Colleen Eren
Professor • Department of
A Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center, and a member of the Crime and Justice Research Alliance, Dr. Eren is an active contributor to the scholarly community. Her research focuses on white-collar crime, crime and media, criminal justice education, and social movements on criminal justice issues. She has written three books. Reform-Nation: The First Step Act and The Movement to End Mass Incarceration (Stanford, 2023) looks at the nationalization of the criminal justice reform movement and the unusual and unique constellation of stakeholders that comprise that movement. Her first book, Bernie Madoff and the Crisis: The Public Trial of Capitalism (Stanford University Press, 2017) examined the way in which the high-profile Ponzi scheme allowed the public to discuss the broader economic problems which led to the Financial Crisis of 2008. She has been featured in several documentaries about the Madoff case, and has been published in the New York Times on the subject. She is also co-author of The Impact of Supreme Court Cases on U.S. Institutions: A Sociology of Law Primer, with Dr. Robert Costello (Routledge, 2021).
Prior to entering academia, Dr. Eren was Director of Organizing at New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty, which led a successful statewide campaign to end capital punishment. She is vice president of the board of New Hour for Women and Children, which helps women reenter society after incarceration.
For more about Dr. Eren;s work, see her portfolio at https://www.colleeneren.com, and follow her on Twitter @colleeneren
Other Interests
Marathons and ultramarathons, Turkish language and culture, poetry
Degrees
Specialization
white collar crime, crime and media, social movements
Representative Publications
Reform Nation: The First Step Act and The Movement to end Mass Incarceration ;
California ; Stanford University Press;
2023
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32693
Bernie Madoff and the Crisis: The Public Trial of Capitalism;
Stanford, CA; Stanford University PRess;
2017
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25123
The Impact of Supreme Court Decisions on U.S. Institutions: A sociology of law primer ;
New York, NY; Routledge ;
2021
https://www.routledge.com/The-Impact-of-Supreme-Court-Decisions-on-US-Institutions-A-Sociology/Costello-Eren/p/book/9780367898489
Cops, Firefighters, and Scapegoats: Anti-Money Laundering Professionals in an age of regulatory bulimia;
, Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime ;
2020
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2631309X20922153?journalCode=wcca
It's personal: Victimization, motivation, and career aspirations of criminal justice majors at diverse urban colleges;
, Journal of Criminal Justice Education ;
2019
Representative Presentations
From Bernie Madoff to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: The Worst of the Worst and Criminal Justice Policy
Media
Bernard Madoff : L'escroc en col blanc
50 minute documentary about the Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme. Colleen Eren appears as an expert in the field of white collar crime and the Ponzi scheme.
