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faculty
Tammi Arford, PhD
Associate Professor
Crime & Justice Studies
Contact
508-910-6943
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Liberal Arts 399F
Education
| 2013 | Northeastern University | PhD in Sociology |
| 2008 | Northeastern University | MA in Sociology |
| 2006 | University of Florida | BA in Anthropology |
Teaching
- Transformative Justice
- Social Control
- A History of Criminology
- Prison Writing
- Research Methods for Justice Studies
Teaching
Programs
Programs
- Black Studies
- Crime & Justice Studies BA
- Crime & Justice Studies Pre-Law
- Women's and Gender Studies BA
Teaching
Courses
Introduction to study in the disciplines of the College of Arts & Sciences. This course facilitates a successful transition to college life by engaging students in a structured curriculum of academic and life skills enhancement and encouraging the development of enduring relationships between students, faculty and advisors, and classmates.
Introduction to study in the disciplines of the College of Arts & Sciences. This course facilitates a successful transition to college life by engaging students in a structured curriculum of academic and life skills enhancement and encouraging the development of enduring relationships between students, faculty and advisors, and classmates.
Introduction to the American criminal justice system. The course will discuss the core components of the criminal justice system, including law enforcement, courts, and corrections. Throughout the course, students will learn about the relationship between these components and the challenges that the criminal justice system currently faces.
The internship experience is designed to provide a broad exposure to the workings of crime and justice related organizations, businesses, agencies, and collectives¿including but not limited to advocacy groups, community based programs and organizations, nonprofit organizations, courts, law offices, social service, law enforcement agencies, and research related positions, including academia.
Introduction to the ways in which different academic disciplines explore the history, culture and social dynamics of cities, and how to make urban life viable, sustainable and just. The goal is to engage students in exploring the nature of urban life and finding ways to promote the social, cultural, and economic vibrancy of cities in our region, nationally, and globally.
Research
Research awards
- $ 149,992 awarded by MA Department Of Higher Education for Transformative Justice Certificate Program
Research
Research interests
- Punishment and social control
- Cultural criminology
- Critical carceral studies
- Penal Tourism
- Transformative justice and pedagogy
Select publications
- Patricia Morris and Tammi Arford (2018).
Sweat a little water, sweat a little blood: A spectacle of convict labor.
Crime, Media & Culture - Tammi Arford (2016).
Touring Operational Carceral Facilities: An Ethical Inquiry
The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism, 925-945. - Tammi Arford (2016).
Prisons as Sites of Power and Resistance
The Sage Handbook of Resistance, 224-243.
Tammi Arford is an Associate Professor of Crime and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her research and teaching interests include punishment and social control, penal abolition, and transformative justice. She has recently been working on several projects about penal spectatorship, focusing on prison tourism, historic memory, aesthetics, and visual representations of suffering.