• Hadar Aviram

Hadar Aviram is a Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of the Law and the co-director of the Hastings Institute for Criminal Justice. Her research examines the criminal process and the correctional system through social science, empirical and experimental perspectives. She also studies social movements, particularly polyamory and other alternative family structures. She edits two criminal justice blogs, California Correctional Crisis (on prisons and corrections) and Iron in War (on policing and law enforcement), and is a frequent commentator on criminal justice matters in the media. Her book Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment, which examines the impact of the financial crisis on the American correctional landscape, is forthcoming from UC Press.