Sociology & Criminology for a Changing World
Sarah Brayne is an American sociologist whose research explores the intersection of technology, surveillance, and the criminal justice system. An Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Brayne investigates how big data analytics and algorithmic decision-making are transforming policing and social control. Her ethnographic and mixed-methods work offers unique insights into the implementation
Didier Fassin is a French anthropologist and sociologist whose work bridges the boundaries between ethnography, political sociology, and the anthropology of institutions. As Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Fassin has conducted groundbreaking fieldwork on policing, immigration enforcement, and humanitarianism.
Alessandro De Giorgi is an Italian-born criminologist and critical social theorist whose work focuses on the intersections of punishment, migration, and neoliberal governance. Currently based in the United States, De Giorgi’s research examines how economic restructuring, global inequality, and intensified border regimes shape the contemporary penal landscape. He is known for combining empirical research with
Jock Young was a pioneering British criminologist whose work spans critical criminology, left realism, and cultural criminology. He began his career with the co-authored New Criminology and went on to help found the tradition of left realism in the 1980s. Young later became a central figure in cultural criminology, analyzing crime through the lenses of
Loïc Wacquant is a prominent French-American sociologist known for his critical analysis of urban marginality, neoliberal penality, and the carceral state. A close collaborator of Pierre Bourdieu, Wacquant integrates theoretical insights on habitus, field, and symbolic power with ethnographic research in urban ghettos and prisons. His influential works—such as Urban Outcasts and Punishing the Poor—examine
John L. Scotson was a British sociologist best known for his collaboration with Norbert Elias on the influential study The Established and the Outsiders (1965). At the time of the study, Scotson was a graduate student conducting empirical fieldwork in a working-class community in South England. His keen observations and interviews formed the empirical foundation