Merry Morash
University Distinguished Professor
514 Baker Hall
Biography
Merry Morash is a University Distinguished Professor at the School of Criminal Justice. With funding from the National Science Foundation, she recently completed a 6-year interdisciplinary mixed-methods study of the effects of probation and parole services on women. The study integrated theories of communication and psychology with criminal justice theories of effective supervision and reentry from prison. In the second phase, it examined women’s identity change in relation to recidivism and oth
Read moreEducation
PhD 1978, University of Maryland
MSW 1970, University of Maryland
BA 1968, Mount Holyoke College
Publications
Morash, M. (2024). In a Box: Gender Responsive Reform, Mass Supervision, and Neoliberal Policies. Oakland, California: University of California Press.
Morash, M. (2010). Women on Probation and Parole: A Feminist Critique of Community Programs and Services. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
Morash, M. & Kashy, D.A. (2022). The relevance of women’s economic marginalization to recidivism. Criminal Justice and Behavior.
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Effective Probation and Parole Supervision for Women and Men