Caroline Akers - Biography

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	Email: cga23@cam.ac.uk

Caroline Akers is a 2nd-year PhD student and is writing her dissertation on change in crime and culture across time and distance in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales during the nineteenth century under the advisement of Professor Manuel Eisner. As a student from the American South, she also holds a Master of Arts from the University of South Carolina in Criminology and Criminal Justice and a Master of Philosophy from Cambridge. Her research interests include macro-level changes across time and distance and historical criminology, in particular examining the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After completing her degree, she plans to continue working in these areas. She also hopes to expand her research to include levels of crime and cultural change throughout more of the English-speaking world, such as in Canada and Australia.