Dr. Brotherton gained his PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara while teaching public high school in San Francisco. In 1994, Dr. Brotherton came to John Jay College of Criminal Justice where he continued his research and teaching on youth resistance, marginalization, and deportation co-founding the Street Organization Project in 1997. He has received numerous research grants from both private and public agencies and has published widely in journals, books, newspapers and magazines. In 2003 and 2004 Dr. Brotherton co-organized the first academic conferences on deportation in the Caribbean and the United States respectively. He received the Praxis award for contributions to social justice from the Critical Criminology Section of the American Society of Criminology in 2015, named Critical Criminologist of the Year in 2011 and won the Choices award for "Keeping Out the Other" in 2008. He has also been nominated for the 2011 George Orwell Prize in England and the C.Wright Mills Award in the United States. Among his recent books are: Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment: Detention, Deportation and Border Control with Phil Kretsedemas (New York: Columbia 2017); Las Pandillas Como Movimiento Social with Luis Barrios (University of Central America Press 2016); Street Gangs: A Critical Appraisal (Routledge 2015); Banished to the Homeland: Dominican Deportees and Their Stories of Exile, with Luis Barrios (Columbia 2011); Keeping Out The Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Control, edited with P. Kretsedemas (Columbia 2009); and  The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang, with Luis Barrios (Columbia 2004).

BOOKS

Brotherton, D. and S. Tosh. (forthcoming).The Dialectics of Migration: New York City Deportation Pipeline and Social Bulimia,” American Behavioral Scientist. 

Brotherton, D. (2023). Ethnographic Activism and Critical Criminology,”Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit. 

Jayne Mooney is Professor of sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and is on the doctoral faculties of women’s studies and sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center, NYC. She is also Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Jayne has extensive research experience and has published thirty papers in books and peer-reviewed journals, and numerous research monographs and reports. She has recently completed The Theoretical Foundations of Criminology: Place, Time and Context for Routledge, which presents the core theories of criminology and the sociology of deviance as historical and cultural products and theorists as producers of culture, writing in particular historical moments. Jayne is also the author of Gender, Violence and the Social order (Palgrave/ Macmillan) and co-author of Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology (Routledge). She is vice-chair of the Critical Criminology and Social Justice Division of the American Society of Criminology and is (with Albert de la Tierra) the Division’s official archivist. Previously she was European book review editor for the journal Critical Criminology and is a board member of the British Journal of Criminology. Jayne is Senior Editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, jointly responsible (with David Brotherton) for the Critical Criminology section.

Sofya Aptekar is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Core Faculty of Transnational, Cultural, and Community Studies at UMass Boston, where she teaches courses on theory, methods, and immigration. Sofya is interested in naturalization and de-naturalization, the intersections of immigration and military systems, discourses of immigrant deservingness, and biomedical boundaries of the nation. Her work has appeared in multiple publications, including Social Problems and Ethnic and Racial Studies, and she has published a book, The Road to Citizenship: What Naturalization Means for Immigrants and the United States. She is writing her second book on immigrants in the military and conducting a project with undocumented immigrants at CUNY.

Other Publications:

Book

2023. Sofya Aptekar, Green Card Solider Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat

Professor Stageman received his PhD in criminal justice at the CUNY Graduate Center in 2016. His academic work examines political economy and profit in the detention of American immigrants, and the economic context surrounding Federal-local immigration enforcement partnerships. Other research interests include correctional education, theories of punishment, prisoner reentry, and program evaluation. Dan has taught and directed theater programs in a variety of settings, including prisons, high schools, alternative to incarceration programs, and most recently as an adjunct in John Jay’s sociology department.

Robert Garot received his Ph.D. in Sociology from UCLA in 2003. He is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. His book, Who You Claim: Performing Gang Identity in School and on the Streets, published by NYU Press in 2010, has been reviewed in Teacher’s College Record and Contemporary Sociology, and it received Honorable Mention for the Robert E. Park Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. In 2007 and 2008, he conducted fieldwork in Tuscany on racialization practices and the experiences of immigrants with the law. He is a facilitator for the Alternatives to Violence Project in the Garden State Penitentiary, and has served as an advisor to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Urban Institute.

Yolanda Ortiz-Rodriguez is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She has a PhD in Criminal Justice from The Graduate Center of the City of New York.

Yolanda’s background includes working with youth in juvenile detention facilities in New York City as well as with survivors of domestic violence. Her research agenda is focused on domestic violence and Latinas and gender violence, and is currently exploring the area of coercive control and its use by families and communities in perpetuating violence against women.

Shirley Leyro is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Borough of Manhattan Community College – CUNY. A critical criminologist, Dr. Leyro’s research focuses on deportation effects – including the impact of the fear resulting from the vulnerability to deportation. Her research interests include immigration, deportation, social disorganization, and crimmigration. She is co-editor of Outside Justice: Immigration and the Criminalizing Impact of Changing Policy and Practiceas well as a contributor to the same volume. Her latest publication, Crimmigration, Deportability and the Social Exclusion of Noncitizen Immigrantsis openly accessible and discusses findings from her dissertation research. Professor Leyro is currently working on a funded research studyexploring the impact of deportability on the feelings of belonging and membership of CUNY noncitizen students. She has a blog: The Académica: A Blog About This Latinx’s Struggles as I Navigate the Halls of the Ivory Tower, and is also a member of the Leadership Team for the Latina Researchers Network. Professor Leyro is also part of the social media campaign: #thisiswhataprofessorlookslike.

Jamie Longazel is an Associate Professor of Law & Society at John Jay College and is affiliated with the International Migration Studies (IMS) program at the CUNY Graduate Center. He received a PhD in sociology from the University of Delaware in 2011 after completing a Law and Social Science Doctoral Fellowship at the American Bar Foundation. From 2011-2017, he taught at the University of Dayton. Most of Longazel's research focuses on immigration politics, although he's also written about mass incarceration and the politics of policing. Most recently, he co-edited (with Miranda Cady Hallett) Migration and Mortality: Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas (Temple University Press, 2021). His previous book, Undocumented Fears: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania (Temple University Press, 2016) won the North Central Sociological Association’s 2017 Scholarly Achievement Award. He is also the co-author (with Benjamin Fleury-Steiner) of The Pains of Mass Imprisonment (Routledge, 2014). He has published academic articles in Race & Class, Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, Punishment & Society, and Theoretical Criminology, among other outlets. In addition to his primary teaching assignment in John Jay's undergraduate Law & Society major, he has taught in prisons and has led numerous social movement workshops over the years. He was also the founder of Anthracite Unite, a collective working on racial and economic justice in Northeast Pennsylvania.

Edwin Grimsley is a doctoral student in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is primarily interested in using quantitative research methods to study the impact of immigration arrests and court processes on racial and ethnic groups in the United States and examinations of the factors that lead to deportations. He previously worked at the Innocence Project as a Senior Case Analyst, where he investigated cases of prisoners convicted of serious crimes they did not commit, ultimately helping to free seven innocent people from prison. Additionally, he worked on post-9/11 immigration detentions and deportations for the ACLU Immigrants Rights Project, investigating arrests and detentions for immigrants in New York City and New Jersey. He holds a BA from Wesleyan University.

BOOK

Grimsley E. and Vasquez L. (2024). Immigration Enforcement and the Criminal Record: Using the Secure Communities Program to Understand the Role of Criminal History in ICE Enforcement. Critical Criminology. 32(2)

Sarah Tosh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University-Camden, where she teaches courses on drugs and society, the sociology of deviance, inequality in criminal justice, and criminal justice research methods, as well as an honors seminar on immigration, deportation, and justice. Her research focuses on the punitive intersections between drug, crime, and immigration policy in the United States, with a focus on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions. Her (tentatively-titled) book, From Criminalization to Deportation: Aggravated Felonies, Inequality, and Resistance at the Crimmigration Nexus is forthcoming from New York University Press. Drawing on archival research, interviews with lawyers, and ethnographic observation of NYC’s detained immigration court, From Criminalization to Deportation explores the historical development and modern day impacts of the aggravated felony—an oft-overlooked legal category which provides the basis for the removal of thousands of immigrants each year. Dr. Tosh is the co-PI of a two-year National Science Foundation-funded study of “The Criminal Deportation Pipeline in New York City” with Dr. David Brotherton, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. Her work has appeared in academic journals including Critical Criminology, International Journal of Drug Policy, and Journal of Migration and Human Security. She received her PhD in Sociology in 2019 from the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Other Publications:

Book

Sarah Tosh. 2023. The Immigration law Death Penalty: Aggravated Felonies, Deportation , and Legal Resistance . New York: New York University Press.

Avila L. and Tosh S. (2024). The Institutional Hearing Program and the Incarceration-to-Deportation-Pipeline. Critical Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-024-09783-3\

Brotherton, D. and S. Tosh. (forthcoming).The Dialectics of Migration: New York City Deportation Pipeline and Social Bulimia, American Behavioral Scientist. 

Edited Journal

Sarah Tosh, Edwin Grimsley, and Nicholas Rodrigo, ed.2024 .Special Issue of Critical Criminology on "The Criminalization to Deportation Pipeline in the United States."

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Lorena Avila Jaimes and Sarah Tosh. 2024. "The Institutional hearing Program and the Incarceration -to-Deportation-Pipeline." Critical Criminology.

Ulla D. Berg Sarah Tosh, y K. Sebastian Leon. 2022. "Trabajos originales de investigación. Etnografía carcelaria en tiempos de pandemia: Examinando la detención y deportación de migrantes durante el COVID-19. "Etnografias Contemporaneas 8(15), pp.62-87. (Spanish Translation of previously published article.)

Ulla D. Berg, Sarah Tosh, and Kenneth Sebastian Leon. 2022. "Remote Ethnography in Caraceral Settings: Local Configurations of Migrant Detention during the Coronavirus Pandemic." Ethnography. https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381211072414

Sarah Tosh.2022. "Mandatory Detention for Aggravated Felonies: The Reproduction of Inequality through US Immigration Law." Law & Policy, 44(1), pp.70-97. https://doi.org/10.1111/lapo.12179

Book Chapters

Sarah Tosh, Forthcoming. "Race and United States Immigration Policy: From Criminalization to Deportation." In Handbook on Border Criminology, edited by Mary Bosworth, Katja Franko, Maggy Lee, and Rimple Mehta. Cheltenham, Uk: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Carolina Sanchez Boe, Ph.D. is a sociologist and anthropologist. She is a visiting researcher at SADR and affiliated with Université de Paris, Cerlis CNRS and with IMC, Aarhus University. Her project Borders Without Fences and Confinement Without Walls: New Approaches to Migration Control Through Electronic Bracelets is funded by the Danish Research Foundation. Her research centres on the anthropology of confinement, and migration control in the shapes of deportation, prisons, electronic monitoring and facial recognition, primarily in France and the USA. She has worked for non-profit organizations in these fields, including American Friends’ Service Committee, Cette France-là, Cimade, and the Prison Litigation Network.

I am a doctoral student at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. My current work is drawing on abolitionist and decolonial perspectives and concerns the French military industrial complex, the transnational circulation of technologies of killing, and the dis/placement of people and knowledge.

Darializa Avila Chevalier is a doctoral student in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is primarily interested in studying the ways Black immigrants from Latin America are impacted by the US criminal system and deportation. Her professional background and community organizing work has largely focused on issues of policing, incarceration, and immigrant detention. She holds a BA from Columbia University.

She is a co host of the SADR podcast “They are just Deportees”

Other Publications:

Chevalier, D.A. (2023). The Securitisation of immigration through the Tactical Terrorism Response Team. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 16(3) 537-559. https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2023.2229618

Michele Cannon studies International Migration at The CUNY Graduate Center, with a particular focus on human rights and refugee topics such as transit migration and spaces of confinement. She first began working with vulnerable populations as a communications volunteer for the Western Sahara International Film Festival (FiSahara) in 2010. Currently, she is a language educator and contributes translation and interpretation services for the New York Legal Assistance Group. She holds a B.A. from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and a M.A. from New York University.