Amelia Roskin-Frazee

Amelia Roskin-Frazee is a Sociology Ph.D. Candidate and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on the effect of social movements on the law, legal consciousness, and the relationship between identity categories and sex crime prosecutions. Her current book project draws on interviews with people working in the criminal legal system in California, incarceration data from state departments of corrections, and an analysis of historical movements in the U.S. to explore why progressive prosecutors and law enforcement officers adopt similar stances to tough-on-crime prosecutors and law enforcement officers in sex crime cases, and how progressive prosecutors rationalize their sex crime case decisions. Amelia’s research has previously appeared in Sociology Compass, Feminist Criminology, and The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy.