Amanda Sheely
Biography
Amanda Sheely is an Associate Professor (contractually limited term appointment) in the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto and the Interim Director for the Centre for the Study of the United States. The overall aim of her research is to understand when state intervention in the lives of economically disadvantaged and racialized families is helpful and when it is harmful. To meet this aim, Amanda has conducted research examining welfare, the criminal legal system, and the child protective system. Her research engages with scholarship across multiple disciplines, including sociology, social policy, criminology, and history. She has published in Punishment & Society, Crime & Deviance, Social Policy & Administration, and Social Science & Medicine. Her latest project, Processing Families, draws on archival and juvenile court data from Los Angeles in the 1920s and 1930s to understand how the court developed methods to identify, classify, and intervene in families.
Select publications
- Gornick, J.C., Maldonado, L.C & Sheely, A. (2022). Single-parent families and public policy in high-income countries: Introduction to the volume. ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
- Gornick, J.C., Maldonado, L.C & Sheely, A. (2022). Effective policies for single-parent families and prospects for policy reforms in the United States: Concluding reflections. ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
- Sheely, A. (2020). State supervision, punishment and poverty: The case of drug bans on welfare receipt. Punishment & Society. 23(3): 413-435. doi: 10.1177/1462474520959433.
- Sheely, A. (2019). Criminal justice involvement and employment outcomes among women. Crime & Delinquency, 66(6-7): 973-994. doi:10.1177/0011128719860833.