Staci Strobl

Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Shenandoah University Shenandoah University

Dr. Staci Strobl is an Assistant Dean and Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.  She is the author of Sectarian Order in Bahrain: The Social and Colonial Origins of Criminal Justice (2018, Lexington Books).  In 2009, she won the Radzinowicz Memorial Prize for her work in the British Journal of Criminology on the criminalization of female domestic workers in Bahrain.  Her main area of specialization is policing and issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and religious identity in the Arabian Gulf.

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Social Theory: Loïc Wacquant As an interdisciplinary sociologist, Loïc Wacquant fuses two approaches: the material, associated with Marxist thought, and the symbolic as developed by Pierre Bourdieu, to produce a novel and highly relevant social theory. Broadly speaking, Wacquant... Read More
​ A Curious Form of Justice in Modern Bahraini History: Being Hard on Shi’a and Soft on Sunnis This piece is taken from the SEPAD report ‘Sectarianism in the Longue Duree’ available here: https://www.sepad.org.uk/report/sectarianism-in-the-longue-dureeSince the Bahrain Arab Spring protests in 2011, human rights groups estimate that approximately... Read More
Disposable Lives: Bahrain’s Sacrifice Zones This essay is part of a SEPAD report reflecting on the Middle East in 2050 The crisis of political repression in Bahrain continues to challenge Western foreign policy approaches to the country.  Long-standing United Kingdom (UK) and United States... Read More
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