Professor Dewey’s research and teaching focus on the intersections between violence and poverty in women’s criminal justice system involvement, an area in which she has an established record of academic, professional, and collaborative leadership at the community, state, federal, and international levels. Reaching beyond disciplinary confines, her research results have shaped policy and practice through twelve books and over one hundred papers, including substantive reports for UN Women, the US Census Bureau, Planned Parenthood, the Correctional Education Association, the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the Wyoming Department of Corrections. Her work has also received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Microsoft Philanthropies, and numerous other entities. Results of these projects have featured in national media outlets such as The Chronicle of Higher Education, PBS, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, and The Nation. In addition to her academic research and teaching responsibilities, Dr. Dewey has performed extensive pro bono work for a variety of criminal justice agencies, including the Wyoming Department of Corrections, where she held a Central Office staff badge and founded a free college-in-prison program.

Outlaw Women: Prison, Violence, and Poverty in the American West. New York: New York University Press.

Telling My Story: A Collection of Writing by Incarcerated Women.

The Difference a Job Makes: Licit and Illicit Work Experiences and Aspirations at a Transitional Housing Facility for Women Leaving the Sex Industry.

Women of the Street: How the Criminal Justice-Social Services Alliance Fails     Women in Prostitution. New York: New York University Press.

Higher Education in Prison: A Pilot Study of Approaches and Modes of Delivery in Eight Prison Administrations.

Neon Wasteland: On Love, Motherhood, and Sex Work in a Rust Belt Town. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.

Hollow Bodies: Institutional Responses to Sex Trafficking in Armenia, Bosnia and India. Sterling, Virginia: Kumarian Press.

The Routledge International Handbook of Sex Industry Research. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.