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Valerie Jenness
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Valerie Jenness (born March 7, 1963) is an author, researcher, public policy Valerie Jenness
advisor, and professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and
in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).
Jenness is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology at the
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and prior to that, was a Senior
Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the
University of Michigan. Jenness served as Dean of the School of Social
Ecology from 2009 to 2015 and Chair of the Department of Criminology, Law
and Society from 2001-2006. Jenness is credited with conducting the first
systemic study of transgender women in men's prisons.

Contents
1 Academic life
2 Contributions to public policy
3 Research funding
4 Awards and recognition
5 Publications Professor Valerie Jenness
6 Selected published works
Born March 7, 1963
7 References
8 External links Education University of California, Santa
Barbara (Ph.D.)
University of California, Santa

Academic life Barbara (M.A.)

Central Washington University
In 1991, Jenness received her doctoral (B.S.)
degree from UCSB and began
Occupation Professor, Author, Researcher
teaching as an Assistant Professor at
Washington State University from Employer University of California
1991-1997. During that time, she
served the Department of Sociology, Notable "Appealing to Justice
the Criminal Justice Program and the work Making Hate a Crime
American Studies Program. In 1997, Hate Crimes"
Jenness when she began teaching as Making it Work
Valerie Jenness presenting with
an Assistant Professor in Women's "Routing the Opposition"
Magic Johnson Studies at UCI. While serving as Dean,
Jenness has continued to teach both Awards Excellence in Undergraduate
undergraduate and graduate courses. She has received multiple teaching Education Award
awards as well as other forms of recognition for her contributions to teaching. Presidents Award, Article
Award
Jenness research primarily focuses on the links between deviance and social
control (especially law); the politics of crime control and criminalization; social Public Understanding of
movements and social change; and the public policy surrounding the Sociology Award
corrections system. Courses taught by Jenness include: Introduction to Joseph B. Gittler Award
Criminology, Law and Society, Hate Crimes, Deviance and Violence Against Chancellors Award for
Sexual and Gender Minorities. Drawing on multiple theoretical perspectives, Excellence in Fostering
from social constructionism to new institutionalism, she has employed a variety Undergraduate Research
of quantitate and qualitative research methods to contribute to our
understandings of crime response.

Contributions to public policy

Early in her career (1999), Jenness gave a press conference at the American Sociological Association (ASA) meetings in
Chicago with two other researchers. In this presentation, she summarized the current state of social science knowledge on
the subject of hate crime and hate crime law for the national media. Later that year, Jenness appeared before members and
the subject of hate crime and hate crime law for the national media. Later that year, Jenness appeared before members and
staff of the United States Congress to deliver a presentation at the United States Congressional Briefing and Seminar on
"Hate Crime in America." The presentation was subsequently published in Hate Crime in America: What Do We Know?
the ASA as part of the Issue Series in Social Research and Social Policy.

Jenness has used her research and findings to not only publish studies, but develop innovative educational materials for
public policy officials. Her contributions have been recognized by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
(CDCR), the Los Angeles Police Department and the United States Department of Homeland Security. Many agencies
have referred to Jenness research in the forming of their own policy, including the United States Congress and the National
Academy of Sciences.

Jenness also provided analysis and advice on bills in the California State Senate sponsored by then Senators Deborah Ortiz
Tom Hayden and Sheila Kuehl. In 2004, Jenness provided an assessment of The Omnibus Hate Crime Bill of 2004
(California Senate Bill 1234) to the legislative staff on the California State Senate Committee on Public Safety. The bill was
designed to overhaul California's hate crime laws. In September 2004, the bill was enacted into law by Governor
Schwarzenegger.

Shortly after her work on the Omnibus Hate Crime Bill, Jenness served as a consultant to the California Commission on
Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST). Her task was working with law enforcement officials to redesign curriculum
and produce instructional videos for training police officers. Presently, these videos are part of the official police training
curriculum in the State of California.

During Governor Schwarzenegger's term, Jenness was appointed to the Rehabilitation Strike Team to facilitate the
implementation of California Assembly Bill 900, also known as the Public Safety and Offender Rehabilitation Services Act of
2007. This Strike Team was charged with working collaboratively with the CDCR to implement a set of sweeping reforms
designed to improve rehabilitation services, grow entry opportunities and reduce prison overcrowding in California.

Research funding
National Academy of Sciences
National Science Foundation
National Institute of Justice
California Policy Research Center
California Department of Mental Health
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
University of California
Washington State University

Awards and recognition

2014-2015 Presidents Award from the Western Society of Criminology
2014 Excellence in Undergraduate Education Award from University of California, Irvine
"2013 Article Award" from the Law and Society Association
"2010 Public Understanding of Sociology Award" from American Sociologist Association
"2008 Joseph B. Gittler Award" from Society for the Study of Social Problems
2006 Chancellors Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research from University of California, Irvine
Most Inspirational Instructor from Washington State University
American Society of Criminology
Gustavus Myers Center for the Sudy of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America

Other less notable recognitions from the University of California include: Professor of the Month, Interesting Professor We
Would Like to Meet Outside the Classroom and UCI faculty member who has had the greatest impact on a students
education.

Publications
Jenness has authored and co-authored five books, including:

Appealing to Justice: Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic (ISBN 978-0520284173). University of
 California: 2014.
Making Hate a Crime: From Social Movement to Law Enforcement Practice (ISBN 978-0871544100). Russell Sage
Foundation: 2004.
Hate Crimes: New Social Movements and the Politics of Violence (ISBN 978-0202306025). Aldine Transaction: 1997
Making it Work: The Prostitutes' Rights Movement in Perspective (ISBN 978-0202304649) Aldine Transaction: 1993
Routing the Opposition: Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy (ISBN 978-0816644803) University of
Minnesota Press: 2005

Selected published works

Sexton, Lori and Valerie Jenness. In Press. "'We're Like Community': The Social Allocation of Collective Identity and
Collective Identity Among Transgender Women in Prisons for Men." Punishment & Society.
Jenness, Valerie and Sarah Fenstermaker. 2016. "Forty Years After Brownmiller: Prisons for Men, Transgender
Inmates, and the Rape of the Feminine." Gender & Society 30(1):14-29.
Calavita, Kittty and Valerie Jennness. 2015. Appealing to Justice: Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic.
Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
Jenness, Valerie and Sarah Fenstermaker. 2014. "Agnes Goes to Prison: Gender Authenticity, Transgender Inmates in
Prisons for Men, and the Pursuit of 'The Real Deal'". Gender & Society 28(1)1:5-31.
Jenness, Valerie. 2014. "Pesticides, Prisoners, and Policy: Complexity and Praxis in Resesarch on Transgender
Prisoners and Beyond". Sociological Perspectives 57(1):6-26.
Calavita, Kitty and Valerie Jenness. 2013. "Inside the Pyramid of Disputes: Naming Problems and Filing Grievances in
California Prisons." Social Problems 60(1):50-80.
Jenness, Valerie and Ryken Grattet. 2012. "Hate Crime Law, Policy, and Law Enforcement in California: The
Presence, Content, and Consequences of the Law-in-Between." A special issue of Poinikii Dikaiosini (Penal Justice)
devoted to Eglimatologia (Criminology). Athens, Greece: Nomiki Vivliothiki (Legal Library).
Jenness, Valerie and Michael Smyth. 2011. The Passage and Implementation of the Prison Rape Elimination Act:
Legal Endogeneity and the Uncertain Road from Symbolic Law to Instrumental Effects. Stanford Law & Policy Review
22(2): 489-528.
Jenness, Valerie. 2011. "Getting to Know 'The Girls' in an 'Alpha-Male' Community: Notes on Fieldwork on
Transgender Inmates in California Prisons." In Sociologists Backstage: Answers to 10 Questions About What They Do,
edited by Sarah Fenstermaker and Nikki Jones. New York: Routledge Press.
Jenness, Valerie. 2010. "From Policy to Prisoners to People: A 'Soft-Mixed Methods' Approach to Studying
Transgender Prisoners." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 39(5): 517-553.
Sexton, Lori A., Valerie Jenness, and Jennifer Macy Sumner. 2010. "Where the Margins Meet: A Demographic
Assessment of Transgender Inmates in Men's Prisons." Justice Quarterly.27(6):835-860.
Jenness, Valerie, Cheryl L. Maxson, Jennifer Macy Sumner, and Kristy N. Matsuda. 2010. "Accomplishing the Difficult,
But Not Impossible: Collecting Self-Report Data on Inmate-on-Inmate Sexual Assault in Prison." Criminal Justice Policy
Review 21(1):3-30.
Jenness, Valerie. 2009. "From Symbolic Law to Criminal Justice Practice: Hate Crime Policy, Policing, and
Prosecution." In Handbook on Crime and Public Policy, edited by Michael Tonry. New York: Oxford University Press.
Grattet, Ryken and Valerie Jenness. 2008. "Transforming Symbolic Law into Organizational Action: Hate Crime Policy
and Law Enforcement Practice." Social Forces 87(1):501-528.
Jenness, Valerie. 2008. "Pluto, Prisons, and Plaintiffs: Notes on Systematic Back Translation from an Embedded
Researcher.'" Social Problems 55:1-22.
Jenness, Valerie. 2007. "The Emergence, Content, and Institutionalization of Hate Crime Law: How a Diverse Policy
Community a Produced a Modern Legal Fact." Annual Review of Law and Social Science 3:141-160.
Grattet, Ryken and Valerie Jenness. 2005. "The Reconstitution of Law in Local Settings: Agency Discretion, Ambiguity,
and a Surplus of Law in the Policing of Hate Crime." Law & Society Review 39:893-941.
Jenness, Valerie and Ryken Grattet. 2005. "The Law-In-Between: The Effects of Organizational Perviousness on the
Policing of Hate Crime." Social Problems 52:337-359.
Jenness, Valerie. 2004. "Explaining Criminalization: From Demography and Status Politics to Globalization and
Modernization." Annual Review of Sociology 30:141-171

References
References
1. Jenness, Valerie. "From Policy to Prisoners to People: A "Soft Mixed Methods" Approach to Studying Transgender Prisoners".
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.
2. "ASA Holds Congressional Briefing on Hate Crimes". Retrieved 8 March 2016.
3. Jenness, Valerie (1999). "Hate Crime in America: What Do We Know?". Issue Series in Social Research and Social Policy.
4. Presentation to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (PDF). Retrieved 8 March 2016.
5. "LAPD hosts the LGBTQ Community Forum". Los Angeles Police Department. November 2011. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
6. "University of California Faculty Biography". Retrieved 8 March 2016.
7. "President's Award from the Western Society of Criminology". Retrieved 8 March 2016.
8. "Excellence in Undergraduate Education Award". Retrieved 8 March 2016.
9. "Law and Society Association Article Award". Retrieved 8 March 2016.
10. "Public Understanding of Sociology Award". Retrieved 8 March 2016.
11. "Joseph B. Gittler Award". Retrieved 8 March 2016.
12. "Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research". Retrieved 8 March 2016.

External links
Valerie Jenness Website

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Categories:
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1963 births
Living people
University of California, Santa Barbara alumni
Central Washington University alumni

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