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Sergio Grossi
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Comparative research on punishment, prison education, and reintegration. Professor of Criminology at John Jay College, City University of New York (CUNY). Opinions are my own.
🌍 From research to criminal justice practice
Tomorrow I’ll be presenting at the 15th United Nations Crime Congress in Abu Dhabi as part of the John Jay College/CUNY panel:
🎓 New Advances in Criminological Research

📅 October 1
🕙 10–11 AM Abu Dhabi
💻 Online
🔗 tinyurl.com/4t8su8e9
September 30, 2026 at 12:16 PM
📍 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
🇺🇳 15th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
📅 26 September – 1 October 2026
Are you also in Abu Dhabi for the Congress? Please send me a message — I would be very glad to meet for a coffee and exchange ideas.
September 25, 2026 at 6:04 PM
🌍 Heading to Abu Dhabi for the UN Crime Congress 2026

🎓 On October 1, I’ll present:

“Education and Correction: Analysis of Best Practices from the Global North and the Global South”

🤝 Will you be at the Congress? Message me now — I’d be very happy to connect and meet in Abu Dhabi.
September 21, 2026 at 7:53 PM
🇵🇱🎓 Just arrived in Warsaw for #EUROCRIM2026!
🌍 A particularly special ESC for me, marking a handover in the Community Sanctions and Measures Working Group

📍 Working Group meeting today — 3:30 PM, Room 1.510
🎤 Tomorrow — 2:15 PM, Room 1.141: my panel on incarceration, social control, APAC 🇧🇷 .
September 9, 2026 at 7:55 AM
📚 Save the dates for the Fall 2026 Crim, Law and Society Seminar at the CUNY Graduate Center!

📅 Sept. 24 | Oct. 29 | Nov. 19 | Dec. 17
🕔 Seminar: 5–7 PM
🍷 Social gathering: 7–9 PM
💻 Hybrid participation
📍 CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
Register to attend or present:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
September 1, 2026 at 6:20 PM
🎥 The recording of VIII CIPS Conference 5 is online. My intervention asks how prisons can move from pedagogies of oppression toward pedagogies of hope, through APAC, UBA/Devoto and Bastøy. Watch from 2:05:51: youtu.be/tXJkKa_e848?...

#SocialPedagogy #PrisonEducation
September 1, 2026 at 6:00 PM
🌐 I’ll attend the 15th UN Crime Congress in Abu Dhabi in person as an individual expert and join the John Jay delegation for “New Advances in Criminological Research” on 1 October, 10–11 a.m. Who else is going—in person or online? Please DM me. #UNODC
September 1, 2026 at 5:08 PM
📚 Social Pedagogy, Education, and Justice

Tomorrow in São Paulo, I’ll join “Epistemologies of Social Pedagogy” at #VIIICIPS, discussing how education can move beyond punitive logics toward rights, reintegration, and social transformation.

📅 28 Aug, 8:30–11:30, UPM
🔗 www4.fe.usp.br/eventos/even...
August 27, 2026 at 7:32 PM
🗽🚨 We’re hiring!

Two tenure-track Assistant Professors in our Department of Sociology at John Jay College, CUNY:

🔹 Criminology
🔹 Sociology

Come work with us in NYC on questions of justice, race, inequality, crime & social change.

📅 Sept. 15
🔎 32458

Please share widely!
August 12, 2026 at 3:19 PM
🌍 The Critical Migration and Deportation Studies Conference brings together leading scholars, activists, advocates, and people with lived experience to examine migration, deportation, criminalization, detention, surveillance, and community resistance.

🔗 marxe.baruch.cuny.edu/critical-mig...
August 6, 2026 at 3:23 AM
📚 The launch of Generative Justice: Beyond Crime and Punishment is now online. Honoured to be part of a community unafraid to work through the contradictions of justice, reform and social change.

🎥 www.youtube.com/live/bI1d6iV...
📖 bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/generative-j...
July 21, 2026 at 5:07 PM
July 7, 2026 at 4:39 PM
📣 The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 call is now open.

I would be very happy to hear from researchers interested in developing a project in collaboration with me at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY). More info: bit.ly/4y0mzZP.
July 5, 2026 at 9:28 AM
📚 Critical Theory, Abolition, and Prison Education

I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting at the 18th International Critical Theory Conference, hosted by Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Department of the Arts, from June 17–19, 2026.
June 12, 2026 at 6:23 PM
📚 Critical Thinking and Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Justice Education: An Open Educational Resource on Reintegration, Prison Education, Restorative Justice, and Reentry
June 12, 2026 at 6:04 PM
📚 New Publication | Prison Education, APAC, and Carceral Culture

I am pleased to share the publication of the edited volume Repensando la privación de libertad desde un diálogo de saberes.

🔗 The publication can be viewed here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1nbCk...
June 12, 2026 at 5:06 PM
🎓 New Academic Affiliation | Associate Researcher at SCCJR

I am pleased to share that I have joined The Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research — SCCJR as an Associate Researcher.
June 12, 2026 at 4:19 PM
⚖️ Congratulations to the future criminologists, sociologists, advocates, and public servants shaped by John Jay College.

Yesterday’s Commencement was a powerful reminder of what makes John Jay such a unique institution >> bit.ly/4dY6oCL
June 3, 2026 at 1:54 AM
⚖️ Excited to attend the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2026 in San Francisco!

If you will also be at LSA, feel free to send me a message — it would be great to connect, exchange ideas, and continue conversations on prison education, and transformative justice.
bit.ly/4uzX5A4
May 26, 2026 at 7:02 PM
May 24, 2026 at 12:22 AM
📘 I was delighted to receive today the print edition of Generative Justice: Beyond Crime and Punishment, edited by Fergus McNeill, Mary Corcoran, and Beth Weaver.

This collective volume invites us to rethink justice beyond conventional responses: bit.ly/4v2nTJf
May 20, 2026 at 10:13 PM
🌐 Honored to Participate in the 15th United Nations Crime Congress

I am honored to have been invited to participate as an expert in the 15th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)[->https://bit.ly/3RdbTWK]
May 17, 2026 at 3:15 AM
📚 Join us for the final Crim, Law and Society Workshop of the semester at the CUNY Graduate Center.

As co-organizers of this year’s workshop, Michaela Soyer, Lynn Chancer, and I are pleased to invite interested participants to our final meeting of the semester.[...] bit.ly/3PmMObk
May 16, 2026 at 9:47 PM
🏛️ I am honored to share that I have been elected Faculty Senate and College Council Representative at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY).

I am grateful for the trust placed in me by my colleagues and look forward to contributing. bit.ly/4dF5tZ1
May 13, 2026 at 12:10 AM
🎓 Celebrating the Jock Young Award at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Honored to have had the opportunity to join Jayne Mooney, Director of Critical Criminology bit.ly/49D7geI
May 11, 2026 at 3:40 AM