The projects in this research group engage with violence in its multiple forms, as productive, relational and situated phenomena. Drawing from urban, legal and political anthropology, as well as from critical criminology and prison studies, we seek to produce nuanced understandings of the ways in which people at the margins of society negotiate access to power, resources, and justice. In doing so, we engage ordering, confining and justice-seeking practices, both on part of the authorities and those targeted for control.