Disrupted Childhoods: Children of Women in Prison

About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR JANE A. SIEGEL, Ph.D., is associate professor of criminal justice and chair of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. She is also an associate at the Rutgers University Center for Children and Childhood Studies in Camden and an affiliate of the Center for Behavioral Health Services and Criminal Justice Research at Rutgers in New Brunswick. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in criminology from the University of Pennsylvania, and her B.A. at Drew University. She has been principal investigator and coprincipal investigator on several federally funded studies focused on topics such as child abuse, the effect of parental incarceration on children, and risk factors for victimization, and has published numerous articles on these topics. In addition to her academic work, the author is actively involved in community organizations that reflect her research interests, serving as a board member for an alternative-to-incarceration program for female offenders, as an advisory committee member for a program for female jail inmates who are pregnant or mothers of young children, and as a member of a multiagency working group to enhance services to incarcerated women. Theauthor.qxd 4/20/11 10:15 AM Page 1 ...