Sophie Palmer

DPhil student

Sophie Palmer read law at Keble College, Oxford continuing to the MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Centre for Criminology. She began her DPhil in 2007 under the supervision of Dr Mary Bosworth. Her thesis, ?The Responsibilisation Project: Governance at a Distance Inside the Private Prison? explores, through empirical study, the role of the private prison within a neo-liberal democracy. Sophie was Stipendiary Lecturer in Law and Graduate Admissions Coordinator at Balliol College, Oxford between 2009-2010. In addition she served as Junior Dean at Keble College, Oxford between 2008-2009. She was research assistant on the forthcoming Hart publication ?Emotion and Crime? and has previously worked as research assistant to Professor Roger Hood and Dr Carolyn Hoyle on ?The Death Penalty' (OUP, 2008). Sophie?s wider teaching and research interests include criminal, constitutional and family law, the prison estate and the privatised prison and the sociology of punishment.