Jennifer Lynne Skeem is an American psychologist and the Mack Distinguished Professor in the

UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare The School of Social Welfare of the University of California, Berkeley, was established June 1, 1944 and is located in Haviland Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. Its focus is to prepare graduates to become agents of social change through direct prac ...

, where she is also the Associate Dean of Research. She is also a professor at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

Goldman School of Public Policy The Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, or the Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP), is a public policy school and one of fourteen schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. Originally named the Graduate Sch ...

. Her research focuses on

criminal justice Criminal justice is the delivery of justice to those who have been accused of committing crimes. The criminal justice system is a series of government agencies and institutions. Goals include the rehabilitation of offenders, preventing other ...

and

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, including how to improve the ways that the criminal justice system treats people with

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. From 2013 to 2014, she was the president of the American Psychology-Law Society. Since 2013, she has been a fellow of the

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at the Goldman School of Public Policy * Living people American women psychologists 21st-century American psychologists Forensic psychologists University of Utah alumni University of California, Berkeley School of Social Welfare faculty Goldman School of Public Policy faculty Fellows of the Association for Psychological Science Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women {{US-psychologist-stub