Susan T. Krumholz
Phone: 508.999.8370
Fax: 508.999.8808
Office: Group 1, Room 392H
skrumholz@umassd.edu
Interests: Theories of crime, law and society; Interpersonal violence; Women and the law
Current research: Learn more about Susan's current research project that explores the relationship between women and the law
Dr. Krumholz came to the University in 1990 after a decade of working as an attorney in a variety of settings. In 1996, she assumed formal responsibility for administering the Criminal Justice Option in the department, and played a key role in creating the current Crime and Justice Studies Option, under consideration for becoming a major. While she has taught most of the courses in the Option, her specialty is Law and Society (PDF) and Justice and Society (PDF). She also directs the Internship program.
Dr. Krumholz takes a special interest in integrating her class work and the local communities. In 2006, she introduced the Inside Out Prison Exchange Program to UMass Dartmouth and the Bristol County House of Corrections. She taught a course, Exploring Issues of Crime and Justice Behind the Walls, in the fall of 2006, and she is currently teaching Women and Social Policy to 13 Inside and 13 Outside students in the women’s wing of the HOC. In spring 2006, her Senior Seminar class created a training video on dating violence for the Katie Brown Educational Program.
Susan sponsors students' internships through The Washington Center, a nonprofit organization that provides valuable work experience to college students in the Washington, D.C. area. Any student interested in learning more about the program should contact Robbin Roy at The Career Resource Center.
In addition to her work in the CJS Option, Dr. Krumholz has been an active participant in the Women’s Studies minor. She serves on the Advisory Committee and teaches courses on Women and Social Policy (PDF), Interpersonal Violence (PDF), and Women and the Criminal/Legal System (PDF), both face-to-face and as part of UMD’s Women’s Studies Online Minor.
She is an Advisory Committee member and Senior Research Associate at the Center for Policy Studies, and a faculty affiliate in the Masters of Public Policy program. Dr. Krumholz recently developed a course in Crime, Justice and Policy (PDF), which contributes to both the Policy Studies minor and the MPP.
She is an active presence on campus, as well as within the field where she is an officer in both the Justice Studies Association and the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology. She is also on the editorial board of the journal, Contemporary Justice Review, Feminist Criminology, and Crime, Punishment and the Law.
Dr. Krumholz completed her doctorate in Law, Policy and Society at Northeastern University, and a chapter from her dissertation on policing domestic violence and the use of specialized domestic violence units in Massachusetts police departments, was adapted for publication in Prentice Hall’s Policing and. . . series. Her current research project is titled Critical Perspectives on Women and the Law (working title). It is a critique of law as a masculinist endeavor, and involves ongoing interviews with women who have from graduated law school in the past thirty years.
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