Marjorie S. Zatz's research focuses on racial, ethnic, and gender-based discrimination in court processing and sanctioning; Chicano and Chicana gangs and the larger communities of which they form a part; the impact of juvenile and criminal justice policies on Chicano/a youth; gender and the legal profession; and social and legal change in Cuba and Nicaragua. Professor Zatz served as a member of the National Criminal Justice Commission from 1994 to 1996, when HarperCollins released the Commission's final report, The Real War on Crime. In 1997 she received the Herbert Block Award of the American Society of Criminology.Professor Zatz received her BA in sociology with a minor in Latin American Studies from the University of Massachusetts (1977), and her MA and Ph.D. in sociology from Indiana University (1979, 1982).