KTCH 159
Spring 2024 Office Hours:聽Monday and Wednesday 11am-12pm and by appointment
Biography
Jillian Turanovic is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and a fellow in the Institute of Behavioral Science. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of victimization, violence, the life-course, and incarceration. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Justice, the Office for Victims of Crime, and Arnold Ventures. She is the author of聽Thinking about Victimization: Context and Consequences聽(Routledge, 2023),聽Confronting School Violence: A Synthesis of Six Decades of Research聽(Cambridge University Press, 2022), and聽Revitalizing Victimization Theory: Revisions, Applications, and New Directions聽(Routledge, 2021). In 2019 she received the Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology. Her current research examines issues of trauma and well-being, school victimization, firearm violence, and prisons. She received her Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Arizona State University in 2015.