Sergio Grossi, PhD
Sergio Grossi is Assistant Professor of Criminology (tenure track) in the Department of Sociology at John Jay College (City University of New York) and Associate Researcher at the Sorbonne Institute of Legal and Philosophical Sciences.
He has conducted research at various institutions, including the University of Cambridge, Paris Nanterre, the Complutense University of Madrid, the University of São Paulo, the Federal Fluminense University of Rio de Janeiro, and the Universities of Bologna and Padua.
He has been invited to Colombia University and UNESCO as a visiting scholar, and he has served on scientific committees and as an expert for the UNESCO Chair in Applied Research for Education in Prison and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI).
He has been awarded various highly competitive grants across different continents, including the European Union's Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) grant, the Brazilian São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), and the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research (MUR), which has also awarded him for the impact of his research in advancing the defense of human rights.
Research Interests
Dr. Grossi's research focuses on an international comparative analysis of best practices in the domains of education and reintegration for incarcerated persons. He worked as a social educator in shelters for asylum seekers in Bologna and participated in the Action Research working group on migrants' rights launched by Amnesty International Italy.
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Selected publications
The articles can be downloaded on several sites:
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Articles in peer reviewed journals:
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Grossi, S., Ostronoff, L. J., & Adorno, S. (2024). Pandemic-Obedient Disobedience? The Response of a Criminal Organization in Bolsonaro´s Brazil [under review]. Justice, Power and Resistance.
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Grossi, S. (2021). Rethinking Social Reintegration and Prison: A Critical Analysis of an Educational Proposal for an Alternative Model in Brazil, Journal of Prison Education and Reentry (JPER), 7(2), pp. 183–198. doi: https://doi.org/10.25771/9bjw-p777.
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Grossi, S. (2021). A questão prisional entre educação, reintegração e abolição: reflexões sobre o modelo das Associações de Proteção e Assistência aos Condenados (APACs) no Brasil. (The prison issue between education, reintegration and abolition [...]). Educação e Cultura Contemporânea, 18(53), 06–25. https://doi.org/10.5935/2238-1279.20210028
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Grossi, S. (2020). Educazione e carcere - una proposta dal Brasile (Education and prison - a proposal from Brazil), Educazione Aperta - rivista di pedagogia critica, (8), pp. 109–132. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4394348.
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Grossi, S. (2018) Uma pedagogia contra a irresponsabilidade das prisões? (A pedagogy against the irresponsability of prisons?), Revista de Educación de Adultos y Procesos Formativos, (7), pp. 121–133. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.29500.16003.
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Books:
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Grossi, S. (2024). Prisoners’ Lives Matter: Lessons on Education, Rehabilitation and Abolition from a Prison without Police in the Global South [publication proposal received].
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Grossi, S. (2024). Un’altra educazione è possibile nelle prigioni? Il caso dell’Associazione di Protezione e Assistenza ai Condannati (APAC) (Is Another Kind of Education Possible in Prisons? The Case of the Association for the Protection and Assistance of the Convicted (APAC) [publication proposal received].
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Grossi, S. (2024). Uma outra educação é possível nas prisões? O caso da APAC (Is Another Kind of Education Possible in Prisons? The Case of the Association for the Protection and Assistance of the Convicted (APAC)´ [publication proposal received].
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Book chapters:
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Grossi, S. (2024). Global South Youth Education – Moving from the Pedagogy of the Oppressed to the Pedagogy of Hope in Educational Communities in Brazil [Accepted by the publisher, editing in progress]. In A. Ahmed Shafi, S. Case, N. Hazel, & H. Kent (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Children’s Education in Custodial and Youth Justice Settings. Palgrave.
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Grossi, S. (2024). Global South Generative Justice? A Study of Education and Reintegration, in “Prisons without Police” in Brazil [chapter proposal accepted]. In F. McNeill, M. Corcoran, & B. Weaver (Eds.), Generative Justice: Crime, Punishment and Solidarity. Policy Press.
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Grossi, S. (2024). Southern Exceptionalism? First Results of a Comparative Study of Best Practices in the Education and Reintegration of Imprisoned Persons, in Punishment at the Margins. Explorations from Latin America [in press]. Book based on the University of Oxford conference “Punishment in Global Peripheries.”
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Grossi, S. (2024). Uma prisão sem polícia? Reflexões sobre educação, reinserção e abolição no modelo APAC no Brasil [A Prison without Police? Reflections on Education, Reintegration and Abolition in the APAC Model in Brazil] [Chapter accepted, editing in progress]. In M. Alanís (Ed.), Tras las rejas: Perspectivas multidiplinarias sobre la realidad penitenciaria en América Latina [Behind Bars: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Reality of Prisons in Latin America]. Editorial científica universitaria.
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Grossi, S. (2024). ¿Educar para una nueva cultura carcelaria? Una alternativa brasileña y el código de honor (Educate for a New Prison Culture? A Brazilian Alternative and the Honour Code) [in press]. In Repensando la privación de libertad desde un diálogo de saberes (Rethinking the Deprivation of Liberty from the Perspective of a Dialogue of Knowledge). Comisión Sectorial de Investigación Científica.[...]