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Mary Bosworth is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a specific focus on subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Political Science and International Relations, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics Bosworth addresses in their work include:

  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Migration and Exile Studies

Recent publications by Bosworth include the following:

  • "Immigration detention and juxtaposed border controls on the French north coast" (2020), published in European Journal of Criminology
  • "The Politics of Pain in Immigration Detention" (2021), published in Punishment & Society
  • "Border Control and the Degradation of Labour" (2023), published in The British Journal of Criminology
  • "Criminalisation, race, and citizenship in UK border control" (2022), published in Citizenship Studies

Other notable publications with coauthors include:

  • "Gender, Vulnerability and Everyday Resistance in Immigration Detention: Women's Experiences of Confinement in a Portuguese Detention Facility" (2020), published in International Journal for Crime Justice and Social Democracy, coauthored with Francesca Esposito

Frequent coauthors working with Bosworth are:

  • Leslie Paik
  • Andriani Fili
  • Francesca Esposito
  • Raquel Matos
  • Rachel Kronick

Bosworth often publishes in venues such as:

  • Theoretical Criminology
  • Punishment & Society
  • International Journal for Crime Justice and Social Democracy
  • European Journal of Criminology
  • The British Journal of Criminology

In addition to journal articles, Bosworth has published books with Princeton University Press, including two editions of Supply Chain Justice released in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons

    Mary Bosworth

  • Inside Immigration Detention

    Mary Bosworth

  • Governing Through Migration Control Security and Citizenship in Britain

    Mary Bosworth;Mhairi Guild

  • Reassessing Resistance: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Prison

    Mary Bosworth;Eamonn Carrabine

  • The Borders of Punishment: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Exclusion

    Katja Franko Aas;Mary Bosworth

  • Doing Prison Research: Views From Inside:

    Mary Bosworth;Debi Campbell;Bonita Demby;Seth M. Ferranti

  • Border Control and the Limits of the Sovereign State

    Mary Bosworth

  • Subjectivity and identity in detention: Punishment and society in a global age:

    Mary Bosworth

  • Labelling the Victims of Sex Trafficking: Exploring the Borderland between Rhetoric and Reality:

    Carolyn Hoyle;Mary Bosworth;Michelle Madden Dempsey

  • Punishment, globalization and migration control: “Get them the hell out of here"

    Mary Bosworth;Katja Franko;Sharon Pickering

  • Deportation, Detention and Foreign National Prisoners in England and Wales

    Mary Bosworth

  • Creating the responsible prisoner Federal admission and orientation packs

    Mary Bosworth

  • Foreigners in a Carceral Age: Immigration and Imprisonment in the United States

    Mary Bosworth;Emma Kaufman

  • Confining Femininity:: A History of Gender, Power and Imprisonment

    Mary Bosworth

  • The Past as a Foreign Country? Some Methodological Implications of Doing Historical Criminology

    Mary Bosworth

  • Race, criminal justice, and migration control: Enforcing the boundaries of belonging

    Mary Bosworth;Alpa Parmar;Yolanda Vázquez

  • Resistance and compliance in women’s prisons: Towards a critique of legitimacy

    Mary Bosworth

  • Can immigration detention centres be legitimate?: Understanding confinement in a global world

    Mary Bosworth

  • Razzismo democratico. La persecuzione degli stranieri in Europa

    Salvatorre Palidda;F. Aebi Marcelo;Hans-Joerg Albrecht;Edoardo Bazzaco

  • The U.S. Federal Prison System

    Mary F. Bosworth

  • Penal Humanitarianism? Sovereign Power in an Era of Mass Migration

    Mary Bosworth

  • Immigration detention, punishment and the transformation of justice

    Mary Bosworth

  • Changing Contours of Criminal Justice

    Mary Bosworth;Carolyn Hoyle;Lucia Zedner

  • Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and Opposition in Globalizing CaliforniaThe Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America

    Mary Bosworth

  • Labelling the Victims of Sex Trafficking: Exploring the Borderland between Rhetoric and Reality

    Michelle Madden Dempsey;Mary Bosworth;Carolyn Hoyle

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Sparks
Richard Sparks University of Edinburgh

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