Background
McCord, Joan was born on August 4, 1930 in New York City. Daughter of Robert and Mildred Lucile (Stern) Fish.
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McCord, Joan was born on August 4, 1930 in New York City. Daughter of Robert and Mildred Lucile (Stern) Fish.
She graduated from Stanford University in philosophy and then did graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University, followed by a masters in education, also from Harvard University, and then a Doctor of Philosophy in sociology from Stanford.
Teacher Concord (Massachusetts) Public Schools, 1952-1955. Research assistant Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1955-1956. Research associate Stanford (California) University, 1959-1965.
From assistant professor to professor Drexel University, Philadelphia, 1968-1987. Professor criminal justice Temple University, from 1987. Senior associate University Montreal, Quebec, 1987-1994, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1986-1997.
Co-chair National Research Council Panel on Juvenile Crime: Prevention, Treatment and Control.
Fellow American Academy Experimental Criminology (vice chair 2001-2003). Member National Science Foundation (advisory board 1987-1991), National Academy of Sciences (vice-chair National Research Council law and justice committee 1990-1996), International Society Criminology (board directors, vice president 1995-2004, Prix Emile Durkheim award 1993), American Society Criminology (president 1988-1989, Herbert Block award 1991, Edwin L. Sutherland award 1994), Society for Research on Adolescence (Social Policy Best Journal award 2002), American Sociological Association (chair section on crime law and deviance 1989-1990), Society for Life History Research (chair 1990-1992).
Married William Maxwell McCord, March 17, 1951 (divorced 1965). Children: Geoffrey Sayre McCord, Robert Maxwell McCord. Married Carl Avrom Silver, June 24, 1970 (deceased July 1998).