Joycelyn M. Pollock is a Professor of Criminal Justice at Texas State University-San Marcos. She holds a Ph.D. from State University of New York at Albany and a J.D. from the University of Houston. She has published numerous books, including Women, Law, and Social Control, 2nd ed. (co-editor with Alida Medro), Dilemmas and Decisions: Ethics in Crime and Justice, 4th ed., Women, Prison and Crime, 2nd ed., Prisons and Prison Life: Costs and Consequences, Counseling Women in Prison, Sex and Supervision, and Morality Stories (co-author with Michael Braswell and Scott Braswell). Her published chapters and articles are in the areas of ethics, female criminality and corrections.
