Rebecca Lennox is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her research draws on ethnographic methods to examine how race, social class, and gender intersect to shape women’s vulnerability to violent stranger crime, attitudes toward criminal justice actors, and emotional responses to the threat of victimization.
Her recent work explores public safety strategies and their impact on women’s fear of crime; racial and class patterns in women’s responses to gendered safety tips produced by urban police forces; and the ways in which family court systems reproduce gendered inequality through their treatment of domestic violence survivors. Prior to joining the CCJ faculty at UMSL, Rebecca completed a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Toronto.
