Kathryn Whiteley Ph.D Email and Phone Number

Area of Expertise and Research Interest: Women Incarcerated for Murder and Sexual Offenses.As an Australian who now lives in the United States and works as a college professor, I have had the opportunity over the last 20 years to personally meet and interview many women serving life to life without parole (LWOP) sentences from around the world. My passion and personal goal to work along side these women succeeds beyond academia. I continue to personally visit and write to many of the women, and in doing so, share their life pathways from childhood to incarceration, through their personal narrative lens. In some instances, I have meet women deemed as "high profile." Many of the women that I have met, still remain behind bars in Australian, Irish and United States prisons, however, some are now deceased. My goal is to continue to provide the women a platform for a "voice," in order for them to share some insight as to their "personal challenges and complexities," and therefore help society further comprehend why the many who were once victims of violence, later become the perpetrators. I am also a Pennsylvanian Prison Society Official Visitor.If you would like to know more, please email katem.whiteley@gmail.com