- Mary Francesca Bosworth
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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
- Mary Bosworth (1999). Engendering resistance: agency and power in women's prisons. Ashgate. ISBN 1840147393.
- Mary Bosworth (2002). The U.S. federal prison system. SAGE. ISBN 0761923047. http://books.google.ca/books?id=qfFZNOH-rGkC&printsec=frontcover.
- Mary Bosworth (2005). Encyclopedia of prisons and correctional facilities. Sage Publications. ISBN 076192731X.
- Mary Bosworth, Jeanne Flavin (2007). Race, gender, and punishment: from colonialism to the war on terror. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0813539048.
- Mary Bosworth (2010). "Explaining U.S. Imprisonment". SAGE. ISBN 1412924871. http://books.google.ca/books?id=Fvll4fVNx14C&printsec=frontcover.
- Mary Bosworth, Carolyn Hoyle (2011). What Is Criminology?. Oxford University Press US. ISBN 0199571821. http://books.google.ca/books?id=FivwDxt24goC&printsec=frontcover.
References
- ^ "Mary F. Bosworth". SAGE Publications. http://www.sagepub.com/authorDetails.nav?contribId=463170. Retrieved 2011-06-27.
- ^ a b "Professor Mary Bosworth". Monash University. http://arts.monash.edu.au/criminology/staff/mary-bosworth.php.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
Categories:- Living people
- Criminologists
- University of Western Australia alumni
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Monash University faculty
- Fellows of St Cross College, Oxford
- Australian sociologists
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