Kitty Calavita

Kitty C. Calavita is an American criminologist, focusing in sociology of law, criminology, immigration, criminal justice and inequality, currently the Chancellor's Professor Emerita at University of California, Irvine and an Elected Fellow of the American Political and Social Science Society.^[1][2]

Calavita's research on immigration law globally spanned five books. Her first book, Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration and the I.N.S. (1992) analyzed Mexican labor in the United States after World War II. The book deep dives into the Bracero Program where Calavita identifies the ultimate reasoning to why it did not succeed. Calavita's second book in 1997 was co-written with Henry Pontell and Robert Tillman called Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in Savings and Loan Crisis this book examines the financial crisis of the 1980s. The book went on to win the Albert Reiss, Jr. Award for Distinguished Scholarship form the American Sociological Association's Crime, Law and Deviance section. The third and Calavita's second solo book, Invitation to Law and Society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law^[1]