Kayla Martensen, ABD

Courses Taught

• CJC 101 - Criminal Justice in a Global Context
• CJC 345 - Social Justice and Crime
• CJC 372 - Race, Ethnicity & Criminal Justice System

Awards

2020   Feminist Criminology Graduate Research Scholarship,  $5000 Division on Women and Crime, American Society of Criminology    
2019   Institute of Race and Public Policy,  $1,500 University of Illinois Chicago                                   

Selected Publications

Martensen, K. (2022). Prison is not Feminist, Service is not Liberation: Punishment, Service and a Web of Detainment. In Bierria, A., Caruthers, J. &, Lober, B. (Eds.) Abolition Feminisms: Feminist Ruptures Against the Carceral State. Haymarket Books.

Wong, R. & Martensen, K. (2022). Let's start talking: A reflective essay on minority students' experiences in academic spaces, publishing, and journal involvement. Learned Publishing, 35: 413–417. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1471 

Martensen, K. (2022). Book Review: Latinas in the Criminal Justice System: Victims, Targets, and Offenders. eds Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko. Theoretical Criminology, 26(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806221089669

Martensen, K. & Richie, B.E. (2021). Prison Abolition in Global Perspective. In Oxford Encyclopedia of International Criminology. Oxford. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.625

Martensen, K. (2021). Sanctuary?: A Discussion on Latinx/a Women and Girls in a Carceral State. In Leonard, L. (Ed), People, Process, and Practice in Criminal Justice. IGI Global. 10.4018/978-1-7998-6646-6.ch002

Richie, B., Kanuha, V.K. & Martensen, K. (2021).  Colluding with and Resisting the State: Organizing Against Gender Violence in the U.S. Feminist Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1557085120987607

Martensen, K. (2020). Review of Carceral State Theories and Applications. Social Compass, 14(7). https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12801

Martensen, K. (2020). Teaching Abolition to Future Police Officers: A Reflective Essay on Pedagogies of Response and Care. Contemporary Justice Review, 23(3). https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2020.1755848

Maniglia, R. and Martensen, K.  (2020). Introduction to Special Issue on Teaching Social Justice: The Classroom as a Space for Social Transformation. Contemporary Justice Review, 23(3). https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2020.1755933

Richie, B. and Martensen, K. (2020). Resisting Carcerality, Embracing Abolition: Implications for Feminist Social Work Practice. Affilia, 35(1), 12-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886109919897