Creasie Finney Hairston

Creasie Finney Hairston is Professor and Dean of the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Director of the Jane Addams Center for Social Policy and Research, and Editor of The Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. Dr. Hairston has developed family programs for correctional populations, conducted research, and written extensively on the impact of incarceration on children and families. Her most recent publications examine women’s views of men’s incarceration, public policies and fathers in prison, and kinship care when parents are incarcerated.