Education

Teaching

• Transformative Justice
• Social Control
• A History of Criminology
• Prison Writing
• Research Methods for Justice Studies

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.