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The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology

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EMERALD STUDIES IN ACTIVIST CRIMINOLOGY

Series Editors: Vicky Canning (University of Bristol), Greg Martin (University of Sydney) and Steve Tombs (The Open University)

Emerald Studies in Activist Criminology is a platform working to identify and address the harms of criminalisation and expansive social controls. It draws together academics, activists, progressive policy-makers, and practitioners to encourage cutting-edge engagement on topics to effect positive social change.

The historical relationships between criminology and activism are contentious. Since criminology in its administrative forms can facilitate increases in state and cultural controls, and was formed within this nexus of social order, the discipline is often complicit in acting on behalf of states and state corporate collaborators. Critical criminology and zemiology, by contrast, have nurtured conditions under which power and hierarchy can be more fully addressed from radical perspectives, specifically in challenging state-centric focuses on crimes of the powerless. It is from these positions that Emerald Studies in Activist Criminology encourages engagement with those working against the negative impacts of crime controls on the lives of intersectionally disadvantaged groups in society.

Emerald Studies in Activist Criminology seeks to examine the history of both recent and more established justice campaigns and interventions. It extends across a range of pre-existing sub-fields of criminology that engage in questions of effecting progressive change through activism, such as feminist criminology, juvenile justice, migrant rights, corporate and state crime, green/environmental criminology, sentencing and wrongful conviction, prisons, corrections and abolitionism, and justice for victim/survivors of harm and crime. Campaigns and movements – defensive and progressive – around these issues define what we mean by ‘activist’, while we view ‘criminology’ in its broadest, interdisciplinary and social science-inflected version.

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Emerald Studies in Activist Criminology

The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology

Edited by

VICTORIA CANNING

University of Bristol, UK

GREG MARTIN

University of Sydney, Australia

AND

STEVE TOMBS

The Open University, UK

Foreword by

ONWUBIKO AGOZINO

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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The editors and contributors are to be congratulated for providing an urgent and much needed critical response to the global politics of harm and the local practices of violence that swirl around, in and through our collective psyches and our interdependent humanity. This Handbook is an indispensable criminological resource for activists, academics, policy professionals and students of justice.

—Bruce A. Arrigo, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

This groundbreaking book sets the tone for the criminological debate, making it clear that science can no longer be understood in isolation from social change. Crime, punishment and social control shape the lives of the most vulnerable sections of society, and their voices demand to be included in any transformative project that genuinely seeks to overturn existing injustices. The book raises this demand from a decolonial and intersectional perspective that includes Indigenous, abolitionist, transfeminist and Southern perspectives that make clear that Western-centred solutions are neither epistemically nor empirically sufficient to promote real transformation.

—Valeria Vegh Weis, Researcher, Konstanz University, Germany

This Handbook constitutes a fundamental milestone and essential reading for all those in the criminological field who, beyond traditional views, claim a style of knowledge production politically committed to the current struggles for transformation and social justice.

—Máximo Sozzo, National University of Litoral, Argentina

The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology is a timely collection of cutting-edge contributions by established and emerging activist researchers and advocates. These are bold and creative interventions from a range of diverse perspectives, all unified with the common objective of resisting the epistemic violence of a discipline traditionally tethered to state and increasingly corporate research agendas that continue to be implicated in and directly reproduce social injustice, violence and harm. Together, they compose a bold and comprehensive response to a frequently asked question: should criminology be abolished? This book is an important, instructional and heartening manual for the growing number of radically oriented and activist researchers struggling on the margins of the discipline to build meaningful community, solidarity and intervention that result in genuine structural change and the dismantling of injustice and social harm.

—Bree Carlton, University of Melbourne, Australia

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Contents

About the Authors

Onwubiko Agozino is a Professor of Sociology at Virginia Tech and a scholar-activist, who values inclusive excellence and diversity with critical attention focused on people of African descent and other marginalised groups around the world. He emphasises race, class, and gender issues in his contributions to learning, discovery, and community engagement beyond the boundaries of the classroom.

Marcos César Alvarez is a Brazilian Sociologist, Professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of São Paulo. He develops teaching, research, and extension activities in the domains of social theory and methodologies, especially the Sociology of Punishment and Social Control, focusing on the Brazilian historical and social context. He is the Coordinator of the Center for the Study of Violence. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5984-9082

Luke Amadi holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Port Harcourt. He is a Distinguished International Scholar. He is recipient of the prestigious Elsevier Open Science Research Award, 2022, to celebrate his contribution to open science research for his article ‘Globalization and the Changing Liberal International Order: A Review of the Literature’ linked to the UN SDGs (SDGs 10 & 13) and between 2020 and 2021, it received a total of 38,136 downloads, helping to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges. He has presented papers in international conferences across the continent including recently-the 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, LDC Future Forum: 5–7 October 2021, Helsinki, Finland. His most recent edited volume, Decolonizing Colonial Development Models: A New Postcolonial Critique (with Prof. Fidellis Allen), was published in early 2022 by Rowman and Littlefield (Lexington Books) Maryland, USA. He has articles in scholarly journals. His works have been a primer for PhD, Masters, and undergraduate students of leading Universities across Europe, North America, and Asia. His research interest intersects Social Activism, Ecological Justice, Security, International Political Economy, Sustainable Development Studies, and African Politics. He is a Member of various professional bodies including the Development Studies Association of Ireland (DSAI). He is presently Guest Editor at the Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK and Deputy Director at the Educational Support and Development Initiatives for the Less Privileged, Nigeria.

Thalia Anthony is an Activist and Academic who lives, works, and brings up her children on the sovereign lands of the Eora Nation. She is on the Board of Deadly Connections Community and Justice Services and a Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney where she researches systemic colonial injustices against First Nations people and imagines a world without oppressive structures.

Lynzi Armstrong is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. She is a Feminist Criminologist, and her research is broadly focused on gender, sexuality, and justice. She has a strong interest in sex workers’ rights, sexual violence, anti-trafficking discourses, stigma, and the impacts of laws on marginalised populations. She is Co-editor of Sex Work and the New Zealand Model: Decriminalisation and Social Change, published by Bristol University Press in 2020.

Ilaria Aversa is a PhD candidate at the University of Kent. Her main interests are crimmigration and alternative urban governance of migration. They are regularly involved in bottom-up and community-led initiatives on the working-class Roman territory in Italy. She also tutors the Roma Tre Law Clinic and Co-supervise the students’ work on the Statewatch Frontex Observatory, as well as undertaking further research on legal actions against Frontex at the European Court of Justice.

Cormac Behan teaches Criminology at the School of Social Sciences, Law, and Education, Technological University Dublin, Ireland. His research interests include penal history, prisoners’ rights movements, comparative penology, and prison education. From 1997 to 2011, he taught politics and history in Irish prisons. He is the author of several publications on prisoners’ rights movements, including ‘“We are all convicted criminals”? Prisoners, Protest and Penal Politics in the Republic of Ireland’, Journal of Social History (2018) and ‘Putting Penal Reform on the Map: Prisoners’ Rights Movements and Penal History’, Champ Pénal/Penal Field (2020).

Joanne Belknap is Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, a past President of the American Society of Criminology, and the Author of the book, The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and Justice (currently in its 5th edition). She coined the term ‘activist criminology’ in her ASC Presidential address in 2014 (published in the journal Criminology in 2015). She has received many awards for her research, teaching, and university and community service, and taught college classes in both men’s and women’s prison. Her current research projects are primarily on the precarceral sexual abuse of women in prison. She is the most proud of the many undergraduate and graduate students she mentored, her community activism, and her publications with former students, activists, and practitioners.

Chloé Branders holds a PhD in Criminology and is a Lecturer at UCLouvain (Belgium) and the Catholic University of Lille (France). Her research interests focus on penal institutions, youth support services, social intervention, activism, and art. In her PhD research, she explored ethnographic methods’ use in prisons and studied theatre both as a Subversive Activity in detention settings and as an Epistemological Tool in criminology. She has led several collective theatre projects in prisons, as well as in an institution for youth offenders. She initiated Inside-Out, an educational program in criminology which allows students to approach the reality of the prison world by implementing theatre in detention settings. She is a Member of GENEPI Belgium, an Activist Organisation focused on prison issues. She also works as an Editor for impACT, the Theatre Action Centre journal (Belgium), which publishes critical analyses of social and political theatre practices.

Linda Briskman holds the Margaret Whitlam Chair of Social Work at Western Sydney University in Australia. Previous academic appointments include Professor of Human Rights at Swinburne University and Dr Haruhisa Handa Chair of Human Rights Education, Curtin University. Her areas of research and activism include Indigenous rights, asylum seeker rights, and challenging Islamophobia. She publishes extensively in each of these areas. Her most recent books are the co-authored Human Rights and Social Work: Towards Rights-based Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and the co-edited Indigenous Health Ethics: An Appeal to Human Rights (World Scientific, 2021).

Victoria Canning is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Bristol. She is currently Head of the Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice, Associate Director in Border Criminologies at Oxford University, and Trustee of Statewatch. She has published and edited various books and articles, including Gendered Harm and Structural Violence in the British Asylum System (2017), From Social Harm to Zemiology (2021, with Steve Tombs), and Stealing Time: Migration, Temporalities and State Violence (2021, with Monish Bhatia). She is Co-creator of the Right to Remain Asylum Navigation Board (with Lisa Matthews) and acted as Academic Consultant on the BAFTA award-winning series Exodus: Our Journey to Europe.

Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti is a British-Brazilian Principal Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Brighton, UK, where she currently also works as an Ambassador for early career researchers. Her research focuses on examining and contesting the criminalisation of poverty and dissent. She has written about violence, feminism, cities, criminology, police violence, and insecurity. Her work is centred on issues of (in)justice, human rights, and the theorising interlocking social inequalities relating to class, gender, race, and ethnicity in Latin America.

Vicki Chartrand is a mama and Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at Bishop’s University, Québec, which is the traditional and unceded territory of the Abenaki people. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa, Criminology Department and Director of the Centre for Justice Exchange (https://justiceexchange.ca/). Her general research includes penal and carceral politics, modern-day colonialism, community justice, and collaborative methodologies. She has over 20 years of experience collaborating for and with women and children, Indigenous communities, and people in prison. Pm8wzowinnoak Bishop’s kchi adalagakidimek aoak kzalziwi w8banakii aln8baïkik.

Jodie M. Dewey is a Research Scientist with Chestnut Health System’s Lighthouse Institute in Chicago, IL. Having worked and studied extensively in the criminal legal system, she pushes for community-led, equity-focused, and inclusive education for police and others employed by the legal system. With considerable personal and research knowledge on the challenges faced by transgender people navigating multiple points in the criminal justice process, she develops anti-racist and anti-sexist curricula and trainings, and supports institutional efforts to implement equitable policies and data instruments.

Giulia Ferranti is currently a Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice at the University of Bristol. She completed her undergraduate degree in Criminology at the University of Durham and her master’s degree in Criminological Research at the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral project, supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK Research and Innovation), explores the politics and harms of migrant illegalisation in the Italian context. She has held the role of regional team lead at SolidariTee, and now volunteers for the Legislative Assembly, the body of democratic representation, and the Guarantor for the Rights of People Detained or Deprived of their Liberty in the Emilia Romagna region in Italy.

Tal Fitzpatrick is an Israeli born Australian Artist, Craftivist and Researcher based on the unceded lands of the Kombumerri families of the Yugambeh language region. She holds a PhD in Visual Art from the Victorian College of the Arts (2018) and a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours from Griffith University (2010). She is best known for her work in the field of craftivism and, along with collaborators such as Kate Just and Stephanie Dunlap, has led several global craftivism projects. Her academic work has been included in various publications including Care Ethics and Craft (J. Milner & G. Coombs, 2022) and Crafting Dissent: Handicraft as Protest from the American Revolution to the Pussycats (H. Mandell, 2020). Her self-published works include a series of catalogues and a craftivism handbook titled Craftivism: A Manifesto/Methodology (2018).

Stephanie Fohring is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Northumbria University in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK. Prior to this position she worked as a Criminology Lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University and completed both her PhD and a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh. Her research is victim focused with a particular interest in psychological aspects of victimisation, victimisation surveys, victim labelling, victim experiences of reporting crime and the criminal justice system, violence against women, vicarious trauma, and post-traumatic growth.

Alejandro Forero-Cuéllar obtained PhD. in Law and Political Science from the University of Barcelona. Lecturer of Criminal Law and Criminology. Researcher of the Observatory of the Penal System and Human Rights and Coordinator of the System of Documentation and Communication of Institutional Violence (SIRECOVI). He regularly visits and monitors prisons, and interviews people in prison, denounces institutional violence and promotes psychosocial, social, and legal support to them and their families.

Liv S. Gaborit is a Former Researcher, who left academia to work as a Clinical Psychologist and as an Activist committed to supporting the struggle of the people in Myanmar. She holds a Master of Science in Psychology from Copenhagen University, a PhD in Social Sciences from Roskilde University, and a postdoctoral fellow in Social Anthropology at Lund University. She has extensive experience with the use of ethnographic methods and participatory action research. Her research was focused on prisons in the global south and covers topics such as experiences of imprisonment and prisons as a lens through which to understand societal changes and prison reform. She was a postdoctoral researcher while the 2021 military coup took place in Myanmar. When reflecting upon her own role as a researcher in the aftermath of the coup she decided to continue her involvement with Myanmar solely as an activist. To do so, she co-founded the grassroots organisation Myanmar Action Group Denmark with a group of activists in Denmark. She now serves as a Board Member of the group and continues to support the people of Myanmar in their fight for peace and democracy.

Tim Goddard is Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida International University, USA. He is Co-author of the book Youth, Community and the Struggle for Social Justice (with Randy Myers, Routledge, 2018), which examines 12 US-based organisations that put forward alternative youth justice interventions aimed at raising individual and community consciousness of the relationship between poverty, racism, and neoliberal carceralism.

David Rodríguez Goyes is a Colombo-Norwegian Writer and Scholar focused on crime, violence, and victimhood. He has interviewed hundreds of perpetrators, victims, and policy-makers in the more than 10 years he has worked in the field. He participated in the Colombian peace process as a rapporteur, interviewing victims of war and members of the guerrillas. In 2018, he earned his PhD degree in criminology from the University of Oslo. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at the same institution.

Gustavo Lucas Higa is a Brazilian Sociologist, currently a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of São Paulo. He has a scholarship from the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (Fapesp) and is a Researcher at the Center for the Study of Violence. His research focuses on historical sociology, documentary research, sociology of violence, punishment, authoritarianism, human rights, discourse analysis, and moral panics.

Lily Horsfield, MSc Student, University of St Andrews, is a graduate of Northumbria University’s BA in International Relations and Politics and is currently pursuing her postgraduate studies in MSc International Development Practice at University of St Andrews. Following on from her interest in inequality, marginalisation, and development, her Masters dissertation examines the ways in which Brexit has intensified the hostile environment’s impacts on EU migrants in the UK.

Becka Hudson is a Doctoral Student and Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck College and University College London. Her research looks at the use of psychiatric assessment tools in British prisons, and how these tools affect things like release, treatment in prison, and ideas about ‘risk’. Prior to undertaking research, she worked in community and political campaigning for many years, addressing issues ranging from housing to policing to gendered violence. She occasionally writes and appears in popular media to discuss criminal justice issues.

Imoh Imoh-Ita holds a PhD in Public Administration from the University of Uyo and another in Development Studies from the University of Port Harcourt both in Nigeria. He is currently Dean Students Affairs and Head of Department of Public Administration at the Akwa Ibom State University, Nigeria. He has published in reputable journals, contributed book chapters, and presented papers in local and international conferences. He is a Member of several professional bodies including American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA), and National, Association of Nigeria Public Administration (ANPA). His research interest is at the intersection of public administration and development studies, focusing on how the politics of administration and governance has historically shaped development. He is married to his darling wife with three lovely kids. He is a Fitness Enthusiast with International Sports Science Association (ISSA) certification. He is a Devout Christian and Social Influencer.

Keir Irwin-Rogers is a Senior Lecturer at The Open University. His research centres on the health and wellbeing of children and young people. He has given evidence to numerous Parliamentary Committees and was the lead Criminologist to the cross-party parliamentary Youth Violence Commission, co-authoring its final report. He has recently co-authored Against Youth Violence: A Social Harm Perspective, which explores various social harms in children’s lives and critiques current responses to these pressing social problems.

Will Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Justice Studies and a Member of the Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation and Social Exclusion (CCSE) at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. His research is focused on the nature and regulation of political activism. His recent work has two strands: firstly, examining the policing of protest in the UK since 2013, and secondly, exploring the potential of arts-based activism for criminological inquiry. He is Co-editor of Destroy Build Secure: Readings on Pacification (Red Quill Books, 2017).

Amy M. Magnus is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Criminal Justice at California State University, Chico, CA, USA. She is the Author/Co-author of recent works related to the intersection of rural vulnerability and activism, including but not limited to, ‘Saviors and Services: The Interface of Neoliberal Deprivation, Hegemonic Christianity, Social Exclusion, and Rural Church Resource Provision’ (with Alyse Sherrick, Rural Sociology, 2022) and ‘Reimagining Access to Justice Through the Eyes of Rural Domestic Violence Survivors’ (with Frank Donohue, Theoretical Criminology, 2021).

Hanna Maria Malik, Dr Iur, LLM. (Frankfurt am Main), Msc., PostDoc researcher at the University of Turku, Finland, has studied social harms generated at the state–corporate technology nexus and regulatory responses to these harms, through comparative legal and qualitative empirical methodologies. In her doctoral research Malik critically analysed corporate criminal liability laws in Poland and Germany. In her postdoctoral research she has focused on harms resulting from Europeanisation and flexibilisation processes such as labour exploitation as well as social harms associated with AI-transformation and digitalisation of public and private domains.

Greg Martin is Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has published widely in criminology, law, and sociology, and is author of Understanding Social Movements (Routledge, 2015), Crime, Media and Culture (Routledge, 2019), and Co-editor of Secrecy, Law and Society (Routledge, 2015). He is Founding Co-editor of the book series, Emerald Studies in Activist Criminology, an Associate Editor of Crime Media Culture, and a Member of the Editorial Boards of Social Movement Studies and The Sociological Review.

Lisa Matthews is Coordinator at Right to Remain. She has worked at Right to Remain since 2011. Her previous experience is in providing psychosocial support to refugees in Cairo, mental health community outreach with London’s Somali and Bangladeshi communities, asylum and immigration legal casework, integration case management with refugees, and asylum advice.

Dave McDonald is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He lives and works on the land of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. A cultural criminologist, he researches social and legal responses to child sexual abuse, with a particular interest in non-legal forms of justice. His current research explores unofficial forms of acknowledgment, and how these function as counter-archives of institutional violence against children.

Alyce McGovern is an Associate Professor of Criminology in the School, of Law, Society and Criminology, Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW Sydney. She lives and works on unceded Bidjigal land. Her research explores intersecting themes of crime, media and culture, including police public relations work and police use of social media, and knitting graffiti and craftivism. She is the Author of Craftivism and Yarn Bombing: A Criminological Exploration (2019, Palgrave), and Co-author of Policing and Media: Public Relations, Simulations and Communications (2013, Routledge) and Sexting and Young People (2015, Palgrave).

Will McGowan is a Lecturer in the School of Justice Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation and Social Exclusion (CCSE) at Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK. His current research interests span two areas: violence, death, and bereavement; and, relatedly, social theory, social science methodology, and the sociology of the social sciences. Working within the CCSE as a creative and participatory research centre, he is interested in furthering an engagement with theory and method between academics, activists, practitioners, and public beyond the university. One strand of this work concerned with affecting social change is Criminological Artivism, which he is working on with CCSE colleagues Will Jackson and Emma Murray.

Emma Murray is a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice at the School of Justice Studies and Member of the Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation and Social Exclusion (CCSE) at Liverpool John Moores University. Her work has been dedicated to reimagining the military veteran in public, political, and criminological discourse. As Criminologist in Residence at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), she is responsible for aligning critical social science with participatory art practices to empower participants and engage audiences in new ways. Concerned with how artworks can influence change, she explores the potential of Criminological Artivism through knowledge exchange activities which bring social scientists, artists, artistic producers, public campaigners, criminal justice staff, and armed forces communities in the criminal justice system, together.

Marília de Nardin Budó, PhD, Brazilian, full-time Assistant Professor (tenured) at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil, Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Law in the Law Department, Visiting Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Barcelona, Spain (2016, 2018), and Visiting Scholar at the Catolique University of Leuven (2022). Research has been featured in the Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime, European Journal of Criminology, and Brazilian Journal of Criminal Sciences. Book publications include Mass Media and Discourses of Power Revan (2018) [original: Mídias e discursos do poder] and Media and Social Control Revan (2013) [original: Mídia e controle social] as an author, and Introduction to Green Criminology: Critical, Southern, and Decolonial Perspectives [original: Introdução à criminologia verde: Perspectivas críticas, decoloniais e do Sul] Tirant Brasil (2022), Co-edited with Lorenzo Natali, D. Rodriguez Goyes, R. Sollund, and A. Brisman.

Lorenzo Natali is currently an Associate Professor of Criminology at the School of Law, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. His research focuses on violent crime, symbolic and radical interactionism, green criminology, narrative criminology, and qualitative and interdisciplinary approaches, including visual methodologies. He is the Author of A Visual Approach for Green Criminology. Exploring the Social Perception of Environmental Harm (Palgrave, 2016), Cosmologías Violentas. Itinerarios Criminológicos (with Adolfo Ceretti) (Marcial Pons, 2016), and Green Criminology: Prospettive Emergenti sui Crimini Ambientali (Giappichelli, 2015). Co-edited with M. de Nardin Budó, D. Rodriguez Goyes, R. Sollund, and A. Brisman, Introdução à Criminologia Verde: Perspectivas Críticas, Descoloniais e do Sul, Tirant Brasil (2022).

Aidan O’Sullivan is a Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University. He gained his PhD in Sociology from the University of Liverpool. His research interests include social movements and state repression and surveillance.

Jessica C. Oldfield is a PhD candidate in Criminology at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She lives and works on the land of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. Her research is concerned with the experiences of survivors of sexual assault in the post-#MeToo era, with a focus on survivors’ relationships with anonymity and public speech.

Alejandra Portillos is a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado-Boulder in the Ethnic Studies Department. They are active in the broader Colorado community through volunteering with various immigration and human rights organisations. Their current research projects focus on the intersections around immigration and migration enforcement, Latinx/Chicanx studies, and queer and BIPoC trans critique. Their research advocates for radical changes of deportation and detainment procedures that negatively affect queer and trans-Latinx communities.

Iñaki Rivera-Beiras, PhD in Law from the University of Barcelona, Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology and Director of the Observatory of the Criminal System and Human Rights of the University of Barcelona. He has been Visiting Professor at several European and Latin American universities and Recipient of the National Human Rights Award granted by the Asociación pro Derechos Humanos de España (Human Rights Association of Spain) (2020). He has dedicated more than 30-year fighting for decarceration and promoting inmates’ human rights, and has visited many prisons around the world advocating for the respect of human rights and measures to reduce the prison population, especially those vulnerable.

Ayse Sargin is an interdisciplinary researcher and activist. Her recent work focuses on the contestations surrounding renewable energy development and the politics of just transition. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Essex and previously held teaching appointments at the University of Essex and SOAS University of London.

Rachel Seoighe is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Kent. Her work is collaborative, community-focused, and invested in transformative social change. Working from an abolitionist, feminist, and decolonial perspective, and using creative, innovative, and reflexive methodologies, her academic work examines memory practices, state violence, and resistance.

Anna Berti Suman is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy. She is the Principal Researcher of the project ‘Sensing for Justice’ aimed at exploring the potential of civic monitoring as a source of evidence for environmental litigation and as a tool to foster environmental mediation. She is Qualified Barrister under the Bar of Rome, affiliated with ‘Systasis – Study Centre for the Management of Environmental Conflicts’, Milan. She obtained her PhD from the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, The Netherlands. Her PhD project aimed at investigating how civic monitoring influences the governance of environmental health risk. She has work and research experience in environmental litigation and water conflicts in Europe, the USA, and Latin America. She authored ‘The Policy Uptake of Citizen Sensing’ (Edward Elgar 2021) and ‘The Right to Water in Latin America’ (Brill 2018).

Steve Tombs is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Open University. He has a long-standing interest in the incidence, nature, and regulation of corporate and state crime and harm. His most recent books are From Social Harm to Zemiology (with Victoria Canning, 2021), Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful. Marxism, Crime and Deviance (with Steven Bittle, Laureen Snider and David Whyte, 2018), Social Protection After the Crisis (2016), and The Corporate Criminal: Why Corporations Must Be Abolished (with David Whyte, 2015). He has long collaborated with Hazards and The Institute of Employment Rights, and is a Trustee and Deputy Chair of the Board of INQUEST.

Foreword

By Onwubiko Agozino

Virginia Tech