Alexandra Campbell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Criminology and Sociology
Alex Campbell teaches courses in criminology and sociology, including Medical Sociology, Deviance and Crime, and Media, Culture, and Crime. Her current scholarly interests focus on medicalization, criminalization, and power.
Credentials
Education
Research
Current research
Carceral Medicine
An examination of the ways in which medicine and the law work to regulate behavior. Focuses on mechanisms of criminalization and medicalization and the social control they exert on vulnerable communities. Explores the mutually reinforcing discourses of medicine and the law in shaping the policing of the COVID-19 pandemic
The Medicalization and Criminalization of Mothering
An examination of the multiple ways that ‘mothering’ has been medicalized and criminalized,
Selected publications
Campbell, A. (2021) Cultural Criminology and Homeland in Grubb, J. and Posick, C. (eds) Streaming Criminology New York: NYU Press
Campbell, A (2017) “The Risky Mother: The Medicalization of Mothering” in Michelle Huges Miller et al Bad Mothers: Representations, Regulations, and Resistance Demeter Press
Campbell, A (2017) “Framing Terrorism” in “The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture”
Campbell, A (2011) ‘Keeping the Lady Safe: The Regulation of Femininity Through Crime Prevention Literature’ in Walklate, S. (ed) Gender and Crime London: Routledge (Reprint of original article previously published in Critical Criminology in 2005)
Campbell, A. 2010 ‘Imagining the War on Terror: Fiction, Film, and Framing’ in Hayward, K. and Presdee, M. (2010) eds Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image Oxford and New York: Routledge 98-114
Other scholarly activity
Selected Conference Papers
American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA. Pandemic Policing The Medicalization and Criminalization of the COVID-19 crisis November, 2022
Canadian Society of Sociology, Vancouver, BC, Carceral Medicine: Medicalizing and Criminalizing the Black Mother June, 2019
American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, PA. Monstrous Mothers: Medicalizing and Criminalizing the Gestating Body. November, 2017.
ACEI Global Summit on Childhood, San Jose, Costa Rica. Scientific Childhood: the medicalization and regulation of the first three years April, 2016
Eastern Sociological Society Annual Conference, New York, New York. ‘Risky Borders: The Medicalization and Criminalization of Gestation’, February, 2015.
Annual International Crime, Media & Popular Culture Studies Conference, Terre Haute Indiana. ‘Hierarchies of Suffering: degrees of pain, degrees of justice’, September, 2014.
British Sociological Association, Annual Medical Sociology Conference, York, UK. ‘Soothing Science’: The Medicalization of Mothering, September, 2013.
American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA. Suffering in Silence: Representation and the Disciplinary Effects of Silence, November, 2010.