Emma Russell - CFLS Lecture Series

Dr. Emma Russell is an Associate Professor of Crime, Justice and Legal Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University, which is located on unceded Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, Australia. She is a critical criminologist and carceral geographer whose research focuses on prisons, policing and anti-carceral resistance. Emma is the author of Queer Histories and the Politics of Policing (2020) and co-author (with Bree Carlton) of Resisting Carceral Violence: Women’s Imprisonment and the Politics of Abolition (2018). She is involved in various local coalitions against prison expansion and hyper-criminalisation. In 2024-2026, Emma is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow on ‘New Bail Regimes: Reconceptualising Risk to Reduce Remand Imprisonment’.