Katie Quinn

Katie Quinn

Contact Information:

kquinn13@syr.edu

315.443.5758

304 Maxwell Hall

Curriculum Vitae

Katie Quinn

Assistant Professor, Sociology Department

Research Affiliate, Center for Policy Research

Courses

  • 2024 Fall
    • SOC 334 Criminal Justice

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, 2021

Bio

Kaitlyn (Katie) Quinn (she/her/hers) joins the Sociology Department in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in fall 2024 as a tenure-track assistant professor. She will teach classes for the integrated learning major in law, society and policy, including Criminology; Criminal Justice, and Gender, Crime and Justice.

Prior to joining Syracuse University, Quinn was an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) where she taught the Sociology of Punishment and Crime and Justice in a Globalized World. Prior to joining the faculty at UMSL, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and a research associate at the University of Nottingham.

Quinn’s research focuses on how nonprofit organizations and adjacent community actors participate in criminal justice processes and contend with criminal justice problems, especially as they relate to gender and crime. Her current projects draw on qualitative research methods to advance scholarly understandings of how punishment operates in and through communities, demonstrate how and why helping relationships can reproduce and/or contest existing social inequalities, and account for variegation and contestation beneath the veneers of penal stability and consensus.

Her research focuses on Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. She has published in a range of leading journals, including Punishment & Society, British Journal of Criminology, and Voluntas.

Quinn’s research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ontario Graduate Scholarships and the American Society of Criminology Division on Women and Crime.

Quinn received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Toronto in 2021, an M.A. in sociology from the University of Alberta in 2015 and a B.A. in philosophy from Washington State University in 2013.

Research Grant Awards and Projects

Sponsored by Intersecting Institutions of Criminal Justice and Injustice Partnership.

Sponsored by Law and Society Association Early Career Workshop Travel Award.

Sponsored by Ontario Graduate Scholarship.

Sponsored by American Society of Criminology (ASC) Division on Women and Crime Aruna Jain International Travel Grant.

Sponsored by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement.

Sponsored by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Joseph-Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholarship.

Selected Publications

Presentations and Events

Goodman, P., Quinn, K., Social Analysis of Penality across Boundaries Workshop Series, The Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research, "Agonism, Palimpsests, and Thinking about Penal Change" (2023)

Quinn, K., Salole, A., McAleese, ., CRIMVOL: The International Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector Research Network, "Hidden Figures: A Manifesto for Naming the Penal Voluntary Sector" (2023)

Annual meeting of the Law and Society Association, "Social Distance and Inequality in the Penal Voluntary Sector: Troubling Volunteers’ Relationships with Criminalized Women" (2023)

Annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology Association, "'Good Intentions Pave Many Roads. Not All of Them Lead to Hell': Understanding Volunteers' Work with Criminalized Women in Canada" (2022)

Buck, G., Tomczak, P., Quinn, K., Annual meeting of the British Society of Criminology, "Lived Experience in the Penal Voluntary Sector" (2022)

Goodman, P., Quinn, K., Annual meeting of the Law and Society Association, "The Palimpsest of Outdoor Penal Labor in California 1915-2000" (2022)

Quinn, K., Tomczak, P., Buck, G., Annual meeting of the Canadian Sociological Association, "All of the Bits that Actually Make a Difference’: Examining the Voluntary Sector’s Capacity for Social Problem Solving in Criminal Justice" (2021)

Annual meeting of the Canadian Sociological Association, "Power and Inequality in the Penal Voluntary Sector: Examining Relationships Between Volunteers and Criminalized Women" (2021)

Tomczak, P., Quinn, K., Traynor, ., Wainwright, L., Hyde, S., Prisoner Death Investigations: Improving Safety in Prisons and Societies?, "The Absence of Systemic Contextual Hazards in Prisoner Death Investigations" (2021)

Annual Meetings of the Criminology Consortium, "'A Field of Wanting to Help': How Diverse Forms of Expertise are Mobilized in Efforts to Help Criminalized Individuals" (2020)

Quinn, K., Goodman, P., Centre for Criminological Research at the University of Alberta, "Becoming Ideal: Organizational Variation and the Penal Subject" (2020)

Annual meeting of the European Society of Criminology, "Dispositions that Matter: Investigating Criminalized Women’s Resettlement through Their (Trans)Carceral Habitus" (2020)

Quinn, K., Tomczak, P., Annual Meetings of the Criminology Consortium, "Emotional Labour in Criminal Justice and Criminology" (2020)

Annual meeting of the European Society of Criminology, "Inside the Penal Voluntary Sector: Perspectives on Helping Criminalized Women" (2019)

Quinn, K., Canossini, E., Evans, V., Annual meeting of the Law and Society Association, "Palimpsestic Penality: The Reconfiguration of Penal Regimes and Logics in Black Mirror" (2019)

Tomczak, P., Quinn, K., Social Work Education and Research Conference, University of Manchester, "Practitioner Emotions in the Penal Voluntary Sector: Voices from England and Canada" (2019)

Author Meets Critic Session at the Annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, "Prison Suicide: What Happens Afterwards?" (2019)

Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, "Theorizing: The Intersections of Theory and Method" (2019)

Quinn, K., Tomczak, P., Annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, "What We Talk About When We Talk About the PVS" (2019)