| Dr. Allison Cotton |
Dr. Allison M. Cotton is a professor of criminal justice and criminology at Metropolitan State University of Denver (Colorado, USA). A Colorado native, Dr. Cotton received a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1991, a master’s degree in sociology from Howard University in Washington, D.C. in 1995, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2002. Dr. Cotton’s research and teaching interests range in subject from the death penalty, wrongful convictions and eye-witness identifications, to issues around race, class, gender and crime. Her first book, "Effigy: Images of Capital Defendants," was released in the summer of 2008 by Lexington Books. Her second (co-authored) book, "Class, Race, Gender & Crime: The Social Realities of Justice in America", is now in its 5th edition and was released in March of 2018 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Dr. Cotton is a member of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the American Society of Criminology. A two-time Fulbright scholar, Dr. Cotton has served as a board member of the Colorado Fulbright Foundation. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Colorado and an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (a public service organization). | 
