Mary Francesca Bosworth

Mary Francesca Bosworth
Mary Francesca Bosworth
Language English
Nationality Australian
Alma mater University of Western Australia
Genres Criminology

Mary Francesca Bosworth is a criminologist who is interested in imprisonment, race, and gender. She is the author of a number of books, including Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women’s Prisons (1999), Explaining U.S. Imprisonment (2010) and, (with Carolyn Hoyle) the edited book What is Criminology? (2011). Mary Bosworth is currently co-editor of the journal Theoretical Criminology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_Criminology.[1]

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Life

Bosworth studied arts at the University of Western Australia. She then attended the University of Cambridge where she gained a doctoral degree in criminology. She worked in the United States for eight years, returning to the United Kingdom in 2004. As of 2011 she was Reader in Criminology and Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford in England as well as Professor in the school of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.[2]

Work

Bosworth has published a number of papers and books on race, gender and citizenship, particularly on prisons and immigration detention.[2] Her research is international and comparative. She has worked in Paris, Britain, the USA and Australia.[3] In all her work Bosworth examines how individuals negotiate the institutional constraints of their confinement and how that confinement reinforces and is reinforced by their prior experience of poverty, violence and abuse.[4]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Mary F. Bosworth". SAGE Publications. http://www.sagepub.com/authorDetails.nav?contribId=463170. Retrieved 2011-06-27. 
  2. ^ a b "Professor Mary Bosworth". Monash University. http://arts.monash.edu.au/criminology/staff/mary-bosworth.php. 
  3. ^ "Mary Bosworth". Center for Criminology, Faculty of Law, Oxford University. http://www.crim.ox.ac.uk/profile.php?who=mary.bosworth. Retrieved 2011-06-27. 
  4. ^ Stuart Henry, Dragan Milovanovic (1999). Constitutive criminology at work: applications to crime and justice. SUNY Press. p. 13. ISBN 0791441946. http://books.google.ca/books?id=EzAY7SjXF8EC&pg=PA13. 

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