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Harry Annison is Associate Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at Southampton Law School. He was previously based at the Centre for Criminology, Oxford University where he gained his MSc and DPhil in Criminology. His work focuses primarily on the intersections between political science (and in particular interpretive political analysis) and penal theory, through the examination of specific case studies including developments in indeterminate sentencing and probation reform. His first monograph Dangerous Politics: Risk, political vulnerability and penal policy was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. This formed the basis of a BBC Radio 4 documentary broadcast in February 2017. He has collaborated with reform groups including the Howard League for Penal Reform (and is a member of their Research Advisory Group) and the Prison Reform Trust (PRT); most recently working with the PRT on addressing the needs of families of indeterminate- sentenced prisoners.
Email: h.annison@soton.ac.uk
Website: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/law/about/staff/ha1y12.page

Dr. Dale Ballucci's research interests broadly include the administration of the criminal justice system, criminology, policing, socio-legal studies, sociology of childhood, and theories of governance. To date, her research includes examining the role of risk assessment tools in the management of young offenders in custody facilities. Her research also examines the decision-making process in unaccompanied refugee child applications through the analysis of case files.  She is currently working on several projects related to police responses. Building on her previous research she is currently working on a national study that examines how police respond to sex offenders and high volume offenders, particularly those deemed prolific and priority. Second, she is the co-investigator on SSHRC project that investigates police responses to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). This focus of this research is to understand how police respond to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). Lastly, she is also a co-investigator on a newly granted SSHRC project that examines the policing of Child and Youth Sexual Victimization in Canada. Her research topics are diverse but her primary focus is investigating the operations of legal practice, and the administration of criminal justice for vulnerable groups such as children and youth. Dr. Dale Ballucci's research interests broadly include the administration of the criminal justice system, criminology, policing, socio-legal studies, sociology of childhood, and theories of governance. To date, her research includes examining the role of risk assessment tools in the management of young offenders in custody facilities. Her research also examines the decision-making process in unaccompanied refugee child applications through the analysis of case files. She is currently working on several projects related to police responses. Building on her previous research she is currently working on a national study that examines how police respond to sex offenders and high volume offenders, particularly those deemed prolific and priority. Second, she is the co-investigator on SSHRC project that investigates police responses to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). This focus of this research is to understand how police respond to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). Lastly, she is also a co-investigator on a newly granted SSHRC project that examines the policing of Child and Youth Sexual Victimization in Canada. Her research topics are diverse but her primary focus is investigating the operations of legal practice, and the administration of criminal justice for vulnerable groups such as children and youth. 

Mina Barahimi is a PhD candidate in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Her research interests lie largely at the intersection of law and immigrant control, with a focus on issues such as citizenship and race; immigrant/non-citizen rights; the criminal management of immigrants (crimmigration); and deportation. In particular, she is interested in examining these issues in the US-Mexico context, and in comparative perspective with the European Union. Relying on multiple methods, including in-depth interviews, her dissertation research examines (1) how immigration enforcement officers engage in the policing of undocumented Mexican immigrants in the US-Mexico borderlands through the discretionary exercise of a summary (i.e. no court hearing) expulsion practice called administrative voluntary departure, and (2) the consequences of this practice for border communities—citizens and noncitizens alike. Voluntary departure is not legally constructed as deportation (or “removal,” as it is known in legal terms), but her research demonstrates that it functions much like deportation. More broadly, her dissertation makes the case that a richer understanding of the scope of the US deportation regime and its effects requires more expansive and critical empirical examination of what constitutes deportation and what it means to be deported.    
Email: mina.barahimi@berkeley.edu

Vanessa Barker is Docent and Associate Professor of Sociology at Stockholm University.  She has published on democracy and punishment, democracy and deportation, and the welfare state and comparative penal sanctioning.  She is the author of The Politics of Punishment: How the Democratic Process Shapes the Way America Punishes Offenders (Oxford University Press, 2009) and working on a new book about global mobility and penal order. She is a Book Review Editor (Europe/Australia/Asia) for Punishment & Society (http://pun.sagepub.com/). She is part of several research networks, including Border Criminologies (http://bordercriminologies.law.ox.ac.uk/), CRN Punishment & Social Control http://punishmentandsocialcontrol.weebly.com/crn.html, European Working Group on Prison, Detention and Punishment, and Border Crossing Observatory (http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/thebordercrossingobservatory/). She is a former and founding Board Member of Project 180, a prisoner reentry organization based in Sarasota, Florida. (http://www.project180reentry.org/index.html)

Email: vanessa.barker@sociology.su.se

Rabia Belt is a JD/PhD student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a Research Academic Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center. Her research interests include citizenship and democracy, legal history, disability, criminal law, and race and the law. She is the author of "'And Then Comes Life': The Intersection of Race, Poverty, and Disability in HBO's The Wire" published in Rutgers Race & The Law Review. Her current research investigates the impact of ideas about mental disability and mental capacity on the development of voting rights over the long 19th century.

Email: belt@umich.edu


Lynsey Black is a Lecturer in Criminology, at the Department of Law, Maynooth University, Ireland. Her research interests include gender and punishment, the global death penalty, historical criminology, and media representations of crime. Her doctoral research was undertaken at Trinity College Dublin, and explored women sentenced to death in twentieth-century Ireland. She is currently working on a monograph (Manchester University Press) which explores cases of women prosecuted for murder in Ireland post-independence. She is editor, along with Dr. Peter Dunne, of Law and Gender in Modern Ireland (Hart Publishing, 2019). She is involved in an ongoing British Academy-funded research project on the global death penalty (and you can find more info on the Caribbean Death Penalty Research project at https://caribbeandeathpenaltyresearch.wordpress.com/
Email: Lynsey.Black@mu.ie

Jay Borchert is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology, a Rackham Merit Fellow, and a Population Studies Center Trainee at the University of Michigan, a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law & Society at UC Berkeley School of Law as well as a 2015-2016 Mellon American Council of Learned Societies Fellow for his dissertation titled “Mass Incarceration, The Profession of Corrections, and the Way Prison Workers Construct Meanings about their Participation in our Punishment State.”  He is the 2015 Best Graduate Student Paper Award Winner for the American Sociological Association’s Section on Sexualities, as well as the 2015 Best Graduate Student Paper Award Honorable Mention Recipient from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Division on Crime and Juvenile Delinquency for his paper titled “A New Iron Closet: Failing to Extend the Spirit of Lawrence vs. Texas to Prisons and Prisoners” forthcoming in The War on Sex. D. Halperin and T. Hoppe (Eds). Duke University Press. Jay’s research examines human rights and macro-level inequality with a sharp focus on prisons and prisoners as objects of both legal and social negotiation and conflict. In the summer of 2016, Jay will be entering prisons in Kentucky in order to examine the culture of prison workers as the labor power required to make mass or hyper-incarceration efficient.  What does it mean to do this work? What kind of consciousness is required to motivate prison work considering the racial and economic characteristics of prisoners? He received his BA in Sociology from DePaul University in 2010 and his MA in Sociology from the University of Michigan in 2012. In addition, Jay is the current Chair of the Society for the Study of Social Problem’s Division on Law and Society. Last but not least, Jay’s work is driven by years of experience living in neighborhoods under high surveillance and police violence, in Los Angeles and Chicago, as well as his 7 years spent as a prisoner in California, Minnesota and Illinois. For some of Jay’s personal prison story, you can watch his appearance on “Life of the Law” titled “Hangin by the Telephone”, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqsDHKuQ46o.

Email: borjay@umich.edu or jborchert@berkeley.edu

Michelle Brown is associate professor of sociology and division head of law & culture for the Center for the Study of Social Justice at the University of Tennessee.  Her research explores the role of culture, affect, and emotion in the lived life of carceral regimes; forms of premature and slow death and dying in US criminal justice; disparate penal formations in global neoliberal contexts; and emergent forms of political organizing and resistance in response to mass incarceration.  She is the author of The Culture of Punishment (NYUP, 2009), co-author of Criminology Goes to the Movies (with Nicole Rafter; NYUP, 2011), and co-editor of Media Representations of September 11 (Praeger, 2003). She is currently co-editing the Sage journal Crime Media Culture, The Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology, and the Palgrave MacMillan Crime, Media  and Culture Book Series.  Her recent work includes the following publications: “Visual Criminology and Carceral Studies,” Theoretical Criminology 18(2);  “Of Prisons, Gardens, and the Way Out,” Studies in Law, Politics, and Society; and “Which  Question? Which Lie?” Reflections on Payne v. Tennessee and the “Quick Glimpse” of Life” in The Punitive Imagination: Law, Justice and Responsibility.  She is currently working on a book, provisionally titled Mourning Becomes Justice: American criminal justice as forms of social life and death.

Email: mbrow121@utk.edu

Brett C. Burkhardt is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University. His research examines the exercise of coercive power by legal and quasi-legal authorities. He is currently involved in four projects: (1) prison privatization, (2) policing mental illness, (3) police militarization, and (4) police use of social media.  He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Email: brett.burkhardt@oregonstate.edu. 

Webpage: http://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/spp/sociology/brett-c-burkhardt

Michael Campbell is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Denver His research employs mixed research methods to examine the social, historical and political forces that shape law and policy, especially those associated with mass incarceration. His work has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, Law and Society Review, Criminology, Punishment and Society and other sociological and criminological journals. His current research work includes a project funded by the National Science Foundation (with co-PI Heather Schoenfeld) that examines state-level criminal justice reforms that affect correctional populations and mass incarceration. The goal is to compare and contrast reforms across state contexts since 2000 to better understand how state and national forces have shaped policy reform efforts in the United States. This work aims to provide new insights into what types of actors and organizations deploy different resources in their efforts to shape penal policy. The ultimate goal is to identify successful paths away from mass incarceration and toward criminal justice policies that address rather than reinforce inequality.

Ph.D.    Criminology, Law & Society, University of California, Irvine

M.A.    History, Indiana University

B.A.     History, Indiana University

Personal website https://professormichaelcampbell.com

Leonidas Cheliotis is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science. Leonidas' main research interests, theoretical as well as empirical, can be grouped under two broad headings: first, the political economy and social psychology of punishment; and second, the implementation and consequences of penal and cognate policies. Jurisdictionally, the focus of his work to date has been on the Anglo-American world and the Mediterranean region from both national and international comparative angles. Methodologically, his research brings together theoretical concepts and insights from a variety of fields, especially from sociology, anthropology, psychology and history, also fusing them with findings from fieldwork he has undertaken in criminal justice settings. Leonidas has received various awards for his research, including the 2015 Outstanding Critical Criminal Justice Scholar Award by the Critical Criminal Justice Section of the American Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the 2013 Critical Criminologist of the Year Award by the Division on Critical Criminology of the American Society of Criminology. In 2014, his guest-edited special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly on 'Prison Realities: Views from Around the World' won the Best Public Intellectual Special Issue Award of the American Council of Editors of Learned Journals, Modern Language Association. Leonidas is an Editor and Book Review Editor of the British Journal of Criminology. In addition, he currently sits on the International Associate Editorial Board of Punishment & Society, the editorial board of the European Journal of Criminology, and the editorial advisory boards of Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order and the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Further information about Leonidas and his research can be found here: www.lcheliotis.net
Email: L.Cheliotis@ed.ac.uk 

Todd R. Clear is Distinguished Professor and Provost, Rutgers University-Newark. He has also held professorships at Ball State University, Rutgers University, Florida State University and John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Clear has authored 15 books and over 100 articles and book chapters. His most recent book is The Punishment Imperative by NYU Press (October 2013). Clear has also written on correctional classification, prediction methods in correctional programming, community-based correctional methods, intermediate sanctions, and sentencing policy. He was the founding editor of the journal Criminology & Public Policy, published by the American Society of Criminology. Clear has served as president of The American Society of Criminology, The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and The Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice. His work has been recognized through several awards, including those of the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, The Rockefeller School of Public Policy, the American Probation and Parole Association, the American Correctional Association, and the International Community Corrections Association. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology.
Email: todd.clear@rutgers.edu

Alessandro Corda is Lecturer (tenure-track Assistant Professor equivalent) at Queen’s University Belfast School of Law (United Kingdom). Before his appointment at Queen’s, he was Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Comparative and Cross-National Justice System Studies at the University of Minnesota Law School. Prior to his position at UMN Law, he was a Research Scholar at the Center for Research in Crime and Justice at NYU School of Law and a Visiting Researcher at Yale Law School. He holds a J.D. summa cum laude from the University of Pavia School of Law (Italy), a Ph.D. in Criminal Law and Penal Policy from the University of Pavia, and an LL.M. from NYU School of Law, where he was a Hauser Global Scholar. He is a Fellow at the Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at the University of Minnesota Law School and member of the Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) at the American Society of Comparative Law. Alessandro’s research interests include criminal law, sentencing, punishment policy (with a specific focus on community corrections and collateral consequences of conviction), comparative criminal justice, and the sociology of punishment. An up to date list of publications can be found here.
E-mail: acorda@umn.edu and A.Corda@qub.ac.uk

Alexandra Cox is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex in England. She went to Essex after serving as an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz in their Department of Sociology. Prior to getting her Ph.D., she worked in the fields of criminal justice and drug policy reform for a number of years, at the American Civil Liberties Union's Drug Law Reform project, the Drug Policy Alliance's Office of Legal Affairs (in California) and then at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, a community-based public defender office in New York City. She has continued to practice as a sentencing mitigation specialist, representing primarily young people charged as adults. Through that work, she has served on the boards of several organizations, including the New York State Defenders Association, Drama Club (which provides theater programming to incarcerated youth), Reentry Columbia, and Literacy for Incarcerated Teens. She was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to support her doctoral work and served as a Soros Justice Advocacy fellow, focusing on the role that frontline workers play in resisting decarceration. In 2017, she was a research fellow at Yale Law School, working on a study about the role of frontline workers in New York's criminal justice system. Alexandra's book, Trapped in a Vice: the Consequences of Confinement for Young People (Rutgers University Press),explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promoting change in the lives of young people, yet ultimately relies upon tools and strategies that enmesh them in a system that they struggle to move beyond. The system, rather than the crimes themselves, is the vice. It also acts as a vise in the lives of young people, pushing young people to change through the use of intensive interventions and services, but also pulling them away from meaningful opportunities for growth and development. The book explores the lives of the young people and adults in New York's justice system, revealing the ways that they struggle to manage the expectations of that system; these stories from the ground level of the justice system reveal the complex exchange of policy and practice.

Miltonette Craig is a Ph.D. student at Florida State University in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and a recipient of the Florida Education Fund’s McKnight Doctoral Fellowship. Her research interests include gender and crime, race and crime, prisoner reentry, the victim-offender overlap, and policing. Her current research and teaching focuses on imprisonment conditions and drug legislation, respectively. She is also a volunteer instructor at FCI Tallahassee, a federal women’s prison. She has a J.D. from Georgia State University College of Law, an M.S. in Criminal Justice from Florida International University, and a B.A. in Psychology and Spanish from Spelman College.

Email: moc13b@my.fsu.edu

Alessandro De Giorgi is an associate professor of Justice Studies at San Jose State University. Before joining the Department of Justice Studies at SJSU in 2007 his teaching and research interests include theories of punishment and social control, urban ethnography, political economy, and social justice. Currently, he is conducting an ethnographic research on the socioeconomic consequences of concentrated incarceration and prisoner reentry in a disadvantaged neighborhood of Oakland, CA.  Select Publications: De Giorgi, A. (2013). “Prisons and political economy in late capitalist societies.” In D. Scott (ed.) Why Prison? Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press; De Giorgi, A. (2012). Punishment and political economy. In J. Simon & R. Sparks (eds.) Handbook of Punishment and Society. London: Sage; De Giorgi, A. (2010). “Immigration control, post-Fordism, and less eligibility. A materialist critique of the criminalization of immigrants across Europe”. Punishment & Society, 12, 2: 147-167; De Giorgi, A. (2006). Re-thinking the Political Economy of Punishment: Perspectives on post-Fordism and Penal Politics. Aldershot: Ashgate, UK., De Giorgi, A. (2006). El gobierno de la excedencia. Postfordismo y control de la multitud. Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños. (Spanish); De Giorgi, A. (2005). Tolerancia Cero. Estrategias y pràcticas de la sociedad de control. Barcelona: Virus Editorial. (Spanish).

Email: alessandro.degiorgi@sjsu.edu

Corentin Durand is a PhD Candidate and Temporay Lecturer in Sociology at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Paris, France). His work focuses on grievance mechanisms and power relations in contemporary French prisons. Drawing mostly from ethnographies in two prisons, the project examines the content, functioning and transformation of various forms of communications between prisoners and authorities, where grievances can be voiced as long as they agree with certain material, formal and rhetorical standards. A major concern of the dissertation is to ethnographically described the transformations of prison governementality and resistance, as induced by the combined influence of administrative reforms, unprecedented normative activity from national and international courts and growing involvement of social movements. Corentin has published several journal articles, so far mostly in French, on the use of law by prisoners, the European monitoring of correctionnal policies, Foucault's discussion of power, and the constraints and opportunity faced by the public sociology of prisons. He has also been involved in several projects with prison-law practitioners, as the European Prison Litigation Network, funded by the European Commission.
Email : corentin.durand@ens.fr
Webpages : http://cems.ehess.fr/index.php?3749

Benjamin Fleury-Steiner is a professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware.  His research explores individual narratives and official and media discourse of punishment and rights in the context of broader institutional inequalities and sociopolitical conditions.  He is the author of four books:  The Pains of Mass Imprisonment with Jamie G. Longazel (Routledge, 2013); Disposable Heroes: The Betrayal of African American Veterans (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012); Dying Inside: The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison (University of Michigan Press, 2008); Jurors' Stories of Death: How America's Death Penalty Invests in Inequality (University of Michigan Press, 2004); and co-editor of The New Civil Rights Research:  A Constitutive Approach (A Choice Outstanding Academic Book Title for 2006)

Email: bfs@udel.edu

David Garland is Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University and a Professorial Fellow at Edinburgh University School of Law (where he taught from 1979 until 1992). Garland was the founding editor of the journal Punishment & Society and he is the author of a series of books on punishment and social control – Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies (1985), Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory (1990); The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society (2001) and Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition (2010). He has also written on such topics as the history of criminological thought, postmodernism, governmentality, risk, moral panics, the concept of culture, and the welfare state. His most recent book is The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction (OUP: March 2016). 
Email: david.garland@nyu.edu
Websites: http://sociology.fas.nyu.edu/object/davidgarland
https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/profile.cfm?personID=19938

Nazgol Ghandnoosh is a Research Analyst at The Sentencing Project, where she develops and synthesizes research to inform policy. She is interested in measures and perceptions of crime rates, causes of prolonged sentencing and racial disparities in punishment, and reform efforts. Her current project investigates the relationship between racial associations of crime and punitive policy preferences. Her dissertation examined resistance to mass incarceration through an in-depth study of a South Los Angeles group advocating for the parole release of term-to-life prisoners. Her work has been published or referenced in outlets including the Washington Post and Huffington Post, and academic journals including Ethnic and Racial Studies. She edits The Sentencing Project’s Race and Justice Newsletter. Nazgol holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Email: nghandnoosh@sentencingproject.org

Michael Gibson-Light is a PhD student at the University of Arizona in the School of Sociology. He is an ethnographer whose research focuses on various intersections of punishment & society, work, culture, and economic fields.His dissertation research entails an ethnographic study of a US state prison complex, exploring the structure and practice of prisoner labor in the carceral setting and the reproduction of social inequality within this institution. His works have been published in Research in the Sociology of Work, Qualitative Sociology, Poetics, and Cinta de Moebio.Recent awards include a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant from the National Science Foundation, the 2017 Student Paper Award from the ASC Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice, the 2017 Student Paper Award from the ASC Division on Corrections and Sentencing, and the 2017 Robert Dentler Award for Outstanding Student Achievement from the ASA Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology. Michael can be reached by email at mgibson@email.arizona.edu or via his personal website at www.gibson-light.com.

Phil Goodman is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Research interests include punishment, prisons, race, notions of rehabilitation, and penal labour. In 2017 Goodman published, with Joshua Page and Michelle Phelps, the book Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press), examining the history of penal change in the U.S. He has articles published in a variety of journals, including Social Problems, American Journal of Sociology, Theoretical Criminology, Law & Society Review, British Journal of Criminology, and the Canadian Review of Sociology.
Email: p.goodman@utoronto.ca

Guy Hamilton-Smith is the legal fellow for the Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Resource Center at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law. His work focuses primarily on the proliferation of post-sentence mechanisms of control for people who have been convicted of sex offenses (such as sex offense registries and civil commitment), the constitutional and human rights problems that they pose, and the development of more effective sexual harm prevention policy. He regularly presents and writes on these topics for both scholarly and popular audiences. You can read some of his writing via his website, or follow him on Twitter.

Kelly Hannah-Moffat is a full professor of Sociology/Criminology and Vice Dean undergraduate at University of Toronto Mississauga and the Director of the Centre of Criminology & Sociolegal Studies. She conducts interdisciplinary research on risk, human rights, gendered justice, punishment and marginalized and diverse populations.  Her work on risk, gender and punishment focuses on how variables such as gender and race interact with seemingly objective risk assessment tools, the experiences of the assessors and the institutional operationalization of policy reforms.  Her recent work-studies specialized courts (domestic violence, Aboriginal, community/wellness and drug courts) and how legal practices such as bail, sentencing, and case processing have collectively changed as a consequence of the hybrid approaches used in various specialized courts.

Hannah-Moffat, K.  (2015) ‘The Uncertainties of Risk Assessment: Partiality, Transparency and Just Decisions’, Federal Sentencing Reporter; (2015) ‘Needle in a haystack: Logical parameters of treatment based on actuarial risk - needs assessments’ Criminology and Public Policy; (2012) ‘Actuarial Sentencing: An Unsettled proposition’ Justice Quarterly; (2010) “Sacrosanct or flawed: Risk, Accountability and Gender-responsive Penal Politics” Current Issues in Criminal Justice. 22 (2): 193-216;  with Justice D. Cole (2007) Sentencing and Risk – Special issue of the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice 49 (4).with P. Maurutto (2012) ‘Shifting and targeted forms of penal governance: Bail, punishment, and specialized courts’ Theoretical Criminology; (2007) ‘Understanding risk in the Context of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.’  Canadian Journal of Criminology. 49 (4):465-491. (2005) ‘Assembling risk and the restructuring of penal control’.   British Journal of Criminology. 45: 1-17;  and (2007) edited with P. O’Malley Gendered Risks, Routledge.

Email: hannah.moffat@utoronto.ca

Erin Hatton an assistant professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her research focuses on work and political economy, while also extending into the fields of social inequality, law, criminology, and social policy. Her first book, The Temp Economy: From Kelly Girls to Permatemps in Postwar America, examines the temporary help industry and the rise of the new economy. Her second book project, tentatively titled Between Work and Slavery: Workers at the Margins of the Law, examines three groups of workers who labor without the full protection of employment and labor laws: prisoners, welfare recipients, and domestic workers.

Email: eehatton@buffalo.edu

Adelina Iftene, LL.B, LL.M, PhD is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Osgoode Hall Faculty of Law of York University, Canada. Her main research and teaching interests are criminal law and procedure, prison law and prisoners’ rights, sentencing, evidence, and human rights. She has completed her PhD in law at Queen’s University, Canada, specializing in criminal and prison law. Her dissertation - funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) through an Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholarship - used social science methodology to answer legal questions regarding the imprisonment of older male prisoners in Canadian federal corrections. For the purpose of this project she carried out 197 interviews in 7 penitentiaries with the purpose of reviewing the senior prisoners’ perspective on their health status and access to medical care, victimization and discipline, programming and relationships. Her main current research project is an investigation into the aging of female prisoners, their needs, the treatment they receive behind bars and the legal actions that could help enforce their rights. Her work lies at the intersection of law, policy, and social science. She uses empirical social science and feminist methodology to collect data that would support the articulation of policy claims and legal challenges of the current status-quo. The findings of the two studies together will become part of the same monograph on life and rights of senior prisoners in Canadian penitentiaries.

Jize Jiang is an Assistant Professor at the School of Law of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China. He received his Ph.D. in Criminology, Law, and Justice from the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, and LL.B. from Beijing Forestry University, China. He teaches and researches primarily in the area of criminal law and criminal justice, with a particular interest in sociological, comparative, and historical examination of its institutions and processes. In addition, he is also interested in sociology of law and social theory (mainly institutional analysis). His ongoing projects include how migration control intersects with the criminal justice system, victim participation in criminal justice, and an institutional approach to the study of penal transformations in China. 
Email: jiang.jize@mail.shufe.edu.cn

Josh Kaiser is a Law and Social Science Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and a JD-PhD candidate in law and sociology at Northwestern University. His research focuses on state control and state violence across nations through mixed methodologies and a critical, sociological lens. His dissertation (chaired by John Hagan and advised by Laura Beth Nielsen, Bob Nelson, Heather Schoenfeld, and Jonathan Simon) compares the rise of mass incarceration in the late twentieth-century United States to the earlier but less visible rise of “hidden sentences,” meaning all legally imposed punishments inflicted upon criminalized people beyond their formally recognized, judge-issued sentences. Kaiser is the author of “Revealing the Hidden Sentence” and two other forthcoming articles on hidden sentences, of “Gendered Genocide” and two other articles that illuminate the social, multidimensional process of genocide, and of Iraq and the Crimes of Aggressive War and four articles on the sectarian displacement, criminal entrepreneurship, and legal cynicism caused by the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Email: joshauwa@northwestern.edu

Nicole Kaufman is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ohio University, where she is also an affiliate of the Center for Law, Justice and Culture. Kaufman received her PhD in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014. She is interested in the ways that formerly incarcerated people--especially women--are incorporated into American society through the work of non-state organizations and policies that encourage the privatization of post-release services. She is also interested in understanding the church/state boundary in the regulation of treatment programs for people with criminal records, especially at faith-based settings. 

Email: kaufmann@ohio.edu

Paul Kaplan is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Public Affairs at San Diego State University, and the President of the Western Society of Criminology (2013-20140.  He received his PhD in Criminology, Law and Society from the University of California, Irvine in 2007. Prior to entering academics, Paul worked as a mitigation investigator on capital cases.  His primary research area is capital punishment, but he also works on projects involving sociolegal theory, cultural criminology, and comparative law. His work has appeared in journals such as the Law & Society Review, Theoretical Criminology, and Law & Social Inquiry. His first book, Murder Stories: Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment was published in 2012.  Paul loves underground metal, cats and dogs, craft beer, and basketball.

Email: pkaplan@mail.sdsu.edu 

Erin M. Kerrison is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. Kerrison’s work extends from a legal epidemiological framework, wherein law and legal institutions operate as social determinants of health. Specifically, through varied agency partnerships, her mixed-method research agenda investigates the impact that compounded structural inequality, concentrated poverty, and state supervision has on service delivery, substance abuse, violence, and other health outcomes for individuals and communities marked by criminal justice intervention. Kerrison’s recent empirical research has been published in Criminal Justice and Behavior, Women and Criminal Justice, the Journal of Developmental and Life Course Criminology, and the Harvard Journal on Racial and Ethnic Justice. Her current book project, “Hustles and Hurdles: Law’s Impact on Desistance for Job-Seeking Former Prisoners,” foregrounds life history narratives for a sample of 300 drug-involved former prisoners, to demonstrate how law, labor markets, neighborhoods, criminal justice surveillance, and substance abuse patterns are compounded and steer long-term desistance and health outcomes.
Email: kerrison@berkeley.edu

Ross Kleinstuber is an Associate Professor of Justice Administration & Criminology at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. His research focuses on capital sentencing, law & society, racial inequality, and mass incarceration. His most recent publications include a chapter on "Mass Incarceration" in the Routledge Handbook of Social, Economic, and Criminal Justice (edited by Cliff Roberson, 2018); “Into the Abyss: The Unintended Consequences of Death Penalty Abolition” (co-authored with Sandra Joy and Elizabeth A. Mansley) in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change (Vol. 19, Issue 3, 2016); and “Erasing Race: Overlooking Racial Disadvantage as a Mitigating Factor in Capital Penalty Trials” in the Journal of Crime and Justice (published online ahead of print). His previous work on Delaware’s capital sentencing system was cited in the Delaware Supreme Court’s decision striking down the state’s death penalty statute in Rauf v. Delaware (2016) and published in his first book, Hegemonic Individualism and Subversive Stories in Capital Mitigation (Ashgate [now Routledge], 2014).

Email: rkleins@pitt.edu

Aaron Kupchik is professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware. His research focuses on the punishment of youth in schools, courts, and correctional facilities. He is author of The Real School Safety Problem (U. California 2016), Homeroom Security: School discipline in an age of fear, and Judging Juveniles: Prosecuting adolescents in adult and juvenile courts (winner of the 2007 American Society of Criminology Hindelang Book Award). His current work considers how excessive and exclusionary school punishment can impact children’s lives into their adulthood, and also affect the fortunes of their families.

Email: akupchik@udel.edu

Sarah Lageson is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers School of Criminal Justice. She studies how technology changes laws, the criminal justice system, and forms of punishment. Her research examines "digital punishment" and the documentation of justice system contact on the internet. She also hosts "Give Methods a Chance," a podcast devoted to research methods. Her work has been published in Criminology, Law and Social Inquiry, the British Journal of Sociology, Sociological Methods and Research, Contexts, and online at The Society Pages. 

Email: sarah.lageson@rutgers.edu

Website: www.sarahlageson.com

Ayobami Laniyonu is a PhD candidate in the department of Political Science and a Master’s degree student in Statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is currently a National Science Foundation & Law and Society Association Dissertation Fellow at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, Illinois (Fall 2016 – Spring 2018). Ayo's research interests center around state practices of social control, political behavior, and municipal politics. His current research explores the impact that policing practices have on political participation and attempts to reconcile apparently contradictory evidence that suggests, on the one hand, that intense and punitive police-citizen contact reduces the likelihood of citizens to engage in politics, but recognizes, on the other hand, that instances of police violence and abuse can motivate significant levels of political mobilization and protest. Other projects, such as work published by Urban Affairs Review, explores the impact that gentrification, urban inequality, and race have on punitive and racialized policing practices.
Email: alaniyonu@gmail.com
Website: ayolaniyonu.com

Chrysanthi Leon, JD, PhD, is associate professor of Sociology & Criminal Justice, Women & Gender Studies, and Legal Studies at the University of Delaware.  Leon received her graduate degrees from UC Berkeley. Leon is an interdisciplinary scholar in the area of penology, law and society whose research and teaching includes sex crime and punishment, sex work, and law and literature Inside Out. Her book, Sex Fiends, Perverts and Pedophiles: Understanding Sex Crime Policy in America is available fromNYU Press.  Leon is co-editor, with Katie Hail-Jares and Corey Shdaimah, of Challenging Perspectives on Street-Based Sex Work (Temple University Press).   

Amy E. Lerman is a political scientist who joined the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley in 2013. She writes on issues related to public opinion, political participation, social inequality, and criminal justice. She is the author of The Modern Prison Paradox: Politics, Punishment, and Social Community (Cambridge University Press 2013) and the forthcoming bookArresting Citizenship: The Democratic Consequences of American Crime Control (with Vesla Weaver, The University of Chicago Press 2014). In addition to research and teaching, she has been affiliated with the Prison University Project college program at San Quentin State Prison since 2002.

Email: alerman@berkeley.edu

Ian Loader is Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of All Souls College. Ian is the author of six books, the most recent of which Public Criminology? was published by Routledge in 2010 (with Richard Sparks) and has recently been translated into Mandarin. He has also edited six volumes, including Justice and Penal Reform (with Barry Goldson, Steve Farrall and Anita Dockley, Routledge, 2016), Democratic Theory and Mass Incarceration (with Albert Dzur and Richard Sparks, Oxford UP, September 2016 ) and The SAGE Handbook of Global Policing (with Ben Bradford, Bea Jauregui and Jonny Steinberg) which is due to appear in July 2016. Ian has also published theoretical and empirical papers on policing, private security, public sensibilities towards crime, penal policy and culture, the politics of crime control, and the public roles of criminology. Ian is currently working on a project – termed A Better Politics of Crime - concerned with different dimensions of the relationship between crime control and democratic politics. The first strand of work on this project was brought together in Public Criminology?The next key stage will be a monograph with the working title of Ideologies and Crime Control which is in the early stages of preparation. He also continues to write on policing and private security. Ian is Editor-in-Chief of the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice. He has previously served on the Editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology and Theoretical Criminology.
Email: Ian.loader@crim.ox.ac.uk

Jamie Longazel is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. His research examines issues of race and political economy, typically within the contexts of immigration and imprisonment. His recent book, Undocumented Fears: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania (2016, Temple University Press), won the North Central Sociological Association’s 2017 Scholarly Achievement Award. He is also the co-author (with Benjamin Fleury-Steiner) of The Pains of Mass Imprisonment (2013, Routledge). His work has appeared in academic journals across several disciplines, including outlets such as Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, Punishment & Society, and Theoretical Criminology. 

Mona Lynch is Professor and Chancellor’s Fellow in Criminology, Law and Society and, by courtesy, the School of Law at the University of California, Irvine. Trained as a social psychologist, her research focuses on criminal sentencing and punishment, and on institutionalized forms of bias within criminal justice settings. She is current editor, with Kelly Hannah-Moffat, of the journal Punishment & Society. Her research has been published in a wide range of journals, law reviews, and edited volumes including American Journal of Criminal Law, British Journal of Criminology, Criminology and Public Policy; Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology; Law and Human Behavior; Law & Social Inquiry; Law and Society Review; Law and Policy Review; Punishment and Society; Miami Law Review; Michigan State Law Review; Studies in Law, Politics, and Society; and Theoretical Criminology. She is also the author of Sunbelt Justice: Arizona and the Transformation of American Punishment (2009), published with Stanford University Press.
Email: lynchm@uci.edu 

Karin D. Martin is a crime policy specialist whose areas of expertise are monetary sanctions, racial disparities in the criminal justice system, and decision-making in the criminal justice context. These issues come together in her current projects, which examine the use of money in punishment (e.g., fines, fees, restitution, etc.). She is currently co-PI in a five-year research project examining the use of monetary sanctions in eight states. Karin studied Psychology at Stanford University and worked in the non-profit sector in the San Francisco Bay Area before attending University of California, Berkeley where she earned an MPP, an MA in Political Science, and a PhD in Public Policy. She was a post-doctoral scholar in the Psychology Department at UCLA where she was also a Fellow with the Center for Policing Equity. She was Assistant Professor of Public Management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (2013-2017) and was a Visiting Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2016. Her work has appeared in Annual Review of Criminology, Social Issues and Policy Review, Law and Human Behavior, and Journal of Social and Political Psychology.
Email: kdmartin@uw.edu
Website: https://evans.uw.edu/profile/martin-0

Allison McKim is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Bard College in Annandale, New York. Her research examines gender in contemporary punishment, as well as links between punishment and other modes of social control. She focuses on how race and class intersect with gendered governance across the penal state, welfare provision, and healthcare. Her book, Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration(Rutgers University Press 2017), is an ethnographic comparison of two drug treatment programs for women, one in the criminal justice system and one in the private-pay healthcare system. In these rehabs, she found two very different ways of defining and treating addiction. McKim’s book shows that addiction treatment is an increasingly important mode of governance, which is reorganizing the links between punishment and welfare. As a result, ideas about addiction reflect the race, class, and gender politics of the punitive turn, making it a racialized and gendered category. Her study ultimately reveals a two-tiered rehab system, bifurcated by race and class. While reformers hope that treatment will be less punitive, McKim argues that governing through addiction further stigmatizes criminalized women, extends the penal power, and undermines our capacity to challenge inequality. This research has also appeared in the journals Gender & Society and Signs. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in sociology from New York University and a B.A. from Barnard College.
Email: amckim [ at ] bard [dot] edu

Fergus McNeill works at the University of Glasgow in the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research and in Sociology. His work is mostly concerned with institutions, cultures and practices of punishment (and its alternatives) in the community. Prior to becoming an academic in 1998, Fergus worked for a decade in residential drug rehabilitation and as a criminal justice social worker. Currently, Fergus is working on two projects: ‘Distant Voices: Coming Home’ is a major, multi-partner 3-year Economic and Social Research Council/Arts and Humanities Research Council project exploring re-integration after punishment through creative practices and research methods; in particular song-writing and sharing. ‘Pervasive Punishment’ is a British Academy funded Mid-Career Fellowship which critically examines the emergence and contours of ‘mass supervision’ and how we might best respond to it.
Email: Fergus.McNeill@glasgow.ac.uk
Website: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=zNKaaugAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Dario Melossi is Full Professor of Criminology in the School of Law of the University of Bologna. After having being conferred a law degree at this University, he went on to do a Ph. D. in sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was then Assistant and thereafter Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis, from 1986 to 1993. He has published  The Prison and the Factory (1977, together with Massimo Pavarini), The State of Social Control: A Sociological Study of Concepts of State and Social Control in the Making of Democracy (1990), and Controlling Crime, Controlling Society: Thinking About Crime in Europe and America (2008), plus about 200 other edited books, chapters, and articles. He is Editor of  Studi sulla questione criminale and Editor-in-Chief of Punishment and Society, and is member of the Board of many other professional journals. His current research concerns the process of construction of deviance and social control within the European Union, especially with regard to migration processes.

Email: dario.melossi@unibo.it

Joshua Page is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota and a faculty affiliate at the Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. His research, teaching, and public engagement focus on criminal punishment, though he’s also interested in politics, labor unions, sports, and an assortment of other topics. He’s the author of The Toughest Beat: Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California (OUP, 2011), and he’s currently writing a book with Michelle Phelps and Phil Goodman titled Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice.

Email: page@umn.edu

Debra Parkes is Professor and Chair in Feminist Legal Studies at the Peter A. Allard School of  Law, University of British Columbia. Her research focuses punishment policy and incarceration, with particular examination of women’s imprisonment, sentencing, prisoner rights, and prison abolitionist lawyering. Her current research, funded by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), examines the law, policy, and lived experience of life sentences in Canada. Debra was Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law from 2009-2013 and she recently guest edited a special volume of the Canadian Journal of Human Rights on solitary confinement and human rights.
You can learn more at: http://www.allard.ubc.ca/faculty-staff/debra-parkes  
Email: parkes@allard.ubc.ca
Access papers here: http://ssrn.com/author=345996

Daniel Pascoe is an Assistant Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, where he teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Legal Research & Writing.  He has previously held visiting appointments at the University of Western Australia's Crime Research Centre in Perth, Fordham University Law School in New York City, and Indonesia Jentera Law School in Jakarta.  Daniel's research focuses on punishment and pardon in comparative perspective, particularly relating to the death penalty.  He also has research interests in transitional justice, Southeast Asian legal systems, and legal pedagogy.  Daniel received a DPhil in Law and an MPhil in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Oxford, and an LLB (Hons) and Bachelor of Asian Studies (Hons) from the Australian National University.  His monograph entitled Last Chance for Life: Clemency in Southeast Asian Death Penalty Cases will be published by Oxford University Press in September 2018.  A further co-edited collection (with Dr Andrew Novak, GMU) entitled Executive Clemency: Comparative and Empirical Perspectives will be published by Routledge in 2019.  Web: http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/slw/people/people_daniel.html
Email: dcpascoe@cityu.edu.hk

Holly Pelvin is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. Holly completed her Ph.D. at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto in September 2017. Her dissertation was the first investigation of the lived experience and consequences of pre-trial imprisonment, based on field observations and in-depth interviews she conducted with 120 detainees and 40 correctional staff at four maximum-security provincial prisons in Ontario, Canada. This research was nominated for the Law and Society Association's Dissertation Prize, the Governor General Gold Medal Award, and is the subject of an ongoing book project. Her current research seeks to explore the issues of pre-trial imprisonment and barriers to bail release for Indigenous people in Alberta; investigating the links between the ‘helping’ and ‘harming’ arms of the state, and in particular, the legacies and continued practices of colonization. Holly is broadly interested in the ways the criminal justice system intervenes in people’s lives, and the consequences of that intervention, particularly before conviction. Her current and future research interests include arrest and police custody, pre-trial incarceration, bail/courts, race/inequality, and imprisonment and immigration detention, using qualitative and mixed-methods. 

Natalie Pifer is an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Rhode Island. Her research agenda is focused on the process of creating and implementing criminal justice reforms, especially those centered on changes in policing, punishing, and incarcerating vulnerable groups or to how extreme punishments are used. Previous projects trace how the 8th Amendment's logic of categorically exempting certain groups from certain punishments has proliferated throughout the extreme punishment landscape and ask how these categories are given meaning by courts and correctional administrators. Her on-going research examines reforms that promise to better police and incarcerate the mentally ill in Los Angeles and how a small town in New England is working to divert the mentally ill from the criminal justice system to treatment in the community.

You can learn more about about her work at https://web.uri.edu/ccj/meet/natalie-a-pifer/

Email: npifer@uri.edu 

Michelle S Phelps is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities). Her work focuses on the punitive turn in the U.S., with a special focus on prisons, probation, and policing. Together with Joshua Page and Philip Goodman, she is the title of Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice, which outlines a theoretical perspective on penal change by tracing U.S. penal history from the birth of the prison to today's reforms. Her work has been published in Law & Society Review, Law & Policy, the ANNALS, British Journal of Criminology, Theoretical Criminology, and Punishment & Society. Current projects focus on understanding the process of policing reform in Minneapolis and the intersection of community supervision and health. She teaches courses on the sociology of crime and punishment and policing. Michelle holds a B.A. in Psychology from UC Berkeley and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University. You can learn more at: www.michellesphelps.com

Gary Potter is a professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. He has authored eight books, including Drugs in Society, Criminal Organizations, Organized Crime, Controversies in White Collar Crime, Constructing Crime, and The Mythology of Crime and Criminal Justice. He has also been published in several journals, including Crime, Law and Social Change, the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Policy Review, Journal of Criminal Justice and Corruption and Reform. He  is currently doing research on the social construction of crime, criminal justice policy, drug trafficking and money laundering.
Email: Gary.Potter@eku.edu

Marianne Quirouette is currently a Banting fellow and postdoctoral scholar at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto (2017), where she was also a junior fellow at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies. Beginning December 2018, Marianne will be Assistant Professor in Criminology at Université de Montréal. Her work focuses on the regulation of complex social and legal problems in the community and in the criminal justice system (w/ courts, police & corrections). She studies risk management and governance practices through the lens of marginalized individuals and various institutional or other professional stakeholders. She has published in the British Journal of Criminology, Theoretical Criminology, Policing and Society, Journal of Poverty and the Canadian Journal of Law & Societyand was awarded UofT’s Canadian Sociological Association Outstanding Graduating Ph.D. student Award 2017 as well as CLSA’s Best Paper Prize for Canadian Journal of Law and Society 2016. One of her dissertation chapters – published with Theoretical Criminology - illustrate how non-legal service providers extend the power and reach of criminal courts but also work to deflect the punitive power of law and redirect discourse towards evidence-based, medical, cultural and sociological perspectives. Marianne’s current research document when and how defense lawyers in lower criminal courts take into account socio-economic factors (ex: past/present poverty, racism, social exclusion, lack of housing, mental health and substance use supports) throughout the legal process, including: (*) when presenting evidence and making arguments in court (ex: with bail, trial or sentencing stages); (*) during negotiations with other court actors (ex: with screening or plea bargaining); or (*) in practice management choices with clients (ex: with intake, fees, communication). She is also analyzing how defense engage with or collaborate with non-legal stakeholders in order to present evidence, support arguments, bolster negotiations and improve practice management. To learn more about Marianne, please visit LinkedIn, Academia or ResearchGate, or email directly at mquiroue@uottawa.ca

Keramet Reiter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society and at the School of Law at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on prisons, prisoners’ rights, and the impact of prison and punishment policy on individuals, communities, and legal systems. Her book on the history and uses of U.S. supermax prisons, 23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement, will be released by Yale University Press in October 2016. Recent publications include the anthology Extreme Punishment, co-edited with Alexa Koenig; "Reclaiming the Power to Punish" in Law & Society Review in 2016, and “Parole, Snitch, or Die: California’s Supermax Prisons and Prisoners, 1987-2007” in Punishment and Society in 2012.

E-mail: reiterk@uci.edu

Ashley Rubin is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. One trajectory of her research explores the character, causes, and consequences of prisoners' secondary adjustments to prison and their relationship to political resistance. Another trajectory examines prisons as organizations, which requires taking seriously the managerial influences on prisons as distinct from prisons' penal components. Much of her recent work mobilizes neo-institutional theory to understand the dynamics of widespread penal change and to better understand the significance of penal innovations.  Some of her recent publications include, "A Neo-Institutional Account of Prison Diffusion" (Law and Society Review, 2015), winner of the Law and Society Article Prize (2016), and "Resistance or Friction: Understanding the Significance of Prisoners' Secondary Adjustments" (Theoretical Criminology, 2015).

Email: atrubin@hawaii.edu 

Danielle S. Rudes is an Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and the Deputy Director of the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence (ACE!) at George Mason University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Rudes is a qualitative researcher whose methods include ethnographic observation, interviews, and focus groups with over 15 years of experience working with corrections agencies at the federal, state and local county levels including prisons, jails, probation/parole agencies and problem-solving courts. Here reserach largely examines how social control organizations and their middle management and street-level workers understand, negotiate, and at times, resist change. Dr. Rudes experience includes working with community corrections agencies during adoption, adaptation and implementation of various workplace practices and reforms including: contingency management (incentives/rewards/sanctions), risk-needs assessment instruments and motivational interviewing. Dr. Rudes serves as Associate Editor of the journal Victims & Offenders and publishes regularly in journals such as Criminal Justice & Behavior, Federal Probation, Law & Policy and Justice Quarterly. Her work is funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Justice. Dr. Rudes is also the 2012 winner of the Teaching Excellence Award and the 2015 Mentoring Excellence Award at George Mason University.

Joachim J. Savelsberg is a professor of sociology and law and the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair at the University of Minnesota. He teaches courses in the sociology of law and human rights, crime and punishment, sociological theory, and sociology of knowledge. Recent work on human rights crimes and responses to them include: Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015; ““Global Justice, National Distinctions: Criminalizing Human Rights Violations in Darfur”” (with Hollie Nyseth Brehm). American Journal of Sociology 121(2015)2; American Memories: Atrocities and the Law (with Ryan D. King). New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2011; and Crime and Human Rights: Criminology of Genocide and Atrocities. London: Sage, 2010. Publications on punishment, social control, and the role of criminology include: “Law and Collective Memory” (with Ryan D. King) Annual Review of Law and Social Science 3 (2007):189-211; “Institutionalizing Collective Memories of Hate: Law and Law Enforcement in Germany and the United States” (with Ryan D. King) American Journal of Sociology 111 (2005):579-616;  “Period and Cohort Effects in the Production of Scholarly Knowledge: The Case of Criminology, 1951-1993" (with Sarah M. Flood) Criminology 42 (2004):1009-1041. “Knowledge, Domination, and Criminal Punishment Revisited: Incorporating State Socialism.”  Punishment and Society 1(1999):45-70; "Knowledge, Domination, and Criminal Punishment." American Journal of Sociology 99(1994):911-943; "Law That Does Not Fit Society: Sentencing Guidelines as a Neo-Classical Reaction to the Dilemmas of Substantivized Law." American Journal of Sociology 97(1992):1346-81.

Email: savel001@umn.edu

Heather Schoenfeld is an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. She received her doctorate in Sociology from Northwestern University. Her book Building the Prison State: Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration (University of Chicago Press 2018) provides a new perspective on the rise of the carceral state through an examination of crime control politics in Florida. She has authored over a dozen articles and essays on historical and contemporary systems of criminal punishment in a wide variety of journals, including Law & Society Review, Punishment & Society, and the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. Her 2013 award-winning article with Michael Campbell in the American Journal of Sociology compares punishment and politics across eight American states between 1960 and 2001. Ongoing research projects include a NSF-funded comparative analysis of states’ recent efforts to reduce imprisonment. She has served on the editorial boards of Law & Social Inquiry, Criminology and Public Policy, and, currently serves on the editorial board of Punishment and Society. 

Lori Sexton is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.  She has a Ph.D. in Criminology, Law and Society from the University of California, Irvine and an M.A. in Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania.  Lori’s interests lie at the intersection of criminology and sociolegal studies, with a specific focus on prisons, punishment and the lived experience of penal sanctions.  Lori is currently working on a study of the ways in which prisoners experience and make meaning of their punishment (their “penal consciousness”), a project examining the experiences and culture of transgender prisoners, and an implementation evaluation of a community corrections anti-violence initiative in Kansas City.  Lori’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Justice, and has been published in Justice Quarterly and Criminology & Public Policy.

Email: sextonl@umkc.edu 

Jonathan Simon is the Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Center for the Study of Law & Society at UC Berkeley.  Jonathan’s work addresses the role of crime and risk in the governance of contemporary societies.  His books include two award winning monographs Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass (University of Chicago1993, winner of the American Sociological Association’s sociology of law book prize, 1994), and Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear (Oxford University Press 2007, winner of the American Society of Criminology, Hindelang Award 2010).   Other books include The Sage Handbook of Punishment and Society (Sage 2013) (edited with Richard Sparks) and Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America (New Press 2014). Jonathan has served as the editor-in-chief of the journal, Punishment and Society, and is a reviewer for numerous law and society and criminology journals. Follow him on twitter at @jonathansimon59.

Earl Smith, is Emeritus Professor of American Ethnic Studies and Sociology at Wake Forest University.  He currently teaches classes in Sociology, African and African American Studies, and Women and Gender Studies at George Mason University.  He earned his PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Connecticut.  His teaching and research focuses on urban sociology, sociology of sport, criminal justice, and race.  He is the author of 11 books, including his most recent book, published in 2018, Policing the Black Body, as well as dozens of book chapters and peer reviewed articles.  He has written several books on the impact of social inequality on Black families.  His book Race, Sport and the American Dream, which has been published in 3 editions, remains the only book on the market that examines structural racism in SportsWorld. On a regular basis he is consulted as an expert by the New York Times, USA Today, and a variety of other news outlets.  He teaches courses on race and ethnicity, social problems, and race, gender, sexuality and sport.

Peter Scharff Smith holds a Master’s degree in social science and history from Roskilde University (1998). Peters early research focused on Danish collaboration during World War II and he co-authored his first two research monographs while still a student, including the bestseller “Under hagekors og Dannebrog. Danskere i Waffen-SS 1940-45” (1998). After this Peters work became more cross-disciplinary and his PhD. was on prison history and the rise of the modern penitentiary. He became a PhD in 2002 at the University of Copenhagen. His thesis “Moralske hospitaler. Det moderne fængselsvæsens gennembrud 1770-1870” was published in 2003. Since 2003 Peters research has primarily lied within the fields of criminology, sociology of law and history. Peter has throughout his career been doing research at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, the University of Copenhagen, Cambridge University, New York University, The Danish National Archive, Roskilde University, The Royal Danish Defense College and Oslo University. Peter has also worked as Research Director at The Danish Institute for Human Rights. He’s articles has been published in, for example, Crime and Justice, Punishment and Society, and Criminal Justice and Behavior as well as in a wide range of other Scandinavian and international journals. His research monographs and edited collections has been published by Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Brill, Gyldendal and several other publishers. Peter’s latest books are “Prisons, Punishment, and the Family: Towards a New Sociology of Punishment?” (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2018. Co-edited with Rachel Condry) and “Scandinavian Penal History, Culture and Prison Practice: Embraced By the Welfare State?” (Palgrave Macmillan 2017. Co-edited with Thomas Ugelvik).

Tobias Smith is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley. His research examines the conditions under which punishment is restrained or diverted in otherwise punitive regimes, notably China. He is also conducting a long-term qualitative project on the development of the Chinese capital defense bar. He is the co-author, with Su Jiang, of “Making Sense of Life Without Parole in China,” published in Punishment & Society in 2017.

Máximo Sozzo is full Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the National University of Litoral (Santa Fe, Argentina). He is the Director of the Master in Criminology and the Crime and Society Program at this University. He is Adjunct Professor of the School of Justice of the Queensland University of Technology (Birsbane, Australia). He has been a Fellow of the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice of the School of Law of New York University (2010/2011) and Fellow of the Istituto di Studi Avanzati of the Universita degli Studi di Bologna (2016). He has been Visiting Professor at the several Universities (Bologna, Hamburg, Sao Paulo, Central of Chile, National de Colombia, FLACSO Ecuador, Andina Simon Bolivar, etc). He is Editor in Chief of Delito y Sociedad. Revista de Ciencias Sociales (UNL Ediciones) and Associate Editor of Punishment and Society. The International Journal of Penology (Sage). He has published more than 40 articles in scientific journals and 50 book chapters in the field of criminology and punishment and society in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and English. His most recent books are: Kerry Carrington, Russell Hogg, John Scott, Máximo Sozzo and Reece Walters: Southern Criminology (Routledge, 2019); Dario Melossi, José Angel Brandariz and Máximo Sozzo (eds) The Political Economy of Punishment Today. Visions, Debates and Challenges(Routledge, 2018); Kerry Carrington, Russell Hogg, John Scott and Máximo Sozzo (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South(Palgrave, 2018); Máximo Sozzo (ed.): ¿Más Allá de la Cultura del Control? Discutiendo sobre Delito, Pena y Orden social con David Garland (Ad-Hoc, 2018); Máximo Sozzo:  La Inflación Punitiva.Una Exploración Comparativa de las Mutaciones del Derecho Penal en América Latina (1990-2015) (FLACSO Ecuador / IDRC / Café de las Ciudades, 2017); Lila Caimari and Máximo Sozzo (eds.) Historia de la Cuestión Criminal en América Latina (Prohistoria, 2017) and Maximo Sozzo (ed.) Postneoliberalismo y Penalidad en America del Sur (CLACSO, 2016; portuguese translation, CLACSO-Perseu Abramo, 2017). He is the Director of the series of books Nueva Criminologia of Siglo XXI Editores (Argentina) and together with Kerry Carrington of the series of books Perspectives on Crime, Law and Justice in the Global South of Emerald Publishing (UK).

Mary Ellen Stitt is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and a National Science Foundation Doctoral Fellow in Law and Inequality at the American Bar Foundation. Her research investigates the interplay between state punishment, illness, and inequality. Her dissertation examines the impacts of diversion – the provision of mental healthcare within the criminal court system – and its implications for penal net widening and racial inequality. A second line of research focuses on drug markets and policing. Her work has appeared in Social Problems and Social Forces.
Email: mstitt@utexas.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/maryellenstitt/home

Forrest Stuart is an Assistant Professor in Sociology and the College at the University of Chicago. His research investigates how policing impacts daily life in impoverished communities of color. His work has been published in Law and Social Inquiry, Urban Studies, Souls, and The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He is currently working on a book, titled Policing Rock Bottom, which is an ethnographic examination of the implementation and experience of broken windows policing in Los Angeles’ Skid Row district. He teaches courses on urban sociology, crime, ethnography, and theory.

Email: forreststuart@uchicago.edu

Gail Super is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Criminology, University of Cape Town, South Africa.  Her research focuses on Punishment and Democracy; Crime and Punishment in South Africa; Punishment and vigilantism; Neoliberalisation and Crime Control; the Politics of Punishment; Prisons.  Forthcoming and Recent publications include:  Governing through Crime in South Africa: The politics of punishment and race in neo-liberalizing regimes, Ashgate, Advances in Criminology series: Surrey.   ‘Punishment and the body in the 'old' and 'new' South Africa, a story of punitive humanism’, Theoretical Criminology, 15 (4): 427-  443.  ‘Like Some Rough Beast Slouching Towards Bethlehem to be Born: A historical perspective on the institution of the prison in South Africa, 1976-2004’, British Journal of Criminology, January, 51(1): 201-221.  The Spectacle of Crime in the “New” South  Africa: A Historical Perspective (1976-2004)’, British Journal of Criminology, March, 50(2): 165-184.  ‘Prison Labour in Namibia’, in Dunkel, F & Van Zyl Smit, D (eds), Prison Labour – Salvation or Slavery?: International Perspectives, International Series on Law and Society. Aldershot (UK), Brookfield (USA), Singapore and Sydney: Ashgate.

Email: gjs220@nyu.edu 

Alex Tepperman is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Florida. His work focuses on twentieth century penal history – particularly the loosely-defined “First Era of Mass Imprisonment” (1919-1940) – and the social and cultural pre-history of the modern Prisoners’ Rights Movement. He has also worked extensively on broader issues of deviance and social control, co-authoring the 3rd edition of Deviance, Crime, and Control: Beyond the Straight and Narrow (Oxford University, 2013) and contributing to the forthcoming edited volume Carceral Mobilities (Routledge, 2016), in addition to serving as the Editor-in-Chief of Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. He holds Master’s Degrees in Criminology & Sociolegal Studies from the University of Toronto and History from the University of Rochester. 
E-mail: atepperm@ufl.edu

Sarah Turnbull is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo (Canada).. She has published in the areas of immigration detention, deportation, parole and reentry, and punishment.. Sarah researches, teaches, and supervises in the areas of critical border and migration studies and border criminology; criminology and sociolegal studies; punishment, parole, and reentry; postcolonial, antiracist, and feminist thought; and qualitative research methods.. She is also a co-investigator on the Prison Transparency Project, a collaborative study funded initially through a three-year SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, which explores questions of imprisonment and immigration detention, human rights, and carceral transparency and accountability.. Sarah’s book, Parole in Canada: Gender and Diversity in the Federal System (UBC Press, 2016), considers the integration of ‘gender’ and ‘diversity’ into Canadian federal parole policy and practice, and how ideas about ‘difference’ shape penal responses for particular groups of offenders..Connect with Sarah on Twitter or Facebook or visit her profile page..  

Email: s3turnbull@uwaterloo.ca

Paige Vaughn is a PhD student in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. Her research interests include crime control policy, law and society, and race and inequality. Her present research examines responses to violence in disadvantaged and high-crime African American communities. She is collaborating with Michael Campbell (UMSL) and Heather Schoenfeld (Northwestern) on a comparative case study that tracks criminal justice reform efforts in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, and Michigan.

Email: pvwb3@mail.umsl.edu

Anjuli Verma is an Assistant Professor in the Politics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received a Ph.D. in Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine, and was a 2016-17 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program. Her research and teaching interests include: social reactions to crime and deviance; law and organizations; legal mobilization and social movements; and mixed-methods research. Anjuli’s current research examines the causes and effects of deinstitutionalization and decarceration in California, with a focus on legal reform and organizational regulation and compliance processes. During her postdoctoral fellowship, she began a new project that examines the “afterlife” of mass incarceration and how prison displacements affect various dimensions of community health, including among elderly parolees. Anjuli was awarded the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant and the National Institute of Justice Graduate Research Fellowship, and her work has been published in Law & Society Review, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Ethnography, Sociological Perspectives, British Journal of Criminology, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice & Criminology, Oxford Handbook on Prisons and Imprisonment and The American Journal of Bioethics. Before graduate school, Anjuli worked as a policy advocate and communications strategist on drug policy and criminal justice reform issues at the American Civil Liberties Union. She earned a B.A. in Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia and held internships at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama and the National Indian Human Rights Commission in New Delhi. 

Visit: https://politics.ucsc.edu/faculty/index.php?uid=acverma | https://ucsc.academia.edu/AnjuliCatherineVerma 

Email: acverma@ucsc.edu  

Robert Werth is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Rice University. Broadly, his research focuses on punishment, risk/danger, and the ways in which penal subjects are constituted, imagined and represented. His current research explores (a) how individuals on parole experience and navigate state efforts to regulate conduct and personhood and (b) how parole personnel enact parole, including how they understand and engage with the formal goals of community safety, rehabilitation, and reintegration. This project also explores how paroled subjects are assessed, including the ways in which evaluation assembles technical, moral and affective knowledges. His work has appeared in journals such as Punishment & Society, Theoretical Criminology, and the British Journal of Criminology.
Email: rwerth@rice.edu

Monica Williams is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Faculty Advisor to the Community Research Team at Weber State University. Her teaching and research focus on societal responses to sex offenders, social control, and policing. She takes a sociological approach to these issues, using quantitative and qualitative methods to examine how community and societal contexts shape the implementation of law. She is the author of The Sex Offender Housing Dilemma: Community Activism, Safety, and Social Justice (NYU Press, 2018) as well as articles published in Criminology, Law & Social Inquiry, and the Journal of Criminal Justice. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in sex crimes, law and society, policing, and statistics. 

Email: monicawilliams@weber.edu

Website: https://www.weber.edu/mwilliams/home.html

Stephen Wulff is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include social movements, punishment, policing, critical race theory, and qualitative research methods. His research has appeared in the Oxford Handbook of Social Movements and the International Journal of Criminology & Sociology. His dissertation draws on ethnographic, interview, and archival data to map the Twin Cities policing field and the competing stakeholders that comprise it (e.g., grassroots groups, police federation, police departments, civilian review boards, city officials). The multi-sited ethnography investigates how grassroots groups seek to hold police accountable in the post-Ferguson Black Lives Matter police reform era, while also shedding light on the novel police accountability mechanism of private insurance.

Email: wulff039@umn.edu

Marjorie S. Zatz is professor of justice and social inquiry in Arizona State University's School of Social Transformation. She is on leave from her university for two years, serving as director of the Law and Social Sciences program at the National Science Foundation.  Her research addresses the ways in which race, ethnicity, and gender impact juvenile and criminal court processing and sanctioning, immigration policy, Chicano/a gangs, and comparative justice, particularly Latin American legal systems.  She is the author of Producing Legality: Law and Socialism in Cuba (Routledge, 1994) and co-editor of Law and the Quest for Justice (Quid Pro Law, 2013), Punishing Immigrants: Policy, Politics, and Injustice (New York University Press, 2012), Images of Color, Images of Crime (third edition Oxford University Press, 2006; first edition 1998, second edition 2002, Roxbury Publishing Company), and Making Law: The State, the Law, and Structural Contradictions (Indiana University Press, 1993). 
Email:  marjorie.zatz@asu.edu

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