Dr. Whalley’s research and teaching interests include sexual and gender violence, institutional and cultural responses to sexual violence, criminal-legal systems, social constructions of serial killing and mass murder, critical criminology, abolition, and transformative justice. She uses ethnographic, community-based, transnational, feminist, and mixed methods in her work. She has published research on carceral and abolitionist feminisms, rape crisis centers, institutional sexual assault response, and incarcerated women’s mental health and sexual trauma. She also organizes with local community organizations working to end the use of incarceration. Areas of specialization: Sexual violence, institutional responses to sexual and gender violence, rape culture, abolition, critical criminology, transnational research, feminist criminology.
