Rate My Professor Bree Carlton

Key publications include her monograph Imprisoning Resistance: Life and Death in an Australian Supermax Prison (Federation Press, 2007), which reconstructs resistance and mortality in Pentridge Prison's high-security units. She co-authored Resisting Carceral Violence: Women’s Imprisonment and the Politics of Abolition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) with Emma K. Russell, examining anti-carceral feminist campaigns. Carlton edited Women Exiting Prison: Critical Essays on Gender, Post-Release Support and Survival (Routledge, 2013) with Marie Segrave. Recent articles feature 'The weaponisation of “trauma-informed” discourse in prison policy: An abolition feminist critique' (Incarceration, 2023, with Emma K. Russell), 'Heritage, resistance and dissonance: reconstructing Pentridge in a prison tourism theme park' (International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2023), and 'Counter-carceral acoustemologies: sound, permeability and feminist protest at the prison boundary' (2022). Other notable works include 'Pathways, race and gender responsive reform: Through an abolitionist lens' (Theoretical Criminology, 2013, with E. Russell) and ''It’s a gendered issue, 100 per cent': How tough bail laws entrench gender and racial inequality' (2021). With 1,353 citations on Google Scholar, her scholarship influences abolitionist criminology and penal reform debates.