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Bosworth studied arts at the University of Western Australia. She then attended the University of Cambridge where she gained a doctoral degree in criminology.
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She is the author of a number of books, including Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women's Prisons (1999), Imprisonment (2010), (with Carolyn Hoyle) the edited book What is Criminology? (2011), (with Katja Aas) the edited book The Borders of Punishment (2013) and, most recently, the first national study of life in United Kingdom immigration removal centres, Inside Immigration Detention (2014). Mary Bosworth is United Kingdom Editor-in-Chief of the journal Theoretical Criminology. She worked in the United States for eight years, returning to the United Kingdom in 2004.
As of 2014 she was Professor of Criminology and Fellow of Street Cross College at the University of Oxford in England as well as Professor in the school of Social Sciences at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
