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Kimberly Kempf-Leonard

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Kimberly Kempf-Leonard
Alma materUniversity of Nebraska
Pennsylvania State University
University of Pennsylvania
SpouseCharles
Awards1997 Gustavus Myers Award for Human Rights in North America
Scientific career
FieldsCriminology
InstitutionsUniversity of Louisville
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
ThesisConstancy and change in the criminal career (1986)
Doctoral advisorsMarvin Wolfgang
Paul E. Tracy

Kimberly Kempf-Leonard is an American criminologist served as the dean of the University of Louisville's College of Arts and Sciences from 2014 to 2020.

Career

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Previously, she was the dean of Southern Illinois University-Carbondale's College of Liberal Arts from 2011 to 2014. She has also was on the faculty at the University of Texas-Dallas, the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Kent State University.[1][2] Her research advanced measurement and our understanding of disparities in criminal and juvenile justice processing by race, ethnicity, gender, and location. She also examined crime specialization, desistance, escalation, and onset using the 1958 Philadelphia Birth Cohort.

References

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  1. ^ "Kimberly Kempf-Leonard". louisville.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
  2. ^ "Kimberly Kempf-Leonard CV" (PDF).
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