Dr Emma Russell is a Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University and a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Crime, Law and Justice in the School of Law and Justice at the University of New South Wales.
Her research focuses on the carceral state, including policing, prisons, border detention, and criminal legal processes. She examines relations of power, inequality and resistance at each of these sites.