Jill McCorkel

Jill McCorkel, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Villanova University and the founding director of the Philadelphia Justice Project for Women and Girls. Dr. McCorkel is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and chapters on prisons and punishment, drug policy, and American criminal law. Her critically acclaimed book, Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment (New York University Press), is the only behind-the-walls ethnographic study of an American women's prison during the height of the drug war.