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Rainey Ransom Adjunct Associate Professor Justice, Law & Criminology

Bio
Rainey Ransom has been an Adjunct Professor at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ within the Department of Justice, Law and Society since 1991. Dr. Ransom was a full-time professor in the Department of Justice, Law and Society at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ for one year, but remains an Adjunct Associate Professor, where her areas of expertise include the prison system and capital punishment. She received the university’s Outstanding Adjunct Professor Award for an unprecedented two times in three years, 2006 and 2009. She earned a PhD in Sociology: Justice from Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ and a JD from the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America.

Rainey Ransom is currently a judge on the D.C. Superior Court Bench.
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