Jessica holds a SSHRC post-doctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia's Allard School of Law. Her research broadly examines the operations and effects of processes interweaving between the immigration and criminal punishment systems in Canada. Her doctoral work considered how collateral immigration consequences inform decision making on sentence in Ontario based courts. Jessica's postdoctoral work builds from this project, considering how removal decisions are made in practice by actors in the immigration system, including through the examination of criminal materials