It’s Episode 74 of The Criminology Academy podcast! On today’s episode, we have Professor Janet Lauritsen who speaks with us about her career as a criminologist, her work on victimization, and her thoughts on the field!
Janet Lauritsen is Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri -St. Louis. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of victimization, the social and historical contexts of crime and victimization, and quantitative research methodologies and data. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the National Institute of Justice. Dr. Lauritsen served as Chair of the Panel on Modernizing the Nation’s Crime Statistics for the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences. In 2013, she was named Fellow of the American Society of Criminology. She served as Co-Editor of the flagship journal Criminology from 2018-2020, and as President of the American Society of Criminology in 2022.
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Get in touch with Janet:
University of Missouri – St. Louis Website // janet_lauritsen AT umsl.edu
This is the article authored by Janet and her colleague that was discussed in this episode of The Crim Academy:
Lauritsen, J. L., & Rezey, M. L. (2018). Victimization trends and correlates: Macro-and microinfluences and new directions for research. Annual Review of Criminology, 1, 103-121. [Article Link].