Silvia Gomes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick (UK) and a member of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the same university. She has a PhD in Sociology from the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Minho (Portugal), is currently co-coordinator of the Thematic Section on the Sociology of Law and Justice of the Portuguese Sociological Association (APS) and a member of the European Society of Criminology (ESC) and the British Society of Criminology (BSC). Author of several books, book chapters and articles in scientific journals, her main areas of research are prison studies, crime and social inequalities, intersectional approaches, crime and the media, and, more recently, critical studies of reentry, recidivism and criminal desistance. Other publications include the books: Female Crime and Delinquency in Portugal: In and Out of the Criminal Justice System (Palgrave, 2018), Prisons, State and Violence (Springer, 2019), Incarceration and Generation, volumes 1 and 2 (Palgrave, 2021, 2022), Gender, Prison and Reentry Experiences: A Matter of Time (Routledge, 2024).
