Social Infrastructure in a Society of Captives: How it can Promote Positive Human Connections in Prisons and Support Rehabilitation and Desistance

ICPA2024 Presentation by Anna Eriksson (ICPA2024-PID057)

Author

Anna Eriksson

Professor in Criminology, Monash University, Australia

Associate Professor Anna Eriksson, based at Monash University, Australia, is an international scholar in the areas of comparative penology and Nordic Exceptionalism, restorative justice, and criminal justice reform. She is currently researching social infrastructure in prisons, and prison staff culture and vocational pathways. She has held several Australian Research Council grants that examines the practices and policies of imprisonment in Australia and the Nordic countries, and their relationship with social, political, and cultural variables in different national and international contexts. She has undertaken research topics ranging from restorative justice and paramilitaries in Northern Ireland; children of prisoners; and the infringement system and its impact on disadvantaged populations in Australia. She also is a leading researcher on neurodisability and criminal justice in Australia, and she combines empirical research with interdisciplinary theoretical scholarship and industry engagements with the aim of impacting criminal justice practice.

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