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• Alison Cox, 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), and qualitative methods. She is also a trained Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program Instructor. Her scholarship has been published inCriminal Justice Studies,Critical Criminology, and a special issue of theJournal of Prisoners on Prison, celebrating 25 years of convict criminology. She is also a contributing author toConvict Criminology for the Future, edited by Dr. Jeffrey Ian Ross (University of Baltimore) and Dr. Francesca Vianello(University of Padua).