Valerian Benazeth

Valerian Benazeth holds a PhD in Political Science from the university of Paris-Saclay (France) and is an associate researcher at the CESDIP Research Centre. Educated in France and in the United States as an exchange student (UTEP, TX), and then as a teaching assistant (Williams College, MA), he conducted one of the first empirical studies about desistance in France. His doctoral research integrated three years of fieldwork and received merit scholarships from the City of Paris and from the...See more

Valerian Benazeth holds a PhD in Political Science from the university of Paris-Saclay (France) and is an associate researcher at the CESDIP Research Centre. Educated in France and in the United States as an exchange student (UTEP, TX), and then as a teaching assistant (Williams College, MA), he conducted one of the first empirical studies about desistance in France. His doctoral research integrated three years of fieldwork and received merit scholarships from the City of Paris and from the French Department of Justice. After serving for a time as the head of the research department inside the French Youth Justice Board, he resumed teaching at university in France. See less