Alexandra Cox

Trinity Hall

Liberally Governed: Young People’s Responses to Juvenile Justice Interventions

This is a study of the lives of approximately forty young people as they traveled through the juvenile justice system in New York.  It is concerned with understanding how young people express agency in the context of the youth justice system, identifying some of the ways in which they believe they can get out and stay out of the system, and examining what role the state plays or can play in either preventing or facilitating young people's exit from the system.

Start Date: 2007/10.

End Date: 2011/11.

EDUCATION

University of Cambridge

MPhil, Criminological Research

Manuel Lopez Rey Prize for the best performance on the Graduate Program

Yale University

BA, American Studies

 

 

Prisons and punishment, juvenile justice, youth and childhood studies, organizational change

 

PUBLICATIONS

(Forthcoming) 'Doing the Programme or Doing Me? The Pains of Youth Imprisonment,' Punishment & Society

(Forthcoming) Book chapter, 'Anchoring Identity: The Construction of Self For and By Young Offenders in England and the USA,' Youth Matters: Critical Geographies of Childhood and Youth: Policy and Practice, Cambridge: Policy Press.

(Forthcoming) Book chapter (with Loraine Gelsthorpe) 'Creative Encounters in Prisons' in Cheliotis, L. (editor) The Arts of Imprisonment: Essays on Control, Resistance and Empowerment, Aldershot: Ashgate

(2009) 'Rooting Respect: Young People's Perspectives on Respect, Responsibility and Government in the Criminal Courts,' Childhoods Today, 3(1).

 

Dr. Loraine Gelsthorpe