Dr. Kathryn Whiteley, associate professor of criminal justice, wrote a piece for The Pennsylvania Prison Society newsletter, Graterfriends, highlighting her research into women’s incarceration in Australia, Ireland, and the United States. Dr. Whiteley, who has been a Pennsylvania Prison Society Official Visitor (PPSOV) for over a decade, also shared her thoughts on serving as the film producer for the documentary, “Until We Have Faces,” which highlights women incarcerated for murder. The documentary is available for free here.

Dr. Kathryn Whiteley, associate professor of criminal justice, recently traveled to Australia to continue researching women incarcerated in the Australian Criminal Justice System for murder. There, she reunited with Deb Kilroy, Esq., Order of Australia Medal and CEO of Sisters Inside Inc., an organization that works with Australian women in the country’s criminal justice system.  Dr. Whiteley volunteered with Sisters Inside nearly two decades ago.

Dr. Kathryn Whiteley, associate professor of criminal justice, continued to research incarcerated women sentenced for murder during a recent return trip to Dublin, Ireland. While there she spoke to women incarcerated in the Dochas Centre women’s prison and met with Mary O’Connor, former prison governor of the Dochas Centre, Louise O’Connor, former chief officer, and Patricia Kelleher, assistant governor of the Mountjoy male prison. 

Dr. Kathryn M. Whiteley, associate professor of criminal justice, was a guest speaker for a Women and Crime class at Middle Tennessee State University. Dr. Whiteley discussed her book chapter, I am more than a crime, current research, and documentary about women incarcerated for murder in SCI. Muncy, Pennsylvania. Students read her chapter, which was published in “Demystifying the Big House: Exploring Prison Experience and Media Representations (2018), and the class watched her 2021 documentary, “Until We Have Faces.”

Dr. Kathryn M. Whiteley, associate professor of criminal justice and international expert on the study of women who kill, was a recent guest on one of the most highly watched programs across Australia, Channel Nine Australia’s Under Investigation: with Liz Hayes series. Dr. Whiteley appears just past the 22-minute mark of the Adultery, Murder, and Mayhem: The Scandalous Crime Unsolved for 30 Years.

Dr. Kathryn M. Whiteley,associate professor of criminal justice, officially launched her documentary, “Until We Have Faces,” to purchase or rent online. The documentary also was presented to the director, senior management, and various key staff of the Youth Advocate Program (YAP), Lebanon, on August 12. The goal is to use the documentary as a course template (educational resource) to facilitate/teach/share the personal experiences of women serving life in SCI Muncy Pennsylvania with Central Pennsylvania female youth.

Dr. Kathryn M. Whiteley, associate professor of criminal justice, was a guest, discussion panelist for LINCS: Literacy Information and Communication System, a national initiative of the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education. Under the banner of Correctional and Re-Entry Education, Whiteley shared “Teaching Incarcerated Individuals with Long Sentences,” with the principal from the Women’s State Correctional Institute at Muncy, Pa. The duo discussed educational instructional practices for women serving long, life, and life without parole.

Dr. Kathryn Whiteley, chair of the Department of Social Science and associate professor of criminal justice, met with Pennsylvania’s Correction Secretary John Wetzel and other senior Department of Corrections (DOC) administrators in December at the DOC’s headquarters in Mechanicsburg. Whiteley discussed her research about women incarcerated for life and life without parole. She also previewed her documentary, “Until We Have Faces,” and participated in a Q&A session with the DOC leadership afterward.

Dr. Kathryn Whiteley, chair of the Department of Social Science and associate professor of criminal justice, previewed her recently released documentary, “Until We Have Faces,” in Atlanta, Ga., this past December. Whiteley, who also held a Q&A session afterward, shared her “portrait that looks through the eyes of women incarcerated” during the Association for Justice-Involved Females and Organizations national conference.

Dr. Kathryn Whiteley, co-chair of social sciences and associate professor of criminal justice, and Kaitlyn Coulter ’20, a psychology major with a criminal justice minor, attended and presented at the American Society of Criminology Conference in San Francisco, Calif., last week. The duo presented their research, Characteristics of Female Sexual Offenders in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kristofer “Bret” Bucklen, director of the Pennsylvania Department of Correction’s Bureau of Planning, Research, and Statistics, a colleague of Whiteley’s, attended the session. The trip was made possible by a Student-Faculty Award from the Edward H. Arnold and Jeanne Donlevy Arnold Program for Experiential Education