Lila Kazemian completed her doctoral degree at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England) in 2005. She was also granted a one-year post-doctoral fellowship, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, UK). She joined the faculty at John Jay in the fall of 2006. Her research interests include life-course and criminal career research, desistance from crime, offender reentry, and comparative criminology.