She spent nearly three decades at the University of Nebraska Omaha before joining Arizona State in 2006 and has served as editor in chief of the journal Justice Quarterly.