Emma Kaufman

DPhil Law

Emma received degrees in Philosophy and Gender Studies from Columbia University before coming to the Centre for Criminology as a Marshall Scholar in 2009. She was awarded the Roger Hood Prize for her performance in the MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice and continued her studies with an MPhil in Criminology and Criminal Justice. She started her MPhil research in September 2009 under the supervision of Dr Mary Bosworth and graduated with Distinction in July 2010. Her DPhil dissertation focuses on the treatment and management of foreign nationals within the prison estate in England and Wales. This work examines the role that nationality plays in prisoners? experiences of incarceration, the relationship between immigration and penal policy, and the methodological implications of ethnographic research. Her central question is how the challenges posed and felt by foreign nationals alter contemporary accounts of state power. Her wider research interests include race and gender, preventive and immigration detention, sociology of punishment, and sentencing.