Nicole Rafter

Nicole Rafter is Professor Emerita of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. She achieved her PhD in Criminal Justice from State University of New York. Albany sparked her academia career in feminist criminology. She began writing on delinquent individuals from the time of her very first publication in 1969. In 1977 Rafter began teaching at Northeastern University’s College of Criminal Justice in Boston, Massachusetts. Here she developed one of the country’s first courses on women and crime as well as a course on crime films. In 1999 she resigned her position as a full-time professor to focus on her writing projects. In 2002 she resumed teaching at the College of Criminal Justice with a graduate course in Biological Theories of Crime.Her most recent two awards are the American Society of Criminology's Sutherland Award in 2009 as well as the Allen Austin Bartolemew award for Best Paper for Criminology's Darkest Hour: Biocriminology in Nazi Germany.