Cathy Spatz Widom

Cathy Spatz Widom
Alma materCornell University, Brandeis University
OccupationDistinguished Professor
Organization(s)John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
AwardsStockholm Prize in Criminology

Cathy Spatz Widom is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justiceof the City University of New York. She is known for her research on long term consequences of early childhood physical and sexual abuse and child neglect. Widom received the AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research in 1989,[1] the Edwin H. Sutherland Award in 2013,[2] and the Stockholm Prize in Criminology in 2016.[3]

  1. ^ "AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  2. ^ "Award Winners". www.asc41.com. Archived from the original on 2019-11-16. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  3. ^ "Criminology Prize Winners 2016". Stockholm University. Retrieved 9 December 2016.