Mary Francesca Bosworth is an Australian 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), (with Carolyn Hoyle) the edited book ''What is Criminology?'' (2011), (with Katja Aas) the edited book The Borders of Punishment (2013) and Inside Immigration Detention (2014). Mary Bosworth is UK Editor-in-Chief of the journal '' Theoretical Criminology''.

Life

Bosworth studied arts at the

University of Western Australia The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany and various other facilitie ...

. She then attended the

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where she gained an MPhil and a doctoral degree in criminology. She worked in the United States for eight years, returning to the United Kingdom in 2004. She is currently Professor of Criminology and Fellow of St Cross College at the

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in England as well as Professor in the school of Social Sciences at

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in Melbourne, Australia.

Work

Bosworth has published a number of papers and books on race, gender and citizenship, particularly on prisons and immigration detention. Her research is international and comparative. She has worked in Paris, Britain, the USA and Australia. 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. In summer 2012 Bosworth was awarded a 5-year European Research Council Starter Grant.

Bibliography

* * * * * * * Katja Aas, Mary Bosworth (2013). ''Borders of Punishment: Migration, Citizenship and Social Exclusion''. Oxford University Press, UK. .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bosworth, Mary Living people Australian criminologists Australian women criminologists University of Western Australia alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge Monash University faculty Fellows of St Cross College, Oxford Australian sociologists Australian women sociologists Year of birth missing (living people)