Peggy Giordano

After receiving her PhD in 1974, Giordano accepted a faculty position at Bowling Green State University (BGSU).^[1] One of her first projects at BGSU involved interviewing female inmates incarcerated in state institutions to understand what influenced their delinquency.^[3] While working alongside Stephen Cernkovich, she determined that while race was an impacting factor in crime, the growing feminist movement did not lead to an increase in crime.^[4] The researchers then followed up with the inmates years later to see how their life had changed.^[5] Shortly after, she was promoted to the rank of Distinguished Research Professor and inducted into the Ritenour School District Hall of Fame.^[6]

Although she retired as the Distinguished Research Professor in 2009, Giordano returned to BGSU's Department of Sociology the next fall to focus exclusively on her research.^[3] In 2010, Giordano published a book examining the life course of career criminals and their children. She followed a group of juvenile delinquents over a 20-year period and interviewed their adolescent children.^[7] Giordano later co-received a grant from the National Institute of Justice to explore the processes associated with "getting out" of crime.^[8] During the COVID-19 pandemic, she also received a grant from the National Science Foundation for her project "The Coronavirus Pandemic: Predictors and Consequences of Compliance with Social Distancing Recommendations Designed to Mitigate COVID-19 Spread."^[9] In 2021, she received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, the most prestigious international academic award in the field of law.^[3][10]

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