JillianÌýTuranovic
- Associate Professor
Biography
Jillian Turanovic is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and a fellow in the Institute of Behavioral Science. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of victimization, violence, the life-course, and incarceration. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Justice, the Office for Victims of Crime, and Arnold Ventures. She is the author ofÌýThinking about Victimization: Context and ConsequencesÌý(Routledge, 2023),ÌýConfronting School Violence: A Synthesis of Six Decades of ResearchÌý(Cambridge University Press, 2022), andÌýRevitalizing Victimization Theory: Revisions, Applications, and New DirectionsÌý(Routledge, 2021). In 2019 she received the Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology. Her current research examines issues of trauma and well-being, school victimization, firearm violence, and prisons. She received her Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Arizona State University in 2015.