Rate My Professor Christine Scott-Hayward

Christine Scott-Hayward is Professor of Law, Criminology, and Criminal Justice in the School of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Emergency Management at California State University, Long Beach. She serves as Program Director and Graduate Advisor for the M.S. in Emergency Services Administration and represents her campus on the CSU Academic Senate. Her education includes a Ph.D. in Law and Society from New York University in 2011, an M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago in 2000, and a B.C.L. (International) with First Class Honors from University College Dublin School of Law in 1999. She advanced to Associate Professor at CSULB in August 2019, following six years as Assistant Professor. Earlier appointments include Supreme Court Fellow in the Office of the General Counsel at the United States Sentencing Commission from 2016 to 2017, Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School from 2011 to 2013, Law Clerk to the Honorable James Orenstein at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York from 2010 to 2011, and Research Associate at the Vera Institute of Justice from 2006 to 2009.

Her research interests focus on bail and pretrial decision-making, criminal justice policy, law and society, parole and post-prison supervision, and sentencing law and policy. Notable publications include the co-authored book Punishing Poverty: How Bail and Pretrial Detention Fuel Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System (University of California Press, 2019) and the edited Handbook on Pretrial Justice (Routledge, 2021). Select articles are 'Examining judicial decision-making in bail hearings in southern California' (Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law and Society, 2018, co-authored), 'Punishing poverty: California’s unconstitutional bail schedules' (Stanford Law Review Online, 2018), 'Rethinking federal diversion: The rise of specialized criminal courts' (Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, 2017), and 'Shadow sentencing: The imposition of federal supervised release' (Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, 2013). She has earned CSULB Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity Awards for 2017-18 through 2020-21, the Barnes Fellowship in 2019, and the Incentive Award to Internationalize Teaching and Learning in 2015. Scott-Hayward is Correctional and Sentencing Law Editor for Criminal Law Bulletin since 2019, previously co-editor of Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law and Society from 2014 to 2017, and participates in numerous university committees including Retention, Tenure, and Promotion since 2019 and the Graduate Committee since 2013.