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Amy E. Lerman

{{Short description|Political scientist}}

Amy E. Lerman is a political scientist specializing in public opinion, race, and political behavior. She is the Michelle Schwartz Professor of Public Policy and Political Science in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.{{Cite web |title=Amy E. Lerman {{!}} Faculty & Affiliated Academics {{!}} Research and Impact |url=https://gspp.berkeley.edu/research-and-impact/faculty/amy-e-lerman |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=Goldman School of Public Policy |publisher=University of California, Berkeley}}

Education

Lerman earned a B.A. in Social Policy and Political Science from New York University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University California, Berkeley.{{Cite web|title=Amy E. Lerman’s CV, University of California, Berkeley|url= https://gspp.berkeley.edu/assets/uploads/faculty/cv/Lerman_CV_3_1_25.pdf}}

==Career==

After an assistant professorship at Princeton University, Lerman took up the posts of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and full Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, she holds the Michelle Schwartz Professorship of Public Policy and Political Science and serves as the Executive Director of the Possibility Lab.{{Cite web|title=Amy E. Lerman’s CV, University of California, Berkeley|url= https://gspp.berkeley.edu/assets/uploads/faculty/cv/Lerman_CV_3_1_25.pdf}}

In 2023, Lerman was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.{{Cite web |date=2025-03-24 |title=Amy E. Lerman |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/amy-e-lerman |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=American Academy of Arts and Sciences |language=en}}

==Research==

Lerman is an expert in criminal justice, health policy, political psychology, race and ethnicity and public opinion. Her first book, The Modern Prison Paradox: Politics, Punishment and American Community, was published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press.{{Cite book|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/modern-prison-paradox/7AF21C0A17DFF042C09AA77B1A9EDBB9|title=Amy E. Lerman, The Modern Prison Paradox: Politics, Punishment and American Community (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).|language=en}}

Publications

  • {{Cite book|title=The Modern Prison Paradox: Politics, Punishment and American Community|year=2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}Reviews for The Modern Prison Paradox:
  • {{Cite journal |last=Kane |first=Brianne A. |date=2017-12-01 |title=Book Review: The modern prison paradox: Politics, punishment, and social community |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0734016816684924 |journal=Criminal Justice Review |language=EN |volume=42 |issue=4 |pages=412–414 |doi=10.1177/0734016816684924 |issn=0734-0168|url-access=subscription }}
  • {{Cite web|first=Bethany E. |last=Schmidt |title=The Modern Prison Paradox: Politics, Punishment, and Social Community |journal=British Journal of Community Justice|volume=12|issue= 2|url=https://galeapps.gale.com/apps/auth?userGroupName=mlin_oweb&sid=googleScholar&da=true&origURL=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.gale.com%2Fps%2Fi.do%3Fid%3DGALE%257CA413709483%26sid%3DgoogleScholar%26v%3D2.1%26it%3Dr%26linkaccess%3Dabs%26issn%3D14750279%26p%3DAONE%26sw%3Dw%26userGroupName%3Dmlin_oweb%26isGeoAuthType%3Dtrue%26aty%3Dgeo&prodId=AONE |access-date=2025-03-24}}
  • {{Cite journal |last=Skarbek |first=David |date=2014-12-01 |title=Amy E. Lerman, The modern prison paradox: Politics, punishment, and social community |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11127-014-0190-2 |journal=Public Choice |language=en |volume=161 |issue=3 |pages=537–539 |doi=10.1007/s11127-014-0190-2 |issn=1573-7101|url-access=subscription }}
  • {{Cite book|title=Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control|first1=Amy E. |last1=Lerman |first2=Vesla M. |last2=Weaver|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=2014}}Reviews for Arresting Citizenship:
  • {{Cite journal |last=Barlow |first=David E. |date=2015-06-01 |title=Book Review: Arresting citizenship: The democratic consequences of American Crime Control |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0734016815571201 |journal=Criminal Justice Review |language=EN |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=238–240 |doi=10.1177/0734016815571201 |issn=0734-0168|url-access=subscription }}
  • {{Cite journal |last=Gottschalk |first=Marie |date=September 2015 |title=Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control. By Amy E. Lerman and Vesla M. Weaver. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 312 p. 27.50 paper. - The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America. By Naomi Murakawa. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 280 p. 24.95 paper. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/arresting-citizenship-the-democratic-consequences-of-american-crime-control-by-amy-e-lerman-and-vesla-m-weaver-chicago-university-of-chicago-press-2014-312-p-8500-cloth-2750-paper-the-first-civil-right-how-liberals-built-prison-america-by-naomi-murakawa-new-york-oxford-university-press-2014-280-p-9900-cloth-2495-paper/640770AB3CB8EE319015BCF62A50816C |journal=Perspectives on Politics |language=en |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=798–801 |doi=10.1017/S153759271500136X |issn=1537-5927|url-access=subscription }}
  • {{Cite journal |last=Barker |first=Vanessa |date=2017-12-01 |title=Amy E Lerman and Vesla M Weaver, Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1462474515622619 |journal=Punishment & Society |language=EN |volume=19 |issue=5 |pages=650–652 |doi=10.1177/1462474515622619 |issn=1462-4745|url-access=subscription }}
  • {{Cite journal |last=Swartzer |first=Steven |date=2016 |title=Review of Arresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control, Lerman Amy E., Weaver Vesla M. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26540880 |journal=Ethics |volume=126 |issue=3 |pages=840–845 |issn=0014-1704}}
  • Good Enough for Government Work: The Public Reputation Crisis in America (And What We Can Do to Fix It). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019.

==Awards==

  • Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)List of Gladys M. Kammerer Award recipients, American Political Science Association (APSA), https://apsanet.org/programs/apsa-awards/gladys-m-kammerer-award//
  • Best Book Award (with Vesla Weaver), Urban Politics Section, American Political Science Association (APSA)List of Gladys M. Kammerer Award recipients, American Political Science Association (APSA), https://connect.apsanet.org/s13/dennis-judd-best-book-award/

==References==

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External links

  • [https://gspp.berkeley.edu/research-and-impact/faculty/amy-e-lerman Amy E. Lerman’s web page at the University of California, Berkeley]

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