Research Interests: Humanistic Criminology, Effects of Long-term Imprisonment, Capital Punishment and Mitigation, Prison Ethnography

在我本科期间研究暴力罪犯的经历，让我接触到了工作人员和囚犯之间的不平等权力动态，以及印度监狱生活的道德价值体系。几名囚犯透露，长期监禁带来的耻辱损害了他们的社会关系和个人关系，阻碍了他们在自由世界的前景。在剑桥攻读犯罪学研究硕士学位将使我能够与在监狱研究中心进行开创性定性研究的学者合作。在犯罪学研究所，我渴望学习艾莉森·利布林教授和本·克鲁教授的课程。他们在鉴赏性探究方面的学识，以及监狱生活的社会文化、时间和情感层面，促使我深入思考囚犯将监禁的痛苦内在化的无数方式。我在NUALS指导青少年司法之家的学生的时间教会了我使用充满活力的教育和创伤信息干预而不是惩罚性制裁来解决越轨行为的好处。因此，我非常高兴能通过与剑桥一起学习方案合作来支持被监禁人口和教育机构之间的伙伴关系。我在剑桥获得的洞察力将为我的职业生涯做好准备，我将致力于制定安全、人道和有效的监狱政策，为囚犯提供重新融入现实世界所需的资源。

Studying the experiences of violent offenders during my undergraduate degree exposed me to the unequal power dynamics between staff and prisoners and the moral value systems governing prison life in India. Several prisoners revealed how the stigma accompanying long term incarceration impaired their social and personal relationships and hindered their prospects in the free world. Pursuing the MPhil in Criminological Research at Cambridge will enable me to collaborate with scholars conducting groundbreaking qualitative research at the Prisons Research Centre. At the Institute of Criminology, I am eager to take courses by Prof. Alison Liebling and Prof. Ben Crewe. Their scholarship on appreciative inquiry and the sociocultural, temporal and emotive dimensions of prison life has motivated me to think deeply about the myriad ways in which inmates internalise the pains of imprisonment. My time at NUALS mentoring students from juvenilejustice homes taught me the benefits of addressing deviant behaviour using dynamic educational and trauma-informed interventions rather than punitive sanctions. Therefore, I am most excited to support partnerships between incarcerated populations and educational institutions by working with the Cambridge Learning Together programme. The insights I gain at Cambridge will prepare me for a career dedicated to creating safe, humane and effective prison policies that equip prisoners with the resources they need to reintegrate into the real world.