Author Biography
ROSANN GREENSPAN has served as the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley, since 2005. Before that, she was Associate Director and Acting Assistant Director. She has also taught in Berkeley's Legal Studies Program. She earned a B.A. magna cum laude from Yale College, an M.A. from the Centre of Criminology at the University of Toronto, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Berkeley's Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program. She was the Postdoctoral Fellow in Law and Politics at Stanford and a U.S. Supreme Court Fellow, as well as Research Director of the Police Foundation in Washington, DC. She is Co-editor of the section on law of the International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2d Ed. (fthcg. 2014), and received the 2014 Western Society of Criminology Fellows Award for important contributions in criminology.