Cassia Cathleen Spohn is a Foundation Professor at

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, where she is also the director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Education

Spohn attended the

University of Nebraska-Lincoln A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Uni ...

, where she received her B.A. in journalism and political science in 1973, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in political science in 1975 and 1978, respectively.

Career

Spohn joined the faculty of the

University of Nebraska at Omaha The University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) is a public university, public research university in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Founded in 1908 by faculty from the Presbyterian Theological Seminary (Omaha, Nebraska), Omaha Presbyterian Theological ...

in 1978 as an assistant professor in the Goodrich Scholarship Program. In 1987, she was appointed a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice there, a position she held until joining Arizona State University in 2006. From 2005 to 2006, she served as the chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. In 2011, she became a Foundation Professor at Arizona State University.

Research

Spohn has published over 100 papers on various subjects in the field of criminal justice, including the effects of race and sex on federal sentencing decisions, the deterrent effect of prison, and the processing of sexual assault cases. In 1987, the

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cited her research in the landmark

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case '' McCleskey v. Kemp''.

Honors and awards

In 1985, Spohn became a Graduate College Faculty Fellow at the University of Nebraska. In 2013, she received the Faculty Achievement Award for Defining Edge Research in Social Sciences from Arizona State University.

Editorial activities

In 2011, Spohn became the

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of ''

Justice Quarterly ''Justice Quarterly'' is a quarterly academic journal covering criminology and criminal justice. It was established in 1982 and is published by Routledge on behalf of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, of which it is an official journal. Th ...

''.

References

External links

Faculty page
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Spohn, Cassia Cathleen Living people American criminologists Arizona State University faculty University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni American academic journal editors University of Nebraska Omaha faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) American women criminologists