Santiago Amietta

Santiago Amietta holds an LLB from the National University of Córdoba (Argentina) and an MA in Sociology of Law from the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati (Basque Country, Spain). He obtained his PhD in Criminology from the School of Law, University of Manchester (UK), and joined the Department of Criminology and Sociology at Middlesex University London in 2015 as a Lecturer in Criminological Theory. He is a socio-legal researcher interested in debates surrounding the introduction of lay participation to different spheres of criminal justice – and more broadly to spheres dominated by professional expertise. He has also conducted research on everyday law and justice, punitiveness and the neoliberal governance of crime, the legal professions and children’s rights in carceral environments – with a continued regional focus on Latin America. Currently he is developing a research project on ethnic inequalities in lay participation, within a framework of discussions of state recognition of indigenous peoples, interculturalism and postcolonialism.