Border Criminologies - Advisory Group
Katja Franko, Professor of Criminology, University of Oslo, Norway
Katja has published widely in globalization, borders, security, and surveillance of everyday life. She is the author of Cosmopolitan Justice and its Discontents (co-edited with C. Baillet, Routledge, 2011), Technologies of Insecurity (co-edited with H.M. Lomell and H.O. Gundhus, Routledge-Cavendish, 2009), Globalization and Crime (Sage, 2012), and Sentencing in the Age of Information: From Faust to Macintosh (Routledge-Cavendish, 2005). She is currently heading an ERC Starting Grant project ‘Crime Control in the Borderlands of Europe’.
Hindpal Singh Bhui, Inspection Team Leader, HM Inspectorate of Prisons, UK
Hindpal is an Inspection Team Leader at HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) where he heads inspection of the immigration detention estate in the United Kingdom. He has helped to train prison monitors from a number of countries. He was formerly a probation officer and a criminal justice lecturer. He was editor of the Probation Journal from 1997 to 2007. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on prisons, probation, foreign prisoners and immigration detention and an edited book on Race and Criminal Justice (Sage). His PhD research focused on issues of legitimacy and coherence in the management of foreign prisoners and immigration detainees.
Ana Aliverti, Professor of Law, University of Warwick, UK
Ana's research examines the intersections between criminal law and criminal justice, on the one hand, and border regimes, on the other, exploring the impact of their entanglements on criminal justice institutions and on those subject to the resulting sets of controls. Ana is currently leading two projects. The first, with colleagues Anastasia Chamberlen and Henrique Carvalho, explores the ambivalent emotional and affective economies of state power in the governance of social marginality. The second, on border controls and humanitarianism, with Elisa García España and Roberto Dufraix, explores then conflicting demands of border work and the emotional and moral pains it creates for frontline staff in Dover (UK), Ceuta (Spain) and Colchane (Chile).
Jennifer Chacón, Bruce Tyson Mitchell Professor of Law, Stanford University, USA
Jennifer researches the intersection of criminal and immigration law and enforcement. Her work has explored the regulation of human trafficking and the securitization of immigration law. She is the co-author of the immigration law textbook Immigration Law and Social Justice, now in its second edition, and the co-author of Legal Phantoms (Stanford University Press, 2024), which explores how the past decade’s shifting immigration policies have shaped, and been shaped by, immigrant communities and organizations in Southern California. She has written dozens of articles, book chapters, and essays on immigration, criminal law, constitutional law, and citizenship issues. Her research has been funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the University of California.
Susan Bibler Coutin, Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Anthropology, School of Social Ecology, University of California Irvine, USA
Susan researches social, political, and legal activism surrounding immigration issues, particularly immigration from El Salvador to the United States. She is currently completing a book manuscript that explores the power and limitations of nation-based categories of membership through the experiences of 1.5 generation migrants, that is, individuals who were born in El Salvador but raised in the United States. With Justin Richland (UCI and University of Chicago) Susan is also conducting research regarding archival practices in immigrant and indigenous advocacy. This project examines how the production, retrieval, and circulation of records and files figures in Central and Native Americans’ efforts to secure recognition, whether as immigrants or in the form of tribal status, and thus seeks to make visible the regulatory practices that shape the lives of some of the U.S.’s most exceptional, and thereby vulnerable, populations.
Paul Crossey, Governor at HMP Maidstone and Deputy Editor of the Prison Service Journal
Paul is Governor at HMP Maidstone and Deputy Editor of the Prison Service Journal. HMP Maidstone is one of only two prisons exclusively holding foreign national offenders, in the UK. Paul has been an editorial board member of the Prison Service Journal since 2008 and Deputy Editor since 2014. Paul has written numerous articles and reviews and edited special editions of the Prison Service Journal covering areas such as: the impact of closing prisons, young people in custody and offender mentoring. A psychology graduate, Paul holds an MBA from the University of Leicester and an MSt in Applied Penology from the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge.
Catherine Dauvergne, KC, Professor of Law, University of British Columbia, Canada
Catherine researches in the areas of immigration, refugee and citizenship law. Much of Caetherine's work engages with feminist critiques of the law, and the place of women in immigration, refugee and citizenship laws.
Alison Mountz, Professor and Associate Vice-Principal of Research and Innovation-Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships, University of Toronto, Scarborough
Alison’s research explores how people cross borders, access asylum, survive detention, resist war, and create safe havens. She is currently leading a new project called 'Asylum's Afterlives'. She also directs a lab called 'Haven: The Asylum Lab, designed to preserve and provide access to migration-related data.
Sharon Pickering, Professor of Criminology, Monash University, Australia
Sharon researches irregular border crossing and has written in the areas of refugees and trafficking with a focus on gender and human rights. She is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow on Border Policing, Gender, Human Rights and Security. Her recent books include Sex Work (with Maher and Gerard, Routledge, 2012); Women, Borders and Violence (Springer, 2011); Sex Trafficking (with Segrave and Miliovjevic, Willan, 2009).
Anna Pratt, Associate Professor of Criminology, Department of Social Science, York University, Canada
Anna’s research explores immigration penality in Canada. She is the author ofSecuring Borders: Detention and Deportation in Canada (UBC Press, 2005). She has carried out a major study of frontline border control in Canada and has published findings that interrogate the law/discretion binary, the enabling effects of administrative discretion, racial profiling and the production and transmission of heterogeneous risk knowledges on the frontline and in the courts. Anna has also examined the introduction of bordering technologies that mobilize vigilant citizens and communities in Canada, such as the CBSA Most Wanted List. Her current research explores the mechanisms of administrative discretion, jurisdiction and scale in relation to criminality-based deportations from Canada, paying close attention to the effects of judicial discretion.
John Speyer, Director, Hear Me Out
John has been Director of Hear me Out (previously Music in Detention) since 2008. Before that he ran a community regeneration organisation in Sheffield which provided a variety of services to help excluded and vulnerable people improve their lives. Previously he was a primary school teacher and Deputy head. As a volunteer, John has worked to promote Human Rights and to challenge extremism and xenophobia.
Vanessa Barker, Professor of Sociology, Stockholm University
Vanessa's research focuses on questions of democracy and penal order, the welfare state and border control, the criminalization and penalization of migrants, and the role of civil society in penal reform. She works within a historical sociological tradition and teaches courses on qualitative methods, globalization, and ethnicity. She serves on the Board of Trustees for the Law & Society Association, as Co-editor for the Howard Journal of Crime & Justice, as a book review editor for Punishment & Society, and on the board of Theoretical Criminology. She studied and worked in the US before moving to Sweden.