Understanding Graduate Student Experiences in Criminal Justice & Criminology Programs
Elaine Gunnison Department of Criminal Justice, Criminology & Forensics, Seattle University, Seattle, WA, USAElaine Gunnison is a Professor and Graduate Director in the Department of Criminal Justice, Criminology & Forensics at Seattle University. Her research specializations include life course criminology, female offending and corrections. Her research interests are in the areas of understanding female offending patterns such as desistance and persistence, the applicability of criminological theory to females, and offender reentry. She also has explored pedagogy in the classroom and researchers’ experiences with IRBs as well as the role of Graduate Directors and graduate students’ experiences in Criminal Justice and Criminology programs. She has coauthored books such as Women Leading Justice: Experience and Insights (2019; Routledge), Women, Crime, and Justice: Balancing the Scales (2017; Wiley-Blackwell), and Offender Reentry: Beyond Crime and Punishment (2013; Lynne Rienner). Her research has been published in various outlets including Crime and Delinquency, Federal Probation, Journal of Community Corrections, Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, the Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology, Women and Criminal Justice, the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, and the Journal of Prison Education and Reentry.