Sarah M. Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice, and she has a Ph.D. in Criminology, Law & Society from the University of California, Irvine (United States).
Her research interests focus on gender, race, and crime; corrections and alternative approaches to justice, such as restorative justice; and criminological theory, specifically justice theory. Her largest research project investigates the internal prison grievance system, the legal avenue prisoners must use to contest their conditions of confinement.