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Professor Jennifer Turner is a faculty member in the Cultural and Political Geography department at University of Trier, Germany, where she joined in October 2023. She previously led the "Crime and Carcerality" research group at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg after moving to Germany in 2020. Her academic journey includes positions as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Leicester and Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at University of Liverpool. She maintains an affiliation as Senior Honorary Research Fellow at University of Birmingham and serves on the committee of the international Carceral Geography Working Group.
Dr. Turner's research primarily focuses on:
- Prison spaces and their impact on both staff and incarcerated persons
- The relationship between criminal justice systems and wider society
- The theoretical lens of 'carcerality' extending to military and ocean governance
- Policy-oriented and ethically-focused research in carceral contexts
Her recent publications reveal a strong emphasis on the physical and psychological environments of prisons, correctional staff experiences, and connections between military and carceral institutions. Her interdisciplinary work spans geography, criminology, environmental psychology, and sociology, with particular attention to spatial dimensions of incarceration, control, and resistance across multiple contexts from traditional prisons to ocean governance.
Her significant research projects include:
- Carceral seas: Ocean governance beyond boundaries
- CCWORK: A longitudinal study of Canadian correctional workers' well-being
- Correctional staff in Canada: Understanding military-civilian transition
- The persistence of the Victorian prison: Alteration, inhabitation, obsolescence and affirmative design
Dr. Turner has established extensive collaborations with researchers across Europe and North America, particularly with Dominique Moran, Rose Ricciardelli, and Kimberley Peters. Her work has significant implications for prison design, correctional officer training, and policy reform in criminal justice systems, with recent attention to environmental factors like lighting, air quality, and spatial organization within correctional facilities.
