Education
Dr. Jill Portnoy is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies. Her research interests include Biosocial criminology, Psychophysiology, Hormones, Nutrition, and Biologically-informed prevention. Her research examines biological risk factors for antisocial behavior, aggression, and psychopathy. Her primary focus is on psychophysiological and hormonal risk factors for antisocial behavior, as well as interactions between these biological factors and the social environment. This research contributes to the broader field of developmental criminology, as well as into the etiology of crime. While most criminological research is either social or cognitive, her work contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the development of delinquency that takes into account factors across multiple levels of measurement. Her research has been published in many high-ranking journals including Criminology.