Michelle Brown
Contributor
Michelle Brown is professor of sociology and co-director of the Appalachian Justice Research Center at the University of Tennessee. Her work focuses on the rise of the carceral state and attendant social movements directed at abolition, ways to build more effective forms of community safety, and strategies to shift media narratives on crime and punishment. Brown is the author of The Culture of Punishment and co-editor of The Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture. She also directs the digital project, Abolition Now: Images for Study & Struggle.
