Dr Sergio Grossi he/him

Sergio Grossi is Assistant Professor of Criminology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY), and Associate Researcher at the Sorbonne Institute of Legal and Philosophical Sciences (Paris 1).

His research examines punishment, prison education, reintegration, community sanctions, and alternatives to incarceration through comparative research across the Global North and Global South. He has conducted research in several countries, including Brazil, Italy, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. His work explores how educational and reentry practices can reduce social exclusion while critically interrogating the ways in which penal reform may reproduce carceral logics.

Sergio is Ambassador for the European Prison Education Association, Co-Chair of the European Society of Criminology Working Group on Community Sanctions and Measures, Editor of the Journal of Prison Education Research, and a member of Border Criminologies at the University of Oxford.

Recent Publications:

Grossi, S. (2026). Global South Generative Justice? A Study of Education and Reintegration, in “Prisons without Police” in Brazil [Peer-reviewed and forthcoming in 2026]. In F. McNeill, M. Corcoran, & B. Weaver (Eds.), Generative Justice: Crime, Punishment and Solidarity. Policy Press.

Grossi, S., Ostronoff, L. J., & Adorno, S. (2026). Pandemic-Obedient Disobedience? The Response of a Criminal Organization in Bolsonaro´s Brazil [Revise and Resubmit]. Justice, Power and Resistance.

Grossi, S., & Augelli, A. (2025). The Influence of Spirituality on the Education of Incarcerated Individuals: Reflections on the Exceptional Experience of Police-Free Prisons in Brazil. Religions, 16(5), 654. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16050654.