Alessandro De Giorgi received his PhD in Criminology from Keele University (United
Kingdom) in 2005. Before joining the Department of Justice Studies at SJSU in 2007, he
was a Research Fellow in Criminology at the University of Bologna (Italy) and a Visiting
Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California,
Berkeley. 

Alessandro De Giorgi’s teaching and research interests include theories of punishment and
social control, urban ethnography, political economy, and social justice. Currently, he
is conducting an ethnographic research on the socioeconomic consequences of concentrated
incarceration and prisoner reentry in a segregated neighborhood of Oakland, CA.

Articles

Controle de imigraçao, pòs-fordismo, e less eligibility. A economia polìtica da punição e do hiperencarceramento dos imigrantes na Europa, Discursos Sediciosos (2012)
 
“La primera democracia punitiva del mundo”, Revista Crisis (2011)
 
Book review: Punishing the Poor. The Neoliberal Government of Social Marginality by Loic Wacquant., The British Journal of Criminology (2010)
 
Immigration control, post-Fordism, and less eligibility. A materialist critique of the criminalization of immigrants across Europe., Punishment & Society (2010)
 
Rebellious politics and the social control of civil disobedience., Theoretical Criminology (2010)
 

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Books

A miséria governada através do sistema penal (2006)
 
El gobierno de la excedencia. Postfordismo y control de la multitud (2006)
 
Re-thinking the Political Economy of Punishment: Perspectives on post-Fordism and Penal Politics (2006)
 
Tolerancia Cero. Estrategias y pràcticas de la sociedad de control (2005)
 
Traiettorie del controllo: note sull’economia politica della pena (2005)
 

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Contributions to Books

Punishment and political economy., Handbook of Punishment and Society. (2012)
 
El experimento penal americano. (Spanish Translation), Criminalizacion racista de los migrantes en Europa. (2011)
 
L’expérience pénale américaine. (French Translation), Migrations Critiques. Repenser les migrations comme mobilites humaines en Europe. (2011)
 
Post-Fordism and penal change: the new penology as a post-disciplinary social control strategy., Travels of the Criminal Question. Cultural Embeddedness and Diffusion. (2011)
 
The U.S. penal experiment., The Racial Criminalisation of Migrants in the XXI Century. (2011)
 

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