Professional Bio

Miranda A. Galvin's current research agenda is heavily concentrated in criminal justice case processing, including pretrial detention, prosecution, and sentencing. She has a particular interest in contextual variation, policy, and unintended consequences of policy for disparate case outcomes. Dr. Galvin has also published extensively in the area of white-collar crime, including related to issues of conceptual validity and definitional ambiguity, gender and white-collar crime, and life-course corporate crime. She received the Young Scholar Award from the Division of White-Collar and Corporate Crime and the Mirzayan Fellowship from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Her recent work has been funded by the National Institute of Justice and Arnold Ventures (formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation).

Miranda A. Galvin earned her doctoral degree from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her work has been published in Justice Quarterly, the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Criminology and Public Policy, and the Journal of Experimental Criminology, among others.