🎓 New Video Release: My Speech at the Italian Senate, part of the Italian Parliament, on "Beyond Prison: Community Measures for Educational Justice" 🏛️ I'm pleased to share the video of my recent presentation at the Italian Senate, where I explored community-based alternatives to incarceration, highlighting the importance of education and social reintegration. 📖 🔗 Watch the Video Here: youtu.be/uPt9qVSPdBA?t=106m1… 🎥 🎤 Other Speakers: Daniela de Robert – Journalist at Rai and member of the first Board of the National Guarantor of the Rights of Persons Deprived of Personal Liberty Raffaella Sette – Full Professor of Sociology of Law and Deviance, University of Bologna Giuliano Stenico – President of CEIS Foundation, Professor of Pedagogy of Deviance at the Toniolo Institute of Modena Giorgio Pieri – Coordinator of Educating Communities with Prisoners (CEC) of the Papa Giovanni XXIII Community Coscino Antonio – Former inmate, sharing his testimony Don Riccardo Agresti – Head of the “Senza Sbarre” Community P. Giovanni Mengoli – President of the CEIS Group Giuseppe G. – Former inmate, sharing his testimony Don Salvatore Saggiomo – Chaplain of the Secondigliano prison and journalist Avv. Ivanmarcello Severino – Criminal lawyer of the Torre Annunziata Bar Carmelo Musumeci – Former life-sentenced prisoner, lawyer, and writer Laila Simoncelli – Lawyer, General Director of the Human Rights and Justice Service, and UN consultant for the Papa Giovanni XXIII Community Lina Caraceni – Associate Professor of Criminal Procedure and Prison Law, University of Macerata 🎙️ Moderator: Bartolomeo Barberis – President of the cooperative "Il Pungiglione" and UN representative on drug addiction for the Papa Giovanni XXIII Community 📅 Date: October 24, 2024, at 4:00 PM 📍 Location: Senate of the Republic (Rome) – or online here: lnkd.in/d7NxhapH Thank you for your support! Please feel free to share this message, and I look forward to continuing this vital dialogue on educational justice and community measures. 🤝 #JusticeReform #EducationalJustice #CommunitySolutions #Criminology #SergioGrossi @JohnJayResearch John Jay College (CUNY) The City University of New York (@CUNY) Senato della Repubblica (@SenatoStampa) – at Rome, Lazio

📚 Prison Education: Recognizing the Forest That Grows I was recently quoted in Inside Higher Ed in Olivia Sanchez’s reporting on Tufts University’s prison education initiative and the suspension of its MyTERN reentry program. My contribution emphasized the complexity of education in prison: Prisons concentrate many of society’s deepest problems: poverty, exclusion, unequal educational opportunities, trauma, and unmet health and social needs. Within these conditions, students and educators create precious spaces for dialogue, critical reflection, intellectual growth, and human connection. The lived experiences of incarcerated people are invaluable sources of knowledge. Their insights, reflections, and understanding of institutional life deserve recognition and should help shape educational practices, research, and public debate. Learning in these spaces is reciprocal: educators also have much to learn. As the saying goes, “A falling tree makes more noise than a growing forest.” This image captures something important about prison education. A highly visible incident can dominate public discussion, while years of patient learning, relationships, and everyday achievements receive far less attention. We should recognize that growing forest—and the students, educators, and community partners who sustain it. Education needs continuity, resources, and support, both inside prison and after release. Housing, healthcare, employment, and belonging are essential parts of that broader commitment. In the Tufts case, the distinction matters: MyTERN’s reentry program was paused, while the university stated that courses inside prison would continue. Thank you to Olivia Sanchez for bringing attention to this issue and including my perspective. 🔗 Read the article: insidehighered.com/news/inst… How can universities better recognize lived experience and sustain the everyday work of prison education? #PrisonEducation #LivedExperience #HigherEducation #Reentry #SocialJustice

🎥 Now Online: Prison Education and Rehabilitation at the UN The recording of my presentation at the Fifteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice has been published and is now available online. 📚 “Education and Correction: Analysis of Best Practices from the Global North and the Global South” explores how comparative research on prison education and reintegration can inform more humane and effective criminal justice policies. The Congress, held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, adopted the Abu Dhabi Declaration, whose commitments include addressing prison overcrowding and supporting rehabilitation and reintegration to prevent reoffending. Translating these commitments into practice requires connecting access to education and meaningful opportunities after release with efforts to reduce overcrowding and expand alternatives to imprisonment. Rehabilitation requires adequate conditions, sustained resources, and relationships that support people’s return to their communities. I joined Lucas Agudelo and Maki Haberfeld in “New Advances in Criminological Research,” chaired by Professor Rosemary Barberet and organized by John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York (CUNY), United States. ▶️ Watch my presentation from minute 42: youtube.com/watch?v=DzfmNHFk… How can we turn international commitments on rehabilitation and reducing overcrowding into meaningful institutional change? I welcome your reflections and comments. #UNODC #UNCrimeCongress #PrisonEducation #Rehabilitation #Reintegration #PrisonReform

📚 Rethinking Education Behind Bars How can education support human development in prison—and what tensions must we confront? I’m pleased to announce my new article with Renan Saldanha Godoi (University of São Paulo, Brazil), published in Plurais – Revista Multidisciplinar (Plurais – Multidisciplinary Journal), a journal of the State University of Bahia, Brazil: “Socioeducação para além da adolescência: a experiência APAC e o desenvolvimento humano de adultos privados de liberdade” (“Socioeducation Beyond Adolescence: The APAC Experience and the Human Development of Incarcerated Adults”). We examine Brazil’s Associações de Proteção e Assistência aos Condenados (Associations for the Protection and Assistance of Convicted Persons), known as APACs, through a broader understanding of socioeducation grounded in lifelong learning. Our analysis explores everyday relationships, formal and nonformal education, community participation, and shared educational responsibility. It also critically examines tensions involving rights, discipline, merit, work, and spirituality. 🔎 Read the article, available in Portuguese: revistas.uneb.br/plurais/art… The article appears in the special issue “Educação para restritos e privados de liberdade” (“Education for People Subject to Restrictions on or Deprivation of Liberty”), organized by Márcea Andrade Sales (State University of Bahia, Brazil) and Luziêt Maria Fontenele Gomes (State University of Southwest Bahia, Brazil). The collection connects debates on decolonial education, access to higher education, teaching practices, theater in prisons, and youth justice, with contributions addressing Brazil, Mozambique, and the United States. 🌍 Explore the full special issue: revistas.uneb.br/plurais/iss… I invite researchers, educators, practitioners, and people with lived experience of incarceration to read our article and the wider collection—and share your reflections in the comments. What would it take to make dignity, educational rights, and meaningful participation central to everyday prison life? #PrisonEducation #AdultEducation #SocialPedagogy #HumanRights #APAC

📚 Can Education Transform Prisons? Join My Talk on Paulo Freire! 📚 Tomorrow, October 13, I will be speaking at the International Paulo Freire Conference in Caltanissetta, Italy! Can prisons move beyond punishment and become spaces of education, critical consciousness, dignity, and social transformation? Drawing on Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" and "Pedagogy of Hope", I will explore how prison education can challenge institutional oppression and open pathways toward emancipation and social justice. Through examples from Brazil, Argentina, and other countries, I will discuss the possibilities and contradictions of transformative education behind bars—and what these experiences can teach us about adult education more broadly. 🎓 Talk: “Prisons between Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Pedagogy of Hope: Rethinking Adult Education through Paulo Freire” 📅 Tuesday, October 13, 2026 🕟 4:30 PM Italy | 10:30 AM New York 📍 Caltanissetta, Italy | Join online via Google Meet 🔗 meet.google.com/oes-idhw-qjy Many thanks to Giovanni Bevilacqua, Michele Longo, and the CPIA Paulo Freire Caltanissetta–Enna for the invitation! I look forward to connecting with educators, researchers, and practitioners working toward more just and transformative approaches to education. What would a truly emancipatory model of prison education look like? #PauloFreire #PrisonEducation #CriticalPedagogy #AdultEducation #Criminology #SocialJustice

🎓 New Advances in Criminological Research My presentation: 📚 Education and Correction: Analysis of Best Practices from the Global North and the Global South will explore comparative approaches to prison education, rehabilitation and correctional practice, examining how experiences across different penal systems can contribute to more effective, humane and evidence-informed pathways toward reintegration. 🎙️ The panel will be chaired by Prof. Rosemary Barberet and will feature: 🔹 Lucas Agudelo — Darknet Markets as an International Violence-for-Hire Platform 🔹 Sergio Grossi — Education and Correction: Analysis of Best Practices from the Global North and the Global South 🔹 Maki Haberfeld — Match Fixing in Sports – Mitigation through Education 🏛️ Organized by John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York (CUNY) 📅 Thursday, October 1, 2026 🕙 10:00–11:00 AM — Abu Dhabi (UTC+4) 💻 Online session 🔗 tinyurl.com/4t8su8e9 🌐 I look forward to exchanging perspectives with colleagues working across criminology, criminal justice, prison education, rehabilitation and reintegration, and to discussing how comparative research can help bridge the distance between promising practices and their implementation in different institutional and social contexts. #UNCrimeCongress #UNODC #JohnJayCollege #CUNY #Criminology #CriminalJustice #PrisonEducation #Rehabilitation #Reintegration #PenalReform #ComparativeCriminology #AbuDhabi2026

Connecting Research, Policy and Practice: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime | Abu Dhabi 2026 🇺🇳 – at United Arab Emirates

🌍 Greetings from Abu Dhabi! Are you also in Abu Dhabi for the Congress? Please send me a message — I would be very glad to meet for a coffee and exchange ideas. I have just arrived in the United Arab Emirates for the 15th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, which will officially open tomorrow at ADNEC. My first day in Abu Dhabi has already offered a valuable opportunity to reconnect with colleagues from different parts of the world and begin conversations that I hope will continue throughout the Congress. Over the coming days, I am particularly looking forward to exchanging perspectives on some of the questions at the core of my research and teaching at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY): prison reform and penal transformation, education and reintegration, alternatives to imprisonment, community sanctions, restorative and generative justice, and more community- and people-centered approaches to justice. 🌍 International gatherings like the UN Crime Congress are especially valuable when they create bridges between research, policy and practice, and when they allow experiences developed in different jurisdictions to enter into genuine dialogue. For me, Abu Dhabi will also be an opportunity to strengthen connections across the United States, Europe and Latin America, while learning from colleagues working in very different criminal justice contexts. I am looking forward to an intense few days of meetings, discussions, panels and new collaborations. 📍 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 🇺🇳 15th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice 📅 26 September – 1 October 2026 #UNCrimeCongress #AbuDhabi2026 #UNODC #Criminology #CriminalJustice #PrisonReform #PrisonEducation #Reintegration #CommunitySanctions #RestorativeJustice #JohnJayCollege #CUNY

🌍 UN Crime Congress 2026 🌍 I’m looking forward to traveling to Abu Dhabi for the UN Crime Congress 2026, where I will join colleagues from John Jay College of Criminal Justice / CUNY for a series of discussions on contemporary challenges in crime prevention, criminal justice, criminology, technology, and education. 🎓 My presentation will focus on: “Education and Correction: Analysis of Best Practices from the Global North and the Global South” 📅 Thursday, October 1 🕙 10:00–11:00 AM, Abu Dhabi time 📍 New Advances in Criminological Research My contribution examines comparative approaches to education in correctional settings and what can be learned from experiences across different penal and educational contexts. I am also very pleased that John Jay colleagues will contribute to three ancillary sessions during the Congress. ⚖️ Responses to Crime in the 21st Century: Advances in Research September 30 | 1:00–2:00 PM With contributions from Ulhas Gondhali, Elizabeth Jeglic, Morgan Kimmi, Nick Petropoulos, and Mark Ungar on subjects ranging from online markets and child sexual abuse prevention to AI in policing and environmental crime. 💻 Transnational Organized Crime and Technology: Emerging Threats and Multifaceted Solutions September 30 | 3:00–4:00 PM With Jana Arsovska, Gloria Gray, Madeline Hoppenrath, Jessica Vasquez, and Jheyleinnies Salce examining gender, cybercrime, cryptocurrency, fraud, and cyber-enabled trafficking. 📚 New Advances in Criminological Research October 1 | 10:00–11:00 AM Alongside my presentation, Lucas Agudelo will discuss violence-for-hire in darknet markets, while Maki Haberfeld will address match-fixing in sports and the role of education. 🤝 One of the most valuable dimensions of international conferences is the opportunity to connect research, policy, and practice across countries and institutions. If you will be attending the UN Crime Congress in Abu Dhabi, please send me a message now. I would be very glad to connect before the Congress and arrange a time to meet while we are there. #UNCrimeCongress #UNODC #Criminology #CriminalJustice #CrimePrevention #PrisonEducation #CorrectionalEducation #JohnJayCollege #CUNY #AbuDhabi #HigherEducation #JusticeResearch

🇵🇱🎓 Just arrived in Warsaw for EUROCRIM 2026! 🌍 Who else is here for this year’s Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology (ESC)? I am looking forward to reconnecting with colleagues and friends from across Europe and beyond, meeting new scholars, and exchanging ideas on punishment, prisons, probation, community sanctions, reintegration, decarceration, and alternatives to incarceration. 📚💡 This EUROCRIM is particularly special for me, as it marks a handover in the coordination of the ESC Working Group on Community Sanctions and Measures. 🤝 I would especially like to thank Jake Phillips, Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge, for the work we have done together coordinating the Working Group over these years and for his contribution to developing this international community of scholars. 🎓🌍 It has been a real pleasure working together, and I very much hope that the collaborations, conversations, and friendships developed through this work will continue well beyond the handover. 🤝 📍 If you are already in Warsaw, please join us today for the ESC Working Group meeting: 📅 Wednesday, 9 September 🕞 3:30 PM 📍 Room 1.510 🎤 And tomorrow, I would be delighted to see colleagues at the panel I will be chairing and presenting in: 📚 Critical Criminology: Incarceration, Surveillance and Social Control 📅 Thursday, 10 September 🕑 2:15–3:30 PM 📍 Faculty of Applied Languages, 55 Dobra Street — Room 1.141 The panel brings together research examining different dimensions of contemporary punishment and social control 🔎 — from abolitionist approaches to reentry and mass incarceration to the relationship between penal and social states, neighborhood disadvantage and juvenile offending, the privatization of security, and community-based alternatives to conventional imprisonment. 🌎 I will present: “Global South Global Community Safety: APAC ‘Prisons Without Police’ and the Political Economy of Decarceration in Brazil.” 🇧🇷 Drawing on the Brazilian Associação de Proteção e Assistência aos Condenados (APAC — Association for the Protection and Assistance of Convicted Persons) experience, I will explore a broader question that has been central to my research: 💡 How can we move beyond conventional carceral responses and develop forms of community safety, reintegration, and justice that do not simply reproduce punishment outside prison? These questions also connect closely with the work of the ESC Working Group on Community Sanctions and Measures: how can community sanctions avoid becoming mechanisms of net-widening and penal expansion, and instead contribute to meaningful processes of social integration, decarceration, and justice? 🌍⚖️ EUROCRIM has always been an important space for bringing together different national, theoretical, and disciplinary perspectives. I am looking forward to continuing these conversations here in Warsaw. 🇵🇱📚 👋 Who else is at EUROCRIM 2026 this week? 💬 Comment below or send me a message — it would be great to meet during the conference! 🤝 #EUROCRIM2026 #EuropeanSocietyOfCriminology #Criminology #CommunitySanctions #Probation #Penology #CriticalCriminology #Decarceration #AlternativesToIncarceration #Reintegration #PrisonStudies #APAC #Brazil #SocialJustice #Warsaw

📚 SAVE THE DATES | CRIM, LAW AND SOCIETY SEMINAR — FALL 2026 We are pleased to announce the Fall 2026 program of the Crim, Law and Society Seminar at the CUNY Graduate Center. The seminar provides a collaborative space for scholars, students, practitioners, and activists to present emerging research, discuss work in progress, and critically examine contemporary questions at the intersection of criminology, law, society, punishment, and social justice. 📅 Fall 2026 dates: • September 24 • October 29 • November 19 • December 17 🕔 Seminar: 5:00–7:00 PM 🍷 Informal social gathering: 7:00–9:00 PM—and longer if we wish! The meetings will be held in a hybrid format, allowing participants to join either in person or online. 📍 Sociology Ph.D. Lounge, Room 6112 CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, New York Those attending in person should bring a valid government-issued photo ID to enter the building. 📣 Would you like to present your research? We welcome proposals for papers, works in progress, and talks. Please use the registration form to indicate the date or dates on which you would be available to present. We also encourage everyone interested in attending—whether regularly or occasionally—to register through the same form: 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… Please share this invitation with colleagues, students, researchers, practitioners, and community members who may be interested. We look forward to creating a lively intellectual community and continuing our conversations beyond the formal seminar. Organized by Sergio Grossi, Michaela Soyer, and Lynn Chancer. #Criminology #LawAndSociety #CUNYGraduateCenter #CriticalCriminology #AcademicCommunity

🎥 New video available | Pedagogies of Hope in Prisons The recording of Conference 5, “Epistemologia da Pedagogia Social,” at the VIII International Congress of Social Pedagogy & Graduate Symposium (CIPS) is now available. I had the pleasure of contributing the following intervention: “Epistemologia da Pedagogia Social e pedagogias da esperança nas prisões: uma discussão com a criminologia” “The Epistemology of Social Pedagogy and Pedagogies of Hope in Prisons: A Dialogue with Criminology” My point of departure was that prison is never pedagogically neutral. Its architecture, routines, power relations, institutional language, and expectations all educate. When organized around exclusion, hierarchy, violence, and dehumanization, the prison itself operates as a pedagogy of oppression. Drawing on Paulo Freire and critical criminology, I asked whether other pedagogies can be constructed within places of confinement. This requires more than introducing a school or educational program into an otherwise unchanged prison. It means rethinking the institution as a whole: its physical and relational environment, the role of staff, the agency of incarcerated people, and the connections among prisons, universities, social movements, and the broader community. 🌍 I discussed a comparative constellation of alternatives: 🔹 APAC in Brazil, with its emphasis on shared responsibility, trust, community, and reduced reliance on coercive control; 🔹 the University of Buenos Aires experience in Devoto Prison, where incarcerated students, university actors, and social movements have co-constructed educational spaces, cooperatives, and forms of collective organization that challenge correctional logic; 🔹 Bastøy Prison in Norway, where relational work, the educational role of staff, community life, and the ecological environment become integral dimensions of the institution. These experiences should not be treated as ready-made models to reproduce uncritically. They demonstrate, however, that alternatives can be assembled, compared, and adapted—and that prisons can be contested and reconstructed as educational and democratic communities. As Paulo Freire reminds us: “Education does not change the world. Education changes people. People change the world.” ▶️ Full recording: youtube.com/watch?v=tXJkKa_e… ⏱️ My intervention begins at approximately 2:05:51: youtu.be/tXJkKa_e848?t=7551 My sincere thanks to the organizers of VIII CIPS and to all the colleagues who contributed to this rich international dialogue. Which other experiences should become part of this comparative constellation of pedagogies of hope? #SocialPedagogy #PrisonEducation #CriticalCriminology #PauloFreire #HigherEducationInPrison #CIPS2026

🌐 Abu Dhabi 2026 | Who else will be at the 15th United Nations Crime Congress? I am pleased to confirm that I will attend the 15th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, convened by UNODC in Abu Dhabi from 26 September to 1 October 2026. I have been formally invited to participate in my capacity as an individual expert. At the same time, I am delighted to contribute alongside colleagues from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice delegation to the hybrid ancillary meeting: 🔹 New Advances in Criminological Research 📅 Thursday, 1 October 2026 🕙 10:00–11:00 a.m. Abu Dhabi 🏫 Organized by John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York 🌍 International times: 🇮🇹 Rome / 🇪🇸 Madrid: 8:00–9:00 a.m. 🇧🇷 Brasília / 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires: 3:00–4:00 a.m. 🇺🇸 New York: 2:00–3:00 a.m. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles: 11:00 p.m.–12:00 midnight, 30 September–1 October The Congress will provide an important forum for dialogue among researchers, policymakers, practitioners, civil society representatives and international institutions. I look forward to contributing an independent scholarly perspective while connecting the work of John Jay College with the wider international criminal justice community. Who else will be attending? Will you participate in person in Abu Dhabi or join online? Please leave a comment or send me a direct message so that we can connect before or during the Congress. Official programme: unodc.org/res/crimecongress/… #UNCrimeCongress #UNODC #CrimePrevention #CriminalJustice #Criminology #JohnJayCollege #CUNY #UnitedNations #InternationalCooperation #SDG16

📚 Social Pedagogy, Education, and Justice: Building Knowledge Beyond Punishment Tomorrow, I am pleased to participate in the session “Epistemologies of Social Pedagogy” at the VIII International Congress of Social Pedagogy & Postgraduate Symposium in São Paulo. The Congress invites us to examine the contributions of social pedagogy to socio-education through a comprehensive protection framework. This raises a crucial question: how can education move beyond being treated as a secondary intervention within punitive institutions and instead be recognized as a right, a relational practice, and an infrastructure for democratic participation? Drawing on comparative research conducted across seven countries on prison education, reintegration, alternatives to incarceration, and restorative and generative justice, I will offer reflections on how social pedagogy can challenge narrow correctional logics and support responses grounded in dignity, community, rights, and social inclusion. I look forward to learning alongside colleagues from Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Portugal, Uruguay, and the United States—and to strengthening the dialogue between academic inquiry, public policy, and transformative practice. 📅 Friday, 28 August 2026 🕣 8:30–11:30 a.m. — São Paulo time 📍 João Calvino Auditorium, Building 41 Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, São Paulo 🔗 Full event details: www4.fe.usp.br/eventos/event… If you are participating in the Congress, please reach out. I would be delighted to connect, learn about your work, and explore future collaborations. #SocialPedagogy #PrisonEducation #Reintegration #AlternativesToIncarceration #TransformativeJustice #ComparativeCriminology #CUNY

🗽🚨 We are hiring two tenure-track Assistant Professors—one in criminology and one in sociology. Come join us in the Department of Sociology at John Jay College, City University of New York! 🗽🚨 Please apply, share widely, and circulate this through your academic and professional networks. If you know an excellent criminologist or sociologist who might be a strong fit, please send this directly to them. We are looking for outstanding scholars in Criminology and Sociology who would like to become our colleagues and contribute to a department deeply engaged with some of the most important questions surrounding justice, inequality, race, crime, punishment, and social change. The two searches have specific emphases on criminological theory, criminal law and race/racial subjectivities, and race and ethnicity across key sociological subfields. 📍 Come work with us at John Jay! John Jay is part of CUNY’s extraordinary public-university tradition, rooted in academic excellence, access, social mobility, and education as a public good. CUNY’s founding college, City College of New York, was historically known as the “Harvard of the Proletariat” because of its combination of academic excellence and its role in educating generations of working-class and immigrant New Yorkers. You would join brilliant and generous colleagues, an exceptionally diverse student body, and a vibrant intellectual community where questions of crime, punishment, inequality, justice, and social transformation are at the center of our teaching and research. And you would be doing this in New York City—the city that elected Zohran Mamdani as mayor after a campaign that included a major commitment to rethinking public safety through the creation of a Department of Community Safety. That makes NYC an especially exciting place for criminologists and sociologists today: one of the most dynamic cities in the United States for studying criminal justice and social change, where scholars, policymakers, practitioners, activists, communities, and people directly affected by the criminal legal system are actively debating—and experimenting with—the policies and institutional transformations needed to rethink our system of justice and the very meaning of public safety. For scholars interested in doing research that can matter both inside academia and in the wider public conversation, it is an extraordinary environment. 📅 Application deadline: September 15, 2026 🔎 Job ID: 32458 👉 Full announcement and application: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/assist… #WeAreHiring #AcademicJobs #FacultyJobs #TenureTrack #AssistantProfessor – at Edgewater, NJ

🌍 **Bridging Scholarship and Activism: Critical Migration and Deportation Studies Conference** Today, the **Critical Migration and Deportation Studies Conference** brings together some of the strongest voices from both academia and grassroots activism to critically examine migration, deportation, and contemporary immigration policy. The conference creates an essential space in which rigorous academic research can enter into dialogue with advocacy, organizing, community knowledge, and lived experience. This intersection is indispensable: migration cannot be understood exclusively through institutional data or theoretical frameworks, but must also be examined through the experiences of the people and communities directly affected by criminalization, surveillance, detention, state violence, and deportation. The program addresses some of the most urgent dimensions of contemporary migration governance, including: 🔹 Criminalization and crimmigration 🔹 State violence and surveillance 🔹 Immigration detention and deportation 🔹 Sanctuary policies 🔹 Community resistance and migrant justice At a time when migration is increasingly framed through punitive and exclusionary policies, we need stronger connections between universities, researchers, organizers, advocates, and communities. I encourage colleagues, students, researchers, and activists not only to follow this important conference, but also to become involved in the academic networks, community organizations, and activist groups working to defend migrant rights and develop more just approaches to mobility, belonging, and citizenship. Although the conference has currently reached registration capacity, its broader intellectual and political conversation must continue well beyond this event. 📅 Thursday, August 6, 2026 📍 Baruch College, New York City 🔗 marxe.baruch.cuny.edu/critic… #MigrationStudies #CriticalMigrationStudies #DeportationStudies #Crimmigration #MigrantJustice #ImmigrantRights #CommunityOrganizing #PublicSociology #CriticalCriminology #CUNY

📚✨ I am delighted to share that the recording of the official launch of *Generative Justice: Beyond Crime and Punishment* has now been published. Contributing a chapter to this book has been both an important academic milestone and a deeply meaningful experience for me. The volume represents a collective effort to move beyond the limits of punishment and explore how justice can generate human development, repair harm, strengthen relationships, and create the social conditions for meaningful transformation. 🎙️ The official launch, held in London on 16 July 2026, brought together Fergus McNeill, Mary Corcoran, and Beth Weaver for an inspiring discussion about the ideas, practices, tensions, and contradictions involved in imagining justice differently. 🌍 It is a genuine honour to be part of this intellectual and human community. For me, it represents a vision of academia that is not afraid to engage with contradictions, tensions, and uncertainty—an academia willing to work across theory and practice, institutional reform and radical critique, and the possibilities and limitations of existing systems. Rather than seeking easy answers, this community creates spaces in which difficult questions can be confronted collectively, critically, and constructively. ▶️ Watch the full recording of the official book launch: youtube.com/live/bI1d6iV8wrs 📖 Learn more about the book and purchase it from Bristol University Press: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk… 🙏 My sincere thanks to the Independent Social Research Foundation for hosting the launch, to the editors and contributors who made the book possible, and to everyone committed to advancing this essential conversation. #GenerativeJustice #BeyondPunishment #Criminology #SocialJustice #RestorativeJustice #CommunityJustice #PenalReform #CriticalCriminology #AcademicCommunity

📘 New Publication | Rethinking Deprivation of Liberty through a Dialogue of Knowledges I am pleased to share the digital version of the edited volume Repensando la privación de libertad desde un diálogo de saberes — Rethinking Deprivation of Liberty through a Dialogue of Knowledges — coordinated by Andrea Díaz Genis and Natalia Barraco Mastrángelo, and published in the Biblioteca Plural collection of the Universidad de la República. ✍️ I had the pleasure of contributing a chapter entitled: “¿Educar para una nueva cultura carcelaria? Una alternativa brasileña y el código de honor” “Educating for a New Prison Culture? A Brazilian Alternative and the Code of Honor” 📚 The volume brings together interdisciplinary reflections on education, philosophy, deprivation of liberty, prison systems, human rights, and the possibilities of rethinking incarceration through a dialogue of knowledges. 🔗 Digital version available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1-ii…⁠� 💬 I warmly invite colleagues, students, practitioners, and anyone interested in prison education, penal reform, and critical approaches to punishment to read, share, discuss, and disseminate the volume. #PrisonEducation #Criminology #PenalReform #HumanRights #PrisonStudies #HigherEducation #LatinAmerica #EducaciónEnContextosDeEncierro – at Lisbon, Portugal

📣 The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 call is now open. I would be very happy to hear from researchers interested in developing a project in collaboration with me at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY), especially within the framework of a Global Postdoctoral Fellowship. I particularly welcome proposals related to: • prison education • reentry and reintegration policies for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people • community sanctions and alternatives to incarceration • abolitionist perspectives • restorative and transformative justice • prison studies, punishment, and social justice • comparative research across the Global North and Global South John Jay College and CUNY offer a vibrant environment for critical and interdisciplinary research on crime, punishment, justice, and social transformation, in the heart of New York City. Researchers considering applying to the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 call are very welcome to reach out to discuss research ideas, possible collaborations, and the fit with John Jay/CUNY as an outgoing host or research partner, depending on the fellowship structure and eligibility requirements. The deadline for applications is September 9, 2026. 🔗 More information here: link.europa.eu/YqkHgf I would be delighted to connect with scholars working on these themes and to explore possible applications together. #MSCA #PostdoctoralFellowship #MarieSklodowskaCurieActions #JohnJayCollege #CUNY #PrisonEducation #Reentry #RestorativeJustice #Abolition #Criminology #Punishment #SocialJustice #GlobalSouth

📚 Critical Theory, Abolition, and Prison Education I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting at the 18th International Critical Theory Conference, hosted by Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Department of the Arts, from June 17–19, 2026. My paper, “Punitive Rationality and Pedagogies of Abolition: Foucault, Angela Davis, and Prison Education as Critical Practice,” will be presented on: 🗓️ Thursday, June 18, 2026 🕒 3:00–3:30 PM 📍 Session 2 – Aula Camino 🎓 Chair: Chris Manno In this presentation, I examine prison education as a site of critical practice: not simply as a rehabilitative intervention, but as a terrain where punitive rationalities can be questioned, contested, and reimagined through abolitionist pedagogies. I am also glad to share that I will be in the Bologna area over the next month, and I would be very happy to connect with colleagues, students, and friends working on critical theory, abolition, prison education, punishment, and social justice. 📄 Conference program: drive.google.com/file/d/1iyr… Looking forward to being back in Bologna and to engaging in these conversations. #CriticalTheory #Abolition #PrisonEducation #Foucault #AngelaDavis #PunishmentAndSociety #JohnJayCollege #CUNY #UniversityOfBologna #CriticalPedagogy #Criminology