She is the author of a number of books, including Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women’s Prisons (1999), Explaining U.S.
(2011), (with Katja Aas) the edited book The Borders of Punishment (2013), Inside Immigration Detention (2014), Bordered Lives (2020) with Khadija von Zinnenburg Carrol and Christoph Balzar, and Supply Chain Justice (2025).
She then attended the University of Cambridge where she gained an MPhil and a doctoral degree in criminology.
She is currently Professor of Criminology and Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford in England.
Bosworth has published a number of papers and books on race, gender and citizenship, particularly on prisons and immigration detention.