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Gabrielle Ferrales

Protrait: Gabrielle Ferrales

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. 2009 Northwestern University
J.D. 1997 Georgetown University
Room 1152 Social Sciences
Phone: 612-624-5021
Email: ferrales@umn.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Interest Areas

Law and Society; Gender; Criminology and Criminal Justice; International Criminal Law; Quantitative and Qualitative Methods; Factorial Survey Methods for Empirical Analysis.

Current Research

Prof. Ferrales’s scholarship lies at the intersection of gender, crime and law. Her current research examines in three distinct case studies the legal treatment of gender-based violence in both domestic and international contexts including: a factorial survey quantitative analysis of the sentencing decisions of Iraqi judges; an examination of prosecutorial decision-making in a domestic violence unit of a state district attorney’s office; and studying rape victimization survey data and field interviews collected in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Selected Publications

“Gender Violence in Warfare,” with Suzy Maves McElrath. 2012. Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook on Gender, Sex, and Crime, edited by Bill McCarthy and Rosemary Gartner.

“Collaboration and Resistance in the Punishment of Torture in Iraq: A Judicial Sentencing Experiment,” with John Hagan and Guillermina Jasso. 2010. Wisconsin International Law Journal 28(1):1-33.

“The Public Sociology of Sanctioning Torture in Iraq: A Case Study of Forced Democracy and the Rule of the Law,” with John Hagan and Guillermina Jasso. 2008. Actes de la Recherché en Sciences Socials 174:34-43.

“How Law Rules: Torture, Terror, and the Normative Judgments of Iraqi Judges,” with John Hagan and Guillermina Jasso. 2008. Law and Society Review 42(3):605-643.

  • 2008 Law and Society Association, Best Article Prize

“Swaying the Hand of Justice: The Internal and External Dynamics of Regime Change at the International Criminal Courts of the Former Yugoslavia,” with John Hagan and Ron Levi. 2006. Law & Social Inquiry 31(3):585-616.