Dr Federica Rossi

I joined LSBU in 2016 where I am Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Law and Social Science. I hold a PhD in Political Sociology from the Universite de Paris X Nanterre (France) and a post-doctorate from the EHESS (France).
My research interests include state violence, political violence and criminalisation of activism, the long terms impacts of criminalisation and judicialisation on history writing and collective memory, and harmful consequences of criminalisation. I am also interested in penal theory and punishment, including research on amnesties and collective pardons and the controversial relation between the political and the judicial. A more recent strand of my research focuses on police presence in schools and its differential impacts on pupils and learning environments.

I am currently co-coordinator of the Working Group on Criminalisation of activism and dissent at the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control.
I was part of French-British collaborative project on "Criminalisation of dictatorial pasts" funded by the AHRC Care for the Future (UK) and LabEx Pasts in the Present (France) (2015-2020).
I have been involved in the organisation and coordination of the International Women Film Festival in Florence (Italy) since 2010.

Behind Bars: Prison and Society

Crimes of the Powerful: States, Corporations and Human Rights

Issues in Crime

Research Project

Understanding Punishment: Penal Theory and Practice Contemporary Criminology