Title:  Associate Professor

Criminology, Law, and Justice Office: BSB 4060C

Criminology, Law, and Justice Phone: (312) 996-8844

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Joint Appointments: Department of Sociology; Gender and Women’s Studies Program

Office: 4160C Behavioral Sciences Building

Phone: (312) 996-8844

Recent Courses:

• Criminology, Law, and Justice 220/Soc 231: Criminology
• Criminology, Law, and Justice 421: Juvenile Justice System
  
• Criminology, Law, and Justice 547/GWS 547: Race, Class, Gender, and Justice
• Criminology, Law, and Justice 561: Qualitative Research Methodology
  

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Bio:  Laurie Schaffner (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 2000) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a 2006-2007 Visiting Faculty at the American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL. Her research features critical perspectives of youth in trouble with the law, with an emphasis on noticing sociological and political responses by the juvenile corrections systems, both legal and psychiatric. Drawing upon research using interviews, ethnography, cultural documents, and secondary national data, Dr. Schaffner examines shifts in the constitution of trouble for girls as compared with boys in the legal system, other adolescent girls, and young women a century ago. Her monograph, Girls in Trouble with the Law, Rutgers University Press (2006) critiques orthodox delinquency theories by uncovering ways in which contemporary youth are punished for the transgressing mainstream gender norms. This research, focusing on young women in their lives in their urban neighborhoods, argues that gender-responsive programs and policies must challenge conventional adolescent stereotypes. Her other books include Teenage Runaways (Haworth Press, 1999) and the co-edited anthology, Regulating Sex: The Politics of Intimacy and Identity (Routledge Press, 2005). Her work has earned awards from the American Sociology Association, the Society for Applied Anthropology, and the American Society of Criminology.