Natalie J. Sokoloff

Natalie J. Sokoloff, Professor of Sociology, has been a member of the faculty of John Jay College of Criminal Justice for 35 years. She is also a member of the doctoral faculties in Sociology, Criminology, and Women’s Studies at the Graduate School, City University of New York. She teaches courses on women, crime, and justice; imprisonment and empowerment; and domestic violence. In 2005 she was doubly honored with the Outstanding Teacher Award at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division on Women and Crime. Also, in 2006-07 she was granted a John Jay College Scholarly Excellence Award. Professor Sokoloff’s two latest books are The Criminal Justice System and Women, 3rd Ed. (co-editor, McGraw-Hill, 2004; 2nd Ed., 1995; 1st Ed.: Clark Boardman, Ltd., 1982) and Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings on Race, Class, Gender and Culture (co-editor, Rutgers University Press, 2005). Her earlier publications include: Between Money and Love: The Dialectics of Women’s Home and Market Work (Praeger, 1980; translated into Japanese, 1987); The Hidden Aspects of Women’s Work (co-editor, Praeger, 1987); Black Women and White Women in the Professions: Occupational Segregation by Race and Gender, 1960-1980 (Routledge, Chapman, Hall, 1992). Professor Sokoloff has published widely in many journals and edited volumes. Multicultural Perspectives on Domestic Violence: A Bibliography, is free and available online. Her current research is on domestic violence in immigrant communities in Baltimore, MD. She is on the Board of Directors of the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women’s College Program; Alternative Directions, Inc., a prisoner re-entry program for women returning to their communities from prison; and the National Research Committee for Inside/Out, a college program that brings traditional college classes into prisons where students from these two communities learn in direct interaction with each other.