Prof. Jodie Roure :“Human Rights and Domestic Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean”

Prof. Jodie Roure is an associate professor in the Department of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Prof. Roure teaches in the areas of domestic violence/gender rights, criminal justice, international human rights, international criminal justice, race, class and ethnicity in the United States. She is also the John Jay Director of the St. John’s Law School Ronald H. Brown Law School Prep Program. She graduated from Douglass College, Rutgers University, and obtained her Ph.D. at the University at Buffalo-SUNY in American Studies. Prof. Roure has conducted extensive research and published in the area of human rights, including violence against women and domestic violence in Brazil, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and the United States. She is currently writing her book entitled Domestic Violence in Latin America: Implementing International Human Rights Law and Principles for the University of Pennsylvania Press Human Rights Series. Attached to this message you will find two articles authored by Prof. Roure related to domestic violence.