Carolyn Turpin Petrosino is Professor Emerita and is currently Adjunct faculty at Bridgewater State University and the founding chair of the Criminal Justice Department. She has 18 years of experience as a correctional social worker, correctional unit supervisor, and parole hearing officer within the New Jersey correctional and parole systems. Dr. Petrosino' s research focus is on hate crime phenomena. In addition to numerous journal articles and
book chapters, her recent book is Understanding Hate Crime: Acts, Motives, Offenders, Victims, and Justice.