Fatal Peril: Unheard Stories from the IPV-to-Prison Pipeline in the United States

WICC2025 Presentation by Debbie Mukamal and Dr. Andrea Cimino (WICC2025-PID031)

Authors

Debbie Mukamal

Executive Director, Stanford Criminal Justice Center, Stanford Law School, USA

Debbie Mukamal is the Executive Director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center at Stanford Law School. During her 25-year career she has launched and managed many major projects and initiatives related to improving the criminal legal system. Her current portfolio of work includes directing the Regilla Project, an effort to study the frequency with which women in the United States are imprisoned for surviving intimate partner violence. Previous projects have included leading the Center’s efforts to analyze the move to virtual criminal court; addressing the admission bars to law school and the State Bar for people with criminal records; co-founding Project ReMADE, an entrepreneurship bootcamp for people with criminal records; and co-directing Renewing Communities (www.correctionstocollegeca.org), a statewide initiative to expand college opportunities for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students in California. From 2005 to 2010, she served as the founding Director of the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Ms. Mukamal oversaw all of the Institute’s projects, including the design and implementation of the NYC Justice Corps, an innovative neighborhood-based reentry service initiative, and the development of research in the areas of entrepreneurship, correctional education, long-term incarceration, and reentry from local jails. Before joining John Jay College, she served as the founding director of the National H.I.R.E. Network and a staff attorney at the Legal Action Center, where her work focused on the collateral consequences of criminal records. Ms. Mukamal holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. from UC Berkeley.

Dr Andrea Cimino

Research Director, Regilla Project, Stanford Law School, USA

Andrea N. Cimino, PhD, MSW is a social scientist and expert in gender-based violence with 15+ years of experience conducting quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research. As an independent researcher with Rogue Scholar Consulting, Dr. Cimino leads and executes multi-disciplinary research initiatives across government, academic, and non-profit sectors. Most recently, Dr. Cimino completed a project with Stanford Law School examining the role of intimate partner violence on persons found responsible for murder and manslaughter in the State of California. She also holds a position as faculty associate with the Danger Assessment Training and Technical Assistance Center at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Dr. Cimino has mover than 50 publications on violence, sex trafficking, and trauma, and has been a key investigator in over $8mil in sponsored research projects.

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