Ana Aliverti
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Ana is the Oxford-Howard League Post-doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Criminology (2012-2013). She has recently completed her DPhil in Law at Oxford. Her work looks at the role of the criminal law in the policing of immigration. In her dissertation, she analysed both the formal criminalisation of immigration breaches --through the enactment of so called 'immigration offences'- and their enforcement in practice. Focused in the United Kingdom, her thesis is both a theoretical enquiry about the use of criminal powers to control immigration and an empirical examination of how these offences are used in everyday enforcement practices and what the function of criminal punishment is. By looking at two different legal branches –immigration law and criminal law, her work theorises about the distinctive function that criminal punishment plays in the regulation of immigration.
Before starting her doctorate degree, she completed the MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Oxford in 2008 with Distinction and was awarded the Proxime Accessit to the Roger Hood Prize. She also holds an MA in Sociology of Law (Magna Cum Laude, IISL) and a BA in Law (Honours, University of Buenos Aires). She practised criminal law and international human rights law in Buenos Aires and Washington, DC.
Ana is also an Stipendiary Lecturer in Criminal Law at Wadham College, Oxford, having previously taught Criminological Theories, Immigration and Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Juvenile Justice and Comparative Criminal Justice at Oxford and Buenos Aires.
Publications
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Books
2013 (forthcoming). Crimes of Mobility: Criminal Law and the Regulation of Immigration. Routledge: Abingdon.
Articles in Journals
2013. ‘Judging who should be let in and who should be out: a study of immigration-related cases in the criminal justice system,’ Prison Service Journal. Special Issue on Migration. January, No 205.
2012. ‘Making people criminal. The role of the criminal law in immigration enforcement,’ Theoretical Criminology 16 (4). Best Article Prize Winner in 2012.
2012. ‘Exploring the function of criminal law in the policing of foreigners: the decision to prosecute immigration-related offences,’ Social & Legal Studies 21(4).
2006. ‘Moving forward and backward: the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on procedural and substantive protections. The judgement in Fermín Ramírez v Guatemala’, Revista CEJIL. Debates en Derechos Humanos y el Sistema Interamericano, I, 2: 78-88 (in Spanish).
2006. ‘“Positive” Obligations in the Inter-American Human Rights System’ (with Tara Melish), Interights Bulletin, 15, 3.
2004. ‘The restrictive jurisprudence of the Criminal Court of Cassation on the right to appeal. The case of the “double instance” in the criminal proceeding against young offenders’, Cuadernos de Doctrina y Jurisprudencia Penal, Casación, IV (in Spanish).
2004. ‘More rights, more protection? Women and the Inter-American system for the protection of human rights’, Más Derecho, IV, 4 (in Spanish).
2004. ‘Legal protection of children in armed conflicts under International Humanitarian Law’, Lecciones y Ensayos, 80 (in Spanish).
2003. ‘On the constitutionality of the prerogative of the judge to impose a penalty higher than that requested by the prosecutor. A critical analysis of the conclusions in “Fiscal ante Tribunal de Casación solicita Acuerdo Plenario”’, CDJP, Casación, III (in Spanish).
2002. ‘“Adhesion” in the Penal Procedural Code: an extension to procedural time limits?’, CDJP, Casación, II (in Spanish).
Book Chapters
2014 (forthcoming). 'Holding immigration (criminally) accountable' in S. Pickering (ed.), Routledge Handbook on Migration and Crime. Abingdon: Routledge.
2013 (forthcoming). ‘The Criminalization of Immigration in the United Kingdom’ in A. Ackerman and R. Furman (eds.),The Criminalization of Immigration: Contexts and Consequences. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
2007. ‘Limited responsibilities: state and individual responsibility through the lense of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’, in J. Otero and P. Eiroa (eds.), Memoria y Derecho Penal, Colección ¿Más derecho?, Buenos Aires: Fabián di Plácido (in Spanish).
2003. ‘Notes on the “adhesion” in appeal proceedings under the Penal Procedural Code: an analysis of recent jurisprudence’, in Los recursos en el proceso penal, Buenos Aires: Del Puerto (in Spanish).
Book Reviews
2013 (forthcoming), 'Us & Them? The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Control' by B. Anderson. Theoretical Criminology.
2012. ‘Globalization and Borders. Death at the Global Frontier’ by L. Weber and S. Pickering. British Journal of Criminology 52(6).
2012. ‘Law as Punishment/ Law as Regulation’ edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas and Martha Merrill Umphrey. Rutgers University’s Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books.
2011. ‘Regulating Deviance. The Redirection of Criminalisation and the Futures of Criminal Law’ edited by B. Mc Sherry, A. Norrie and S. Bronitt. Theoretical Criminology 15(4).
2006. ‘Natural Born Celebrities. Serial Killers in American Culture’ by D. Schmid. BJC 46(3).
2005. ‘Researching Gender Violence: Feminist Methodology in Action’ edited by T. Skinner, M. Hester and E. Malos. BJC45(6).
Interests
Research: criminalisation, immigration, criminal law, regulation, human rights, criminal justice
Other details
Correspondence address:
Centre for Criminology
Manor Road Building
Manor Road
Oxford OX1 3UQ
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