Sociology and Criminology

Contact Dr. Kimberly Cook
Office: SB 208-A
Phone: 910.962.3785
Email: cookk@uncw.edu

1994 Ph.D. Sociology, University of New Hampshire

1990 M.A. Sociology, University of New Hampshire

1987 B.A. (with distinction) Sociology, University of Maine

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Specialty Areas

Criminology

Social Justice

Feminist Perspectives on Justice

Death Penalty

Abortion

Restorative Justice

Violence Against Women

Wrongful Convictions

Teaching Areas

Introduction to Criminal Justice

Introduction to Sociology

Restorative Justice

Qualitative Data Analysis

Victimology

Criminology

Social Justice

Current Research Interests

Wrongful Convictions in Capital Cases

Shelters for Battered Women

Restorative Justice in Communities

Professional Associations

President, North Carolina Sociological Association

Co-Organizer for the 3rd National Conference on Restorative Justice

Vice-President (2005-2006), Society for the Study of Social Problems

American Society of Criminology
            Division on Women and Crime
            Division of Critical Criminology

Sociologists for Women in Society

American Sociological Association

Southern Sociological Society

International Coalition Against Sexual Harassment

Editorial Board, Feminist Criminology

Publications

• Westervelt, Saundra D. & Kimberly J. Cook, Albany Law Review Special Issue Editors, Forward, 75 Alb. L. Rev. (July 2012).

• Westervelt, Saundra D. and Kimberly J. Cook. In press (2012). Life After Death Row: Exonerees Search for Community and Identity. Rutgers University Press.

• Westervelt, Saundra D. and Kimberly J. Cook, 2012 (reprinted from 2008). Coping with Innocence After Death Row. Contexts Reader, Douglas Hartmann and Christopher Uggen, editors. New York, W.W. Norton and Company. p. 410-417.

• Cook, Kimberly. 2011 "Presidential Address: Realizing the Promise of Sociology: Going Public and Enriching Community." Sociation Today 9(1). (External Link)

• Kaya, Yunus, and Kimberly J. Cook. 2010. “A Cross-National Analysis of Physical Intimate Partner Violence Against Women.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 51(6): 423-444. (PDF)

• Westervelt, Saundra D. and Kimberly J. Cook, 2010a. “Framing Innocents: The Wrongly Convicted as Victims of State Harm.” Crime, Law, and Social Change 53(3): 259-275. (PDF)

• "Coping with Innocence after Death Row" Podcast for Contexts (PDF)

• Westervelt, Saundra D. and Kimberly J. Cook, 2008. "Coping With Innocence after Death Row." Contexts, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 32–37. (PDF)

• Westervelt, Saundra D. and Kimberly J. Cook, 2007. "Feminist Research Methods in Theory and Practice: Learning from Death Row Exonerees." Criminal Justice Research and Practice: Diverse Voices from the field. Susan Miller (ed.) Boston: University Press of New England. (PDF)

• Cook, Kimberly J. 2006. "Doing Difference and Accountability in Restorative Justice Conferences."Theoretical Criminology (10:1) 107-124, special issue on Gender, Race and Restorative Justice. Co-editors: Kimberly J. Cook, Kathleen Daly, and Julie Stubbs. (PDF)

• Cook, Kimberly J. and Chris Powell. 2006. "Emotionality, Rationality, and Restorative Justice." Advancing Critical Criminology: Theory and Application. Walter S. DeKeseredy and Barbara Perry, editors. New York: Lexington Books. (PDF)

• Cook, Kimberly J. and Chris Powell. 2003. "Unfinished Business: Aboriginal Reconciliation and Restorative Justice in Australia." Contemporary Justice Review 6:279-291. (PDF)