Jeanne Flavin

Jeanne Flavin is the author of the award-winning book, Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America (NYU Press, 2009) and more than two dozen other scholarly publications. Jeanne serves on the board of directors of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, a reproductive justice organization which defends the rights of pregnant and parenting women, particularly those whose race, poverty, drug use, or mental health makes them vulnerable to arrest and prosecution. She is the recipient of a 2009 Fulbright research award and the 2013 Sociologists for Women in Society Feminist Activism Award.

Research interests

• Criminal justice
• reproductive justice
• feminist criminology