Natalie Sokoloff

Room: 520. 07 T
Phone: 212-237-2660
Fax: 212-237-8941
Email: nsokoloff@jjay.cuny.edu

Professor Natalie J. Sokoloff has taught in the Sociology Department at John Jay College for the past 30 years since 1972. She is on the doctoral faculties of the departments of Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Women’s Studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She also has been a Scholar of the Institute for Teaching and Research on Women at Towson University (MD) since 1994.

Professor Sokoloff earned her BA from the University of Michigan (magna cum laude), her MA from Brown University (N.I.M.H. scholar), and her PhD from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

PUBLICATIONS:

A. Books

The Criminal Justice System and Women: Offenders, Prisoners, Victims, and Workers, 3^rd Ed. (forthcoming 2003); 2^nd Ed. (1995); 1^st Ed. (1982). (McGraw-Hill). Co-edited with Barbara Raffel Price, each edition is a completely new book.

· Black Women and White Women in the Professions: Occupational Segregation by Race and Gender, 1960-1980 (1992, Routledge).

· The Hidden Aspects of Women’s Work (1987, Praeger). Co-edited with C.E. Bose and R. Feldberg with the Women and Work Research Group.

· Between Money and Love: The Dialectics of Women’s Home and Market Work (1980, Praeger).

B. SELECTED ARTICLES

· “Women and Criminal Law.” In Price and Sokoloff, 3E above.

· “Violent Female Offenders in New York City: Myths and Facts.” In Crime and Justice in New York City, Vol I. A. Karmen, Ed. (2001, Thompson).

· “A Case Study of Black and White Women Police in an Urban Police Department.” The Justice Professional, 6 (Spring, 1992). With B. R. Price and I. Kuleshnyk.

· “Evaluating Gains and Losses by Black and White Women and Men in the Professions.” Social Problems, 35 (Feb, 1987).

· “”Contributions of Feminism and Marxism to the Sociology of Women and Work.” In Women Working: Theories and Facts in Perspective. A. Stromberg and S. Harkess, Eds. (Mayfield). Translated into Japanese for U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal (1994).

CURRENT RESEARCH AND WRITING:

Over the course of her career Professor Sokoloff has undertaken work in areas of women, employment, crime and social justice, and domestic violence using a race/ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation perspective.

Currently Professor Sokoloff is working on four projects: one dealing with women and the criminal justice system generally; the second with women in prison in particular. The third deals with multicultural perspectives on domestic violence; and the fourth focuses on the community context of aggressive behavior among girls and boys. The two that look at women and the criminal justice system generally and with domestic violence are the focus of Professor Sokoloff’s sabbatical in 2002-2003:

· Finishing the third edition of The Criminal Justice System and Women. This edition adds to it the issues of globalization and international aspects of women and the criminal justice system (cjs); intersectionalities of race, class, gender and the cjs; and homophobia and lesbians in the cjs.

· Domestic Violence: Feminist Multicultural Perspectives in the U.S. This is an exciting new book of readings that will be published in 2004.

· A Bibliography on Multicultural Domestic Violence, which is in process and is currently available at the John Jay College Library Website.

· “Multicultural Perspectives on Domestic Violence: Challenges and Contributions to Understanding Violence Against Women in the Home” (with I. Dupont). An article in process.