Candace Kruttschnitt

Candace Kruttschnitt is a sociologist and criminologist who is professor at the University of Toronto after earlier holding a faculty position at the University of Minnesota. She served as president of the American Society of Criminology in 2015, and her research centers on female offending and comparative penology, including a study that collected retrospective data from more than eight hundred incarcerated women across Baltimore, Toronto and Minneapolis. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and co-author of Marking Time in the Golden State: Women's Imprisonment in California.