Lisa Broidy, Ph.D., is a distinguished professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at UNM. She also holds an appointment as an Adjunct Professor at the Griffith Criminology Institute in Brisbane, Australia. She is a fellow of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) as well as a past executive counselor and vice president. She is the current co-editor of the Journal of Research on Crime and Delinquency. She has a history of service to UNM that includes such roles as Director of the Institute for Social Research, Chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminology, IRB member, and faculty senate ethics committee member.

 

Her scholarship focuses on the causes and consequences of crime with a particular emphasis on the ways in which gender, life course transitions, institutional contact, strains (including victimization and trauma), and emotions influence offending behavior and related outcomes, particularly among girls and women. Combining these interests, she is currently involved in projects in both the United States and Australia that examine the impact of criminal justice contact on the well-being of mothers and their children, as well as the ways in which criminal legal and mental health system contacts overlap.