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Philip Goodman received his PhD in 2010 from the University of California, Irvine, in Criminology, Law and Society. Earlier that same year, he started as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. In 2017, he received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor. Goodman uses prisons and punishment—and crime and law, more generally—as lenses through which to consider questions of inequality, penal politics, and the micro-dynamics of everyday life. At the heart of his scholarship is an attempt to ask how and why punishment changes over time, why it varies across place, and how it is experienced today.