Associate Professor, Justice Studies
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.
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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.
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About Alessandro De Giorgi
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.
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.
| 2018 - Present | Professor, San Jose State University ‐ Department of Justice Studies | |
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| 2011 - 2018 | Associate Professor, Justice Studies, San Jose State University | |
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| 2009 - 2011 | Assistant Professor, San Jose State University ‐ Department of Justice Studies | |
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| 2007 - 2008 | Lecturer, San Jose State University ‐ Department of Justice Studies | |
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| 2006 - 2007 | Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley ‐ Center for the Study of Law and Society | |
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| 2004 - 2007 | Research Fellow, University of Bologna ‐ Department of Legal Studies | |
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| 2005 | Teaching Fellow, Dickinson College | |
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Disciplines
Grants
| 2010 | Return to Ghost Town: Concentrated Incarceration and Prisoner Reentry in an Oakland Neighborhood. |
| San Jose State University | |
| College of Applied Sciences and Arts Research Incentive Grant 2011 | |
| $25,000 | |
| 2005 | Second-Generation Immigrants: Normative Socialization and Deviance in Emilia Romagna |
| Regional Council of Emilia-Romagna, Italy | |
| 2004 | Immigrant Youth between Conflicting Models of Socialization and Deviance: the Issue of “Second Generation" |
| Italian Ministry of Education | |
| 2002 | Post-Fordism, Immigration and Social Control in Italy and Great Britain |
| Italian National Research Council (CNR) project code CNRG000F39 | |
| 2001 | Immigrants or Citizens? Peace and War Refugees in Southern Italy, between Expectations and Realities |
| UNESCO |
Professional Service and Affiliations
| 2015 - Present | International Advisory Board Member, The British Journal of Criminology | 2014 - Present | Associate Editor, Theoretical Criminology (USA) | 2013 - Present | Editorial Board Member, Antigone (Italy) | 2013 - Present | Book Review Editor, Punishment & Society (USA) | 2012 - Present | Ad hoc manuscript reviewer, Oxford University Press | 2012 - Present | Editorial Board Member, Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order (USA) | 2010 - Present | Ad hoc reviewer, American Sociological Review (USA) | 2010 - Present | Ad hoc reviewer, British Journal of Criminology (UK) | 2010 - Present | Ad hoc reviewer, Cambridge Journal of Economics (UK) | 2010 - Present | Ad hoc reviewer, Contemporary Justice Review (USA) | 2010 - Present | Ad hoc reviewer, Crime, Law & Social Change (USA) | 2010 - Present | Ad hoc reviewer, Criminology (USA) | 2010 - Present | Ad hoc reviewer, Criminology and Criminal Justice (USA) | 2010 - Present | Ad hoc reviewer, Critical Criminology (USA) | 2010 - Present | Ad hoc reviewer, Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa (Italy) | 2010 - Present | Ad hoc reviewer, European Journal of Criminology (UK) | 2010 - Present | Ad hoc reviewer, Global Labour Journal (South Africa) | 2010 - Present | Ad hoc reviewer, Justice, Power & Resistance (UK) | 2010 - Present | Ad hoc reviewer, Law & Social Inquiry (USA) | 2010 - Present | International Associate Editorial Board member, Punishment & Society (USA); Theoretical Criminology (USA) |
| 2005 | PhD, Keele University ‐ Criminology | |
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| 1998 | University of Bologna ‐ Law | |
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Links
Contact Information
alessandro.degiorgi@sjsu.edu
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