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Candace Kruttschnitt
- B.A. (California), MA., M.Phil., Ph.D. (Yale)
- Professor of Sociology and Criminology
Recent and forthcoming publications:
- Kruttschnitt, Candace and Anja Dirkzwager (forthcoming). "Are there still Contrasts in Tolerance? Imprisonment in the Netherlands and England 20 years later." Punishment and Society.
- Candace Kruttschnitt (forthcoming). "Women's Prisons." Oxford Handbook of Crime and Criminal Justice ed. by Michael Tonry. Oxford University Press.
- Carbone-Lopez, Kristin and Candace Kruttschnitt (2010). "Risky relationships? Assortative mating and women's experiences of intimate partner violence." Crime and Delinquency 56(3): 358-384.
- Kruttschnitt, Candace (2010). "the paradox of women's imprisonment." Daedalus 139(3) Summer: 32-42.
Ongoing & Future Research
Candace Kruttschnitt is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She has published extensively on the subject of female offending and victimization. Her recent books include Marking Time in the Golden State: Women's Imprisonment in California (with Rosemary Gartner, Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Gender and Crime: Patterns in Victimization and Offending (with Karen Heimer, New York University Press, 2006). Her current research focuses on the effects of confinement on offenders in different political and cultural contexts (the U.S., Britain and the Netherlands).
