Alexandra Cox
Biographic Data
| ID | 4076470 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandra Cox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Cox |
| SIGNATURE | COX A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9939-078X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Addressing a Global Public Health Crisis
Human trafficking is a major global public health issue, affecting an estimated 27.6 million individuals through forced labor or sexual exploitation. Healthcare providers are uniquely positioned to identify victims, provide care, and connect survivors with resources, as approximately 90% of victims report accessing healthcare during their exploitation. However, education on trafficking remains limited across medical and allied health training. As…
Even as a Probation Officer, We’re all Very Much Aware That We’re Black First
This study focuses on how 27 frontline and supervisory probation officers (71% women, 67% Black) view the criminal legal system (CLS), utilizing intersectionality as an analytical framework. We present two themes: probation as ‘minor,’ and the CLS is a manifestation of societal racial oppression. Within each theme we detail sub-themes and highlight where we noted differences for probation officers across the intersections of race/gender/and insti…
Carl Suddler, Presumed Criminal
The sociological landscape of youth confinement
This article examines key sociological questions that are raised by the confinement of children and young people. Globally, there are approximately one million children held in confinement, and there is an emerging body of qualitative sociological research in this area. This article examines the role that social constructions of childhood innocence and evil play in shaping the processes of protection and removal, and how these constructions play …
The Legitimation Strategies of “Progressive” Prosecutors
This article focuses on the self-legitimation strategies of frontline prosecutors working in a Northeastern city in the United States (“Belton”). The research took place in a self-described “progressive” prosecutor's office in the midst of a legitimacy crisis that prosecutors faced across the country. The prosecutors in Belton spoke about their role and practices in the face of this legitimacy crisis through a strategy of differentiation from oth…
Trapped in a Vice
Trapped in a Vice explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promoting change in the lives of young people, yet ultimately relies upon tools and strategies that enmesh them in a system that they struggle to move beyond. The system, rather than the crimes themselves, is the vice. Trapped in a Vice explores the lives of the young people and adults in the criminal justice system, revealing the ways that they struggle to …
Challenging the Logics of Reformism and Humanism in Juvenile Justice Rhetoric
On the Durability of Carceral Logics
Making Markets and Constructing Crises
This book review is a beginning academic researcher’s interpretation of the robust methods and rich data Ho presents in her study of investment banking culture and the market in Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (2009). A unique contribution of the text is Ho’s combining of ethnographic methods in order to practice polymorphous engagement in her study. A weakness of the text is Ho’s lacking autoethnographic analysis of her experience as a…
Fresh air funds and functional families
This article examines the enduring ways that racial politics are masked by discourses of place and family in the history of juvenile justice in the USA. The tropes of place and family have been invoked since the inception of the USA’s juvenile justice system and have influenced the processes of policing, removal, and return, even as the latest incarnation of reforms focus on building juvenile justice facilities and alternatives to incarceration w…
New visions of social control? Young people's perceptions of community penalties
This article engages with youth perspectives on community penalties, examining the significance of their sense of voicelessness and the indeterminacy of these interventions. The article examines young people's understandings of social inequality and racism, looking beyond issues of procedural fairness, legitimacy, and compliance to questions about young people's ability to accommodate and challenge injustices and ultimately escape the net of puni…
Doing the programme or doing me? The pains of youth imprisonment
This article draws on research about young people's responses to being governed in secure residential facilities. It focuses on young people's expressions of agency as they ‘do programme’ in these facilities. It points to the ways that young people's language of choice and responsibility reflects their performances of ‘programme’ as they manage complicated emotions about change and growth. It is argued that there are various ‘splits’ that exist b…
Deep Inside by M. Willmott
Victoria, BC., Canada : Trafford ( 2007 ) 66pp. £7.50pb ISBN 978-1-4251-0989-9 This self-published collection of prison writings is an exemplar of the tradition of giving voice to the experience of incarceration and, in particular, to using that voice as a means of personal change. Willmott's book, a collection of prose and poetry ranging from the deeply personal and reflective to the spiritual and political, though perhaps never able to reach a …
Irish Children and Teenagers in a Changing World
Lucretius on Matter and Man
Doing the programme or doing me? The pains of youth imprisonment
This article draws on research about young people's responses to being governed in secure residential facilities. It focuses on young people's expressions of agency as they ‘do programme’ in these facilities. It points to the ways that young people's language of choice and responsibility reflects their performances of ‘programme’ as they manage complicated emotions about change and growth. It is argued that there are various ‘splits’ that exist b…
Challenging the Logics of Reformism and Humanism in Juvenile Justice Rhetoric
New visions of social control? Young people's perceptions of community penalties
This article engages with youth perspectives on community penalties, examining the significance of their sense of voicelessness and the indeterminacy of these interventions. The article examines young people's understandings of social inequality and racism, looking beyond issues of procedural fairness, legitimacy, and compliance to questions about young people's ability to accommodate and challenge injustices and ultimately escape the net of puni…
Fresh air funds and functional families
This article examines the enduring ways that racial politics are masked by discourses of place and family in the history of juvenile justice in the USA. The tropes of place and family have been invoked since the inception of the USA’s juvenile justice system and have influenced the processes of policing, removal, and return, even as the latest incarnation of reforms focus on building juvenile justice facilities and alternatives to incarceration w…
The sociological landscape of youth confinement
This article examines key sociological questions that are raised by the confinement of children and young people. Globally, there are approximately one million children held in confinement, and there is an emerging body of qualitative sociological research in this area. This article examines the role that social constructions of childhood innocence and evil play in shaping the processes of protection and removal, and how these constructions play …
The Legitimation Strategies of “Progressive” Prosecutors
This article focuses on the self-legitimation strategies of frontline prosecutors working in a Northeastern city in the United States (“Belton”). The research took place in a self-described “progressive” prosecutor's office in the midst of a legitimacy crisis that prosecutors faced across the country. The prosecutors in Belton spoke about their role and practices in the face of this legitimacy crisis through a strategy of differentiation from oth…
Lucretius on Matter and Man
Deep Inside by M. Willmott
Victoria, BC., Canada : Trafford ( 2007 ) 66pp. £7.50pb ISBN 978-1-4251-0989-9 This self-published collection of prison writings is an exemplar of the tradition of giving voice to the experience of incarceration and, in particular, to using that voice as a means of personal change. Willmott's book, a collection of prose and poetry ranging from the deeply personal and reflective to the spiritual and political, though perhaps never able to reach a …
Irish Children and Teenagers in a Changing World
Doing the programme or doing me? The pains of youth imprisonment
This article draws on research about young people's responses to being governed in secure residential facilities. It focuses on young people's expressions of agency as they ‘do programme’ in these facilities. It points to the ways that young people's language of choice and responsibility reflects their performances of ‘programme’ as they manage complicated emotions about change and growth. It is argued that there are various ‘splits’ that exist b…
New visions of social control? Young people's perceptions of community penalties
This article engages with youth perspectives on community penalties, examining the significance of their sense of voicelessness and the indeterminacy of these interventions. The article examines young people's understandings of social inequality and racism, looking beyond issues of procedural fairness, legitimacy, and compliance to questions about young people's ability to accommodate and challenge injustices and ultimately escape the net of puni…
Making Markets and Constructing Crises
This book review is a beginning academic researcher’s interpretation of the robust methods and rich data Ho presents in her study of investment banking culture and the market in Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (2009). A unique contribution of the text is Ho’s combining of ethnographic methods in order to practice polymorphous engagement in her study. A weakness of the text is Ho’s lacking autoethnographic analysis of her experience as a…
Fresh air funds and functional families
This article examines the enduring ways that racial politics are masked by discourses of place and family in the history of juvenile justice in the USA. The tropes of place and family have been invoked since the inception of the USA’s juvenile justice system and have influenced the processes of policing, removal, and return, even as the latest incarnation of reforms focus on building juvenile justice facilities and alternatives to incarceration w…
On the Durability of Carceral Logics
Trapped in a Vice
Trapped in a Vice explores the consequences of a juvenile justice system that is aimed at promoting change in the lives of young people, yet ultimately relies upon tools and strategies that enmesh them in a system that they struggle to move beyond. The system, rather than the crimes themselves, is the vice. Trapped in a Vice explores the lives of the young people and adults in the criminal justice system, revealing the ways that they struggle to …
Challenging the Logics of Reformism and Humanism in Juvenile Justice Rhetoric
The sociological landscape of youth confinement
This article examines key sociological questions that are raised by the confinement of children and young people. Globally, there are approximately one million children held in confinement, and there is an emerging body of qualitative sociological research in this area. This article examines the role that social constructions of childhood innocence and evil play in shaping the processes of protection and removal, and how these constructions play …
The Legitimation Strategies of “Progressive” Prosecutors
This article focuses on the self-legitimation strategies of frontline prosecutors working in a Northeastern city in the United States (“Belton”). The research took place in a self-described “progressive” prosecutor's office in the midst of a legitimacy crisis that prosecutors faced across the country. The prosecutors in Belton spoke about their role and practices in the face of this legitimacy crisis through a strategy of differentiation from oth…
Carl Suddler, Presumed Criminal
Even as a Probation Officer, We’re all Very Much Aware That We’re Black First
This study focuses on how 27 frontline and supervisory probation officers (71% women, 67% Black) view the criminal legal system (CLS), utilizing intersectionality as an analytical framework. We present two themes: probation as ‘minor,’ and the CLS is a manifestation of societal racial oppression. Within each theme we detail sub-themes and highlight where we noted differences for probation officers across the intersections of race/gender/and insti…
Addressing a Global Public Health Crisis
Human trafficking is a major global public health issue, affecting an estimated 27.6 million individuals through forced labor or sexual exploitation. Healthcare providers are uniquely positioned to identify victims, provide care, and connect survivors with resources, as approximately 90% of victims report accessing healthcare during their exploitation. However, education on trafficking remains limited across medical and allied health training. As…
Sociology (13 works) · Criminology (11 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Economic Justice (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works)