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name: Carolyn Boyes-Watson
about: Carolyn Boyes-Watson is the founding Director of Suffolk University’s Center for Restorative Justice and Associate Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University. Professor Boyes-Watson has been on the faculty since 1993. She is also currently Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services, the prisoners’ rights organization of Massachusetts. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's and Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband, Mark, and her two children, Emily and Matthew. Her current research interests include restorative justice and criminal justice policy and she teaches in the areas of criminal jus Carolyn Boyes-Watson is the founding Director of Suffolk University’s Center for Restorative Justice and Associate Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University. Professor Boyes-Watson has been on the faculty since 1993. She is also currently Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services, the prisoners’ rights organization of Massachusetts. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's and Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband, Mark, and her two children, Emily and Matthew. Her current research interests include restorative justice and criminal justice policy and she teaches in the areas of criminal justice, juvenile justice and restorative justice. She has published in the area of restorative justice, criminal justice, technology and social control and drug policy. Her most recent book is Peacemaking Circles &amp; Urban Youth: Bringing Justice Home (Living Justice Press, 2008).- Compiled from The Ikeda Center and Living Justice Press ...more