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Sergio Grossi

Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of Criminology • PhD • John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York

Sergio Grossi is Assistant Professor of Criminology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

His research focuses on education in prison, community sanctions and the human rights of people in prison.

He holds a joint doctorate from the University of Padua and the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Brazil, and has carried out research at the Institute of Criminology in Cambridge and at the Sorbonne.

He won the Giulio Regeni Prize of the Italian Ministry of University and Research for research on human rights in prison and holds a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship from the European Union.

Background

  • Assistant Professor of Criminology (tenure track)John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
  • Ambassador of the European Prison Education AssociationEPEA · since 2024
  • Co-Chair, Working Group on Community SanctionsEuropean Society of Criminology · 2023
  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie FellowUniversidad Complutense de Madrid and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne · 2023
  • Giulio Regeni PrizeMinistry of University and Research · 2023

Their appearances for the Movement

“Prison does not rehabilitate. The research says so.” | Sergio Grossi, John Jay College (CUNY)

Sergio Grossi

Reinserirsi nella società

June 24, 2026

The Movement they vouch for

We go inside the institutions, follow each case one by one, and build the tools that make the rights of those inside count.
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