Dr Esmorie Miller
Lecturer in CriminologyResearch Overview
My main research interests are related to Race, Youth, Gender and justice. My recent book (Race, Recognition, and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice: The Intractability/Malleability Thesis) gives a socio-historic account of Black, British and Canadian youth’s contemporary high rates of punishment. The research historicizes race and racialization in contemporary youth justice. The work locates penalty beyond the penal estate, into racialized youth’s everyday lives. Penalty is more appropriately examined as constitutive of everyday cross institutional experiences. Following a Critical Race Theory logic, the racialization of punitiveness in contemporary YJ reflects continuities of racialized peoples’ historic exclusion from the benefits of modern, universal rights.
PhD Supervision Interests
Youth, Race, Gender, Theories of Punishment, Stigma as Penalty, Cross Institutional Exclusion, Modernity, Urban Cultures, Historical Methods
DATA SCIENCE/ DATA ACTIVISM: THE TECHNOLOGIES OF EVERYDAY BORDERING, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
STIGMA AND PENALTY IN THE EVERYDAY LIVES OF BLACK BRITISH YOUNG WOMEN: THE CASE OF CHILD Q
Invited talk
International Journal of Social Research Methodology (Journal)
Editorial activity
Routledge (Publisher)
Editorial activity
Imperial Genealogies of Crime
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
British Society of Criminology (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Black youth in the Canadian criminal justice system
Invited talk
Identity Shift (Desistance) in Serious Group Offending: Race, Individual Confidence & Institutional (il)Legitimacy
Invited talk
Routledge (Publisher)
Editorial activity
Diversity in Curriculum Award
Prize (including medals and awards)
