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Janet Lauritsen

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Janet Lynn Lauritsen
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Awards2010 Claude S. Fischer Award for Excellence from the American Sociological Association, fellow of the American Society of Criminology since 2013
Scientific career
FieldsCriminology
InstitutionsUniversity of Missouri-St. Louis
ThesisAdolescent sexual behavior and early childbearing: Empirical tests of social control and strain theories (1989)

Janet Lynn Lauritsen is an American criminologist and the Curators' Distinguished Professor Emerita of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.

Education and career

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Lauritsen served as the executive counselor of the American Society of Criminology from 2004 to 2007.[1][2] In 2022, she was elected president of the American Society of Criminology. [1][3] She served as the co-editor of the journal Criminology (2016–2021)[4][1][5] as well as serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology (1994–2016).[1]

Honors and awards

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Lauritsen was named a fellow of the American Society of Criminology in 2013.[6][7][8][1] Having retired, she now a Curators' Distinguished Professor Emerita of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Janet L. Lauritsen Faculty page". umsl.edu.
  2. ^ "ASC Fellow Recipients, 2013 American Society of Criminology Award Recipients, The Criminologist, Vol. 38, No. 4, July/August 2013 (page 22)" (PDF). asc41.com.
  3. ^ "Officers".
  4. ^ "Criminology Editorial Board". wiley.com.
  5. ^ "Janet L. Lauritsen, Faculty Biography". umsl.edu.
  6. ^ "ASC Fellow Recipients, 2013 American Society of Criminology Award Recipients, The Criminologist, Vol. 38, No. 4, July/August 2013 (page 22)" (PDF). asc41.com.
  7. ^ "ASC Fellows, American Society of Criminology". asc41.com. Archived from the original on 2015-03-18. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  8. ^ "UMSL criminologist named ASC Fellow". UMSL Daily. 2014-01-14. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
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