Jill Portnoy Donaghy is a policy researcher at RAND. She is a criminologist whose research focuses on biological, psychological, social, and health-related risk factors for crime and antisocial behavior in children, adolescents, and adults. Her work integrates methods from multiple disciplines to identify causes and consequences of harmful behavior that can be used to inform prevention. She has published extensively on stress-related and other physiological risk factors for antisocial behavior. She also conducts research aimed at improving law enforcement health and wellness. Her work on youth prevention includes an evaluation of a youth holistic public defense program, the development of a juvenile justice prevention toolkit, and research into nutrition-based strategies for the prevention of childhood mental health problems.
She was awarded the Early Career Award from the American Society of Criminology's (ASC) Division of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology and currently serves as acting chair of the ASC Division of Biopsychosocial Criminology. Prior to joining RAND, she was an associate professor in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She received her Ph.D. in criminology from the University of Pennsylvania, her M.Phil. in criminological research from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, and her B.A. in criminology and Hispanic studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
B.A. in criminology; Hispanic studies, University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D. in criminology, University of Pennsylvania; M.Phil. in criminological research, University of Cambridge
