Ben Fleury-Steiner
Ben Fleury-Steiner
Director of Graduate Studies
Joint Appointment: Legal Studies | Faculty Associate: Center for Drug and Health Studies
Education
- Ph.D. – Northeastern University, Boston, MA
- M.A. – Northeastern University, Boston, MA
- B.S. – Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Biography
Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, Ph.D., is a professor and director of graduate studies with the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. His research focuses on racial and ethnic inequality in the criminal justice system and broader challenges to communities. He examines the intersections of inequality, punishment, and social control in a variety of institutional contexts, including death penalty judgments, the identity politics of criminal justice policy and lawmaking, and the governance of historically marginalized groups.
Fleury-Steiner has published numerous scholarly articles and five books. His most recent research project focuses on stigma, drug addiction, and community responses to the opioid epidemic.
He is the author of four books and a co-edited monograph, including The Pains of Mass Imprisonment (Routledge, 2014, co-authored with Jamie Longazel). His latest book is The Elgar Companion on Capital Punishment and Society. (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, co-edited with Austin Sarat).
