Susette Talarico

Susette M. Talarico (May 10, 1946 – May 23, 2007) was an American political scientist and legal scholar. She specialized in the study of judicial politics and criminal justice. Talarico was a Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia from 1977 until her retirement in 2006. There she held a variety of professorships, including being the Albert Berry Saye Professor of American Government and Constitutional Law and a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs.

Life and career Talarico was born on May 10, 1946, in Danbury, Connecticut. After graduating from high school, Talarico joined the Sisters of Mercy, and earned her bachelor's degree at the Diocesan Sisters College. held a three-year appointment as the General Sandy Beaver Teaching Professor at the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and was a Danforth Teaching Fellow for six years. and in 1980 she edited a compendium of research methods and practices in criminal justice research, called Criminal justice research: Approaches, problems, and policy. For six years, Talarico was the editor-in-chief of the Justice System Journal. The Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia also endowed the Susette M. Talarico Public Service Leadership Award.

Selected works Criminal justice research: Approaches, problems, and policy (1980)