Lisa Broidy

Lisa Broidy is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. She serves as Co-editor of the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency and holds an office in SSCI 1055. Her research focuses on gender’s role in crime, structural processes, and the application of General Strain Theory and Developmental/Life Course Theories to understand female offending pathways, domestic violence, and incarceration impacts.

Education: Ph.D. in Sociology from Washington State University (1997).

Research Interests: Gender and crime dynamics, criminological theory, collateral consequences of incarceration, female offending trajectories, and cross-national studies on violence and social control. Her work emphasizes policy implications for criminal justice systems, particularly regarding maternal stigma and marginalized populations.

Recent articles highlight themes of gendered offending patterns, mental health intersections, and ICT’s impact on gender norms in Pakistan and Nepal. She collaborates on international projects analyzing Indigenous populations and birth cohorts’ offending trajectories.

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Labs/Teams: No specific labs or teams are mentioned, though her work engages interdisciplinary collaborations in criminology and sociology.