Sarah Tosh

Sarah Tosh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University-Camden, where she teaches courses on inequality in criminal justice, drugs and society, migration and deportation, the sociology of deviance, and criminal justice research methods. Her research examines the punitive intersections between drug, crime, and immigration policy in the United States. Her book, The Immigration Law Death Penalty: Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance, is forthcoming in October 2023 from New York University Press. She holds a PhD in sociology from The Graduate Center, City University of New York.  

Publications:

• Sarah Tosh. 2022. “Mandatory Detention for Aggravated Felonies: Crimmigration Law and the Reproduction of Inequality.” Law & Policy. https://doi.org/10.1111/lapo.12179

• Sarah Tosh. 2021. “Critical Criminology and the Modern Deportation Regime.” The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 60(3), pp. 409-429.

• Sarah Tosh, Ulla Berg, and Kenneth Sebastian León. 2021. “Migrant Detention and COVID-19: Pandemic Responses in Four New Jersey Detention Centers.” Journal of Migration and Human Security, 9(1), pp. 44-62. https://doi.org/10.1177/23315024211003855

Media Appearances/Speaking Engagements:

• 2023 “Mandatory Detention for Criminal Convictions and the Growth of the Modern Deportation Regime.” Elizabeth Detention Center: Past, Present, & Future Symposium. Rutgers University, New Brunswick. October 27.

• 2023 “Book Talk: The Immigration Law Death Penalty: Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance.” The Criminal Justice Doctoral Students Association, The Department of Sociology, and the Center for Transgressive Studies. John Jay College of Criminal Justice. October 20.

• 2023 “Broken Windows Policing and the Deportation of Black Immigrants: The Case of New York City.” Co-Presenter with Edwin Grimsley. Society for the Study of Social Problems, Philadelphia, August 18-20.

Previous Organizations:

• The Graduate Center, CUNY

• National Science Foundation

• New York University

Accomplishments:

• Book: Sarah Tosh. 2023. The Immigration Law Death Penalty: Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance. New York University Press.

• NSF Grant: 2021-2023 National Science Foundation. Division of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, Law & Science Program. “Collaborative Research: The Criminal Deportation Pipeline in New York City.” Co-PI with David Brotherton, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. ($371,967)

• Rutgers-Camden Chancellor's Grant: 2023-2024 Chancellor's Grant for Assistant Professor Research Development, Rutgers University-Camden. “‘Crimmigration’ Advisal in Public Defense Offices: A Comparative Study of Immigrant-Receiving Cities in the United States.” ($19,885)

Upcoming projects:

• Sarah Tosh, Edwin Grimsley, and Nicholas Rodrigo, eds. Forthcoming. Special Issue of Critical Criminology on “The Criminalization to Deportation Pipeline in the United States.”

• Lorena Avila Jaimes and Sarah Tosh. Lorena Avila Jaimes and Sarah Tosh. “The Institutional Hearing Program and the Incarceration-to-Deportation-Pipeline.”

• Edwin Grimsley and Sarah Tosh. “Broken Windows Policing and the Deportation of Black Immigrants: The Case of New York City.”

Book talk on The Immigration Law Death Penalty: Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance (NYU Press, 2023) by Dr. Sarah Tosh

https://globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/event/immigration-law-death-penalty-aggravated-felonies-deportation-and-legal-resistance

My work examines the reproduction of racial and social inequality through intertwining systems of drug, criminal justice, and immigration policy.