Alessandro De Giorgi
Author Details
- Full Name: Alessandro De Giorgi
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- Country: Italy / United States
- Discipline: Criminology, Critical Criminology, Cultural Criminology, Governmentality Studies, Legal Studies, Marxist Theory, Penal Theory, Policing Studies, Political Theory, Sociology, Sociology of Deviance, Sociology of Power, Surveillance Studies, Urban Sociology
- Themes:
Punishment, Mass Incarceration, Political Economy, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Crime Policy, Immigration, Inequality, Surveillance, Prison System, Governmentality, Criminalization, Policing, Border Control, Racism, Social Exclusion
Additional Information
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 critical theory to expose the ways in which criminal justice systems function as instruments of social control in the age of globalization.
De Giorgi’s scholarship is central to contemporary debates in critical criminology and governmentality studies. Drawing on Marxist political economy, Foucault’s analytics of power, and postcolonial perspectives, he analyzes how neoliberal capitalism produces “surplus populations” that are managed through punitive and exclusionary practices. His work reveals the connections between mass incarceration, migration control, and social stratification, offering a transnational perspective on punishment beyond the traditional nation-state framework.
Key Works
- Re-thinking the Political Economy of Punishment: Perspectives on Post-Fordism and Penal Politics (2006)