Beth E. Richie

Beth E. Richie is Head of the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice and Professor of African American Studies at The University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Compelled to Crime: The Gender Entrapment of Battered Black Women and Arrested Justice Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation. Dr. Richie is also the co-author of Abolition. Feminism. Now.