About Dr. Slakoff
Dr. Danielle Slakoff is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS). She is a nationally-recognized expert on the media's portrayal of the criminal justice system. Dr. Slakoff utilizes her degrees in journalism and criminal justice to provide a foundational basis for her research. She has published extensively on the topic of the Missing White Woman Syndrome and how women and girls of color are differentially portrayed in crime news compared to white women and girls. Her recent work has focused on examining media portrayals within the true crime genre. Additionally, she conducts research on intimate partner violence, with recent research exploring service providers' experiences working with marginalized clients.
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Her research has been published in top journals in the fields of criminal justice and mass communications, including Violence Against Women, Race and Justice, The Journal of Family Violence, and Feminist Media Studies. She is also the co-editor of The (Mis)Representation of Queer Lives in True Crime, an edited volume published by Routledge in 2023.
In November 2022, Dr. Slakoff received the Saltzman Award for Contributions to Practice from the American Society of Criminology's Division of Feminist Criminology. In 2023, she was a faculty awardee of the Woman of Influence Award at CSUS and received the Outstanding Teaching Award from the College of Health and Human Services. |
Dr. Slakoff's research and/or commentary has been featured on several local and national media platforms, including on the nationally-syndicated Tamron Hall show, PBS NewsHour, Vice News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, Deseret News, NPR's Texas Public Radio, on the cable news network NewsNation, and on many local television stations and podcasts.
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In June 2022, Dr. Slakoff was honored to share her research with employees at Time Magazine in a talk titled, "Addressing Media Bias: Let's Unpack Who Gets to be a Victim." Thank you to the Young Professionals Network and B.E.A.T. (Black Employees at Time) for sponsoring this event.