Education
Ph.D. in Criminology, University of Delaware , 2016
M.S. in Criminal Justice, Youngstown State University, 2011
B.A. Sociology and Psychology, Kent State University, 2005
Areas of Expertise
I am a qualitative researcher with scholarly interests in the experience of incarceration by imprisoned individuals and their families, carceral environments and practices, and comparative models of corrections. I am also interested in the use of critical theoretical frameworks to examine how systems of power, privilege, and oppression share what we criminalize, who we criminalize, and State responses to crime.
Recent Publications
Dietsche, L. & Kilmer, A. (2023). Poetic Inquiry Criminology: Opportunities for imaginative scholarship, healing, and transformative justice. In D. Rudes, K. Kras, T. Carter, & G. Armstrong (Eds.), Handbook on Prisons and Jails (Vol. 8). Routledge.
Kilmer, A., & Antunes, M. J. L. (2023). Mass incarceration and reproductive justice: An abolitionist perspective. In A. Conyers, V. Lynn, & M. Leigey (Eds.), Mass Incarceration in the 21st Century: Realities and Reflections. Routledge.
Kilmer, A., Abdel-Salam, S., & Silver, I. A. (2023). “The Uniform’s in the Way”: Navigating the tension between security and therapeutic roles in a rehabilitation-focused prison in Norway. Criminal Justice and Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1177/009385482211435
Bratina, M., Abdel-Salam, S., Antonio, M., & Kilmer, A. (2023). Rapport and relationship building in a therapeutic community: Examining the dynamic between correctional officers and incarcerated persons. Criminal Justice Policy Review, https://doi.org/10.1177/0887403421106909
Abdel-Salam, S. & Kilmer, A. (2022). “A prison is a prison”: Perspectives from incarcerated men on the therapeutic and punitive aspects of Halden Prison in Norway. British Journal of Criminology, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac054
Leon, C. S., & Kilmer, A. R. (2022). “Secondary registrants”: A new conceptualization of the spread of community control. Punishment & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745221094255
Kilmer, A., & Emmert, A. (2021). Sex Offense Courts. In E. M. Ahlin & A. S. Douds (Eds.), Taking Problem-solving Courts to Scale: Diverse Applications of the Specialty Court Model (pp.267-288). Lexington Books.
Kilmer, A., & Leon, C. S. (2017). ‘Nobody worries about our children’: unseen impacts of sex offender registration on families with school-age children and implications for desistance. Criminal Justice Studies, 30(2), 181-201.
Frequently Taught Courses
CRMJ353 Theories of Crime
CRMJ356 Prisons in America
CRMJ201 Introduction to Criminology
Special topics courses on incarceration