Michael Braun
Email: mbraun@uci.edu
Michael Braun graduated Summa Cum Laude after earning his B.S. in Sociology at Southern Oregon University. He is currently in his second year as a graduate student at the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and is a prisoner advocate for UCI's Social/Behavioral Institutional Review Board (IRB). His research interests include privatization of penal institutions, the use of prisoners as private sector laborers, and reintegration of prisoners into society.
His research interests stem from personal experiences within the criminal justice system as well as his academic undertakings. Between the years 1996 and 2000, he spent roughly 4 years behind bars in Oregon for crimes related to Methamphethamines. He employs a critical, ethnographic approach to interrogate historical, political, economic and ideological forces that generate crime and human suffering and how those forces are used to justify the ways people defined as deviant have been and continue to be treated. He focuses on the perspectives of people who get caught up in the criminal justice system and their loved ones, how they make sense of their worlds, and what they do to maintain dignity and self-respect.
Michael Braun graduated Summa Cum Laude after earning his B.S. in Sociology at Southern Oregon University. He is currently in his second year as a graduate student at the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and is a prisoner advocate for UCI's Social/Behavioral Institutional Review Board (IRB). His research interests include privatization of penal institutions, the use of prisoners as private sector laborers, and reintegration of prisoners into society.
His research interests stem from personal experiences within the criminal justice system as well as his academic undertakings. Between the years 1996 and 2000, he spent roughly 4 years behind bars in Oregon for crimes related to Methamphethamines. He employs a critical, ethnographic approach to interrogate historical, political, economic and ideological forces that generate crime and human suffering and how those forces are used to justify the ways people defined as deviant have been and continue to be treated. He focuses on the perspectives of people who get caught up in the criminal justice system and their loved ones, how they make sense of their worlds, and what they do to maintain dignity and self-respect.
