Lori Sexton is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology and an affiliate of the Race, Ethnic and Gender Studies Program at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. Her interests lie at the intersection of criminology and sociolegal studies, with a specific focus on prisons, punishment, and the intersection of policy and the lived experience of penal sanctions.
Lori's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Justice, and has been published in Criminology, Theoretical Criminology, Punishment & Society, Journal of Crime and Justice, and various other scholarly outlets.
B.S., Human Development, Cornell University (2005)
M.A., Criminology, University of Pennsylvania (2006)
Ph.D., Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine (2012)