Biography
Nancy Jurik is Professor Emerita of Justice & Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University. Her interests focus on work organization, entrepreneurship, and media constructions of gender and work. Her books include Doing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in Legal and Criminal Justice Occupations (Sage), Bootstrap Dreams: U.S. Microenterprise Development in an Era of Welfare Reform (Cornell University Press) and Provocateur for Justice: Jane Tennison and Policing in “Prime Suspect” (University of Illinois Press). She has received distinguished researcher and mentoring awards from Arizona State University and from the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Sociologists for Women in Society, and American Society of Criminology’s Division on Women and Crime. She is an affiliated scholar with the Gender and Sociology Department of the Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences Czech Republic.