Awarded by the University of California, Berkeley.

Chancellor's Dissertation Award

Awarded by the University of California at Berkeley.

Graduate Assembly Research Award

Herman Goode Award for Outstanding Student of Criminology

Awarded to Cheap on Crime by the Academic Library Association

CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Title

Rector's Award for Outstanding Graduate Student

Awarded by UC Hastings for Scholarship and Research (2010)

1066 Foundation Scholarship Award

Rutter Award for Teaching Excellence

Law and Society Association (since 2004)

American Sociological Association (since 2006)

Society for Empirical Legal Studies (since 2008)

The Israel Bar (since Nov. 1997)

Western Society of Criminology 

The California Bar (since November 2011)

American Society of Criminology

UC Consortium on Health and Criminal Justice

The Adventure of Norwood Builder: A Lawyerly Annotated Edition

Are Private Prisons to Blame for Mass Incarceration and its Evils? Prison Conditions, Neoliberalism and Public Choice

The Future of Polyamorous Marriage: Lessons from the Marriage Equality Struggle

Troubled Waters: Diana Nyad and the Birth of the Global Rules of Marathon Swimming

Social Historical Studies of Women, Crime, and Courts

 After forty years of increasing prison construction and incarceration rates, winds of change are blowing through the American correctional system. The 2008 financial crisis demonstrated the unsustainability of the incarceration project, thereby empowering policy makers to reform punishment through fiscal prudence and austerity. In Cheap on Crime, Hadar Aviram draws on years of archival and journalistic research and builds on social history and economics literature to show the powerful impact of recession-era discourse on the death penalty, the war on drugs, incarceration practices, prison health care, and other aspects of the American correctional landscape.

Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment

UC Hastings College of the Law was founded in 1878 as the first law department of the University of California, and today is one of the top-rated law schools in the United States. Our alumni span the globe and are among the most respected lawyers, judges and business leaders today. Our faculty are nationally renowned as both teachers and scholars.

UC Hastings College of the Law

Prior to joining the Hastings faculty in 2007, Hadar Aviram practiced as a military defense attorney in the Israel Defense Forces for five years, completed her M.A. in Criminology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her Ph.D. in UC Berkeley's Jurisprudence and Social Policy program, where she studied as a Fulbright Fellow and a Regents Intern, and taught at Tel Aviv University. Professor Aviram’s research focuses on the criminal justice system and examines policing, courtroom practices, and corrections through social science perspectives. Her methodology often combines quantitative, qualitative and experimental tools. Professor Aviram’s award-winning book Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment (University of California Press, 2015) analyzes the impact of the financial crisis on the American correctional landscape. Her current book in progress is an in-depth examination of parole hearings. Among other interests, Prof. Aviram has studied domestic violence, behavioral perspectives on prosecutorial and defense behavior, unconventional family units, elder abuse, public trust in the police, and the history of female crime and punishment. Prof. Aviram served at the President of the Western Society of Criminology and on the Board of Trustees of the Law and Society Association. She is one of the leading voices in the state against mass incarceration and is a frequent media commentator on politics, immigration, criminal justice policy, civil rights, and the Trump Administration. Her blog, California Correctional Crisis, covers issues pertaining to crime and punishment in California.

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Constitutional Law

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Mass Incarceration

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California Prison Systems

Federal Prison Systems

War on Drugs

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Law and Society

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California Correctional Crisis

Law Review Articles on SSRN

Gay San Francisco Cop Involved in Texting Scandal Resigns

Gascon on racist texts: 'No place for bigotry in San Francisco'

Quick Release of Info on Oakland Police Shooting May Signal Change

S.F. public defender detained outside court; office outraged

Spending on treatment to save on incarceration

Openness and Closure to the East: Insights from Israeli Criminal Law

Where Have All the Women Gone? The Decline of Women in the Criminal Justice Process

Trapped in the Law? How Lawyers Reconcile the Legal and Social Aspects of Their Work

Who Cares If It's a Choice? Evaluating Determinism as a Platform for the GLBT Rights

Two Transitions in Criminal Courtroom Research

Thomas Miller '73 Professor of Law

The book "Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment" has just been released by UC Press and was written by Hastings College Of The Law Professor ...

Cheap On Crime - Hadar Aviram & Jonathan Simon on incarceration in a recession era

"The Death Penalty" by Hadar Aviram

Professor Hadar Aviram's discusses CA Proposition 36, which seeks to reform the "three strikes law." Professor Aviram's most recent projects and publications analyze the impact of the financial...

MIC Forum: Proposition 36 and The Three Strikes Law

Invitation to our upcoming conference, March 21-22, California State Building.

California Correctional Crisis: Realignment and Reform

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