简介

My current research focuses upon four areas. The first centers upon emergent work in carceral studies. Here, I explore the role of culture, affect, and emotion in the lived life of carceral regimes, a set of projects that builds upon ten years of fieldwork in settings of mass incarceration, including interviews with prisoners, prison workers, and victims; their families; and activists. This research also involves a theoretical examination of disparate penal formations in global neoliberal contexts, work that traces the relationships between prisons, detention centers, border zones, conflict and disaster dislocation, refugee and concentration camps. A second area focuses upon the study of law and society, specifically the role of law in moderating life and death. I am interested in court decision making and justice claims that take up such issues as right to die debates, capital punishment, abortion, statelessness, political violence, and mass killing. A third area of study explores the emergent area of visual criminology and its relationship to violence, vulnerability, and ocular logics of the state. Finally, in all of this, I give attention to the limits and possibilities of rethinking our current frameworks in relation to transformative justice.