Professor Mary Bosworth
Small Group Project 2018-19
Beyond Critique: reimagining penal power at the border
This proposal sets out to create a video series, accompanying blog posts and two joint-authored articles on alternatives to current practice in border control. This project will provide the empirical and conceptual basis for a future funding application by the two co-applicants. The videos and blogs will be hosted on the Border Criminologies website (https://bordercriminologies.law.ox.ac.uk) to offer a unique intervention, outreach and resource for students, academics and policy makers. The articles will be submitted to a criminology and a sociology journal.
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Biography
Mary Bosworth is Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Cross College. Prof. Bosworth conducts research on the experiences of staff and incarcerated people in prisons and immigration detention centres and about the processes of deportation. Her research is international and comparative and has included work conducted in Britain, France, Greece, the US and Australia. It has been funded by the European Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, the ESRC, the Nuffield Foundation, the Australian Research Council, and the John Fell Fund. Further details about some of these projects can be found on the Border Criminology website. Mary is a member of the editorial boards of Theoretical Criminology, Incarceration, Punishment & Society, and the International Journal of Migration and Border Studies.
Biographical details correct as of 11.05.26