Lara Schiffrin-Sands is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology. Broadly, her research interests include the carceral state, childhood, family life and the sociology of emotions. Her dissertation draws from 12 months of embedded ethnographic fieldwork in a rural southern state. It started as a project about school based law enforcement in rural schooling, but quickly evolved into a multi-sited study. The project follows a group of kids and their families as they navigate school, therapy, and in some cases, juvenile court. It interrogates the role of these institutions in the lives of these kids, as well as their consequences on their families lives more broadly. Previous to doctoral work, Lara received a dual BA from Sciences Po, Paris (where she learned the value of observation in a foreign land) and University College London.
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