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Alison Colby

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  • Alison Colby, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at East Carolina University in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology. Her research interests include prison visitation, the impact of incarceration on families, critical criminology (e.g., convict, feminist, queer, and rural), gender and crime, victimization, and qualitative methods. She is also a trained Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program Instructor.
    Her scholarship has been published in Criminal Justice Studies, Critical Criminology, Feminist Pedagogy, Mobilization, and a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prison celebrating 25 years of convict criminology. She has also authored book chapters for Convict Criminology for the Future, edited by Dr. Jeffrey Ian Ross (University of Baltimore) and Dr. Francesca Vianello (University of Padua), as well as Flawed Criminal Justice Policies: At the Intersection of the Media, Public Fear, and Legislative Response (3rd Edition), edited by Dr. James F. Anderson (East Carolina University) and Dr. Frances P. Reddington (University of Central Missouri).

professional service activities

  • Division of Convict Criminology (DCC) I currently serve as the Co-Chair of the Mentoring Program for the Division of Convict Criminology (DCC) of the American Society of Criminology. 2024 - 2026

preferred title

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology