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Background

I joined 糖心TV in January 2023. Before that, I was a lecturer in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University (2020-2022), a researcher at the University of Minho (2019-2020), a postdoctoral teaching scholar at Florida State University (2018-2020), a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minho (2015-2019), and an invited Assistant Professor at the University of Maia (2012-2019). I completed a Licentiate degree in Sociology at the University of Minho, and a PhD in the areas of crime, ethnicities and social inequalities at the University of Minho.

Research Interests

My research interests focus mostly on two main areas: media and crime, and punishment and prisons. In terms of media and crime, my work is focused on the media representations of crime (e.g., gender violence, hate crime) or certain social groups (e.g., migrants, racial and ethnic groups). In the scope of punishment and prisons, my work has been mostly on understanding social trajectories to and out of prison, experiences of incarceration, marginalisation and vulnerability in criminal justice, and the social, cultural, political and economic dynamics underlying the different modes of punishment and incarceration. My work is generally empirically informed, explores social inequalities and applies an intersectional approach to understand a given phenomenon, usually across social class, gender, and race and ethnicity lines.

Publications

These publications are from the last five years:

Books

• 2024 GOMES, S铆lvia, ROCKER, Dixie. Gender, Prison and Reentry Experiences: A Matter of Time. Routledge.

  • Awarded the European Society of Criminology Book Award 2025.

• 2024 CARVALHO, M. J. L., DUARTE, V., GOMES, Silvia, GRANJA, Rafaela (Ed.). Manual de Justi莽a Juvenil e Justi莽a Penal. Famaliac茫o: Editora H煤mus.

• 2022 GOMES, S铆lvia, CARVALHO, Maria Jo茫o Leote, DUARTE, Vera (Eds.), Incarceration and Generation: Challenging Generational Relation. Volume II. Palgrave. .
• 2021 GOMES, S铆lvia, CARVALHO, Maria Jo茫o Leote, DUARTE, Vera (Eds.), Incarceration and Generation 鈥� Multiple Faces of Confinement. Volume I, Palgrave Macmillan. .
• 2019 GUIA, Maria Jo茫o, GOMES, S铆lvia (Ed.) Prisons, State and Violence, Springer. Doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-13077-0.
• 2018 GOMES, S铆lvia, DUARTE, Vera, RIBEIRO, Fernando Bessa, CUNHA, Lu铆s, BRAND脙O, Ana, JORGE, Ana, Desigualdades Sociais e Pol铆ticas P煤blicas - Homenagem a Manuel Carlos Silva [Social Inequalities and Public Policies 鈥� Tribute to Manuel Carlos Silva]. Famalic茫o: Editora H煤mus.
• 2018 GOMES, S铆lvia, DUARTE, Vera (Ed.), Female crime and delinquency: in and out the criminal justice system, London: Palgrave. .

Special Issues Edited

• 2022 GRANJA, Rafaela, GOMES, Silvia, SARD脕, Thais. (Ed), Revista Comunica莽茫o & Sociedade, vol. 42, Issue Crime, Justice and Media, Braga: Universidade do Minho. .
• 2018 CUNHA, Manuela Ivone, GOMES, S铆lvia, DUARTE, Vera, GUIBENTIF, Pierre (Ed.), Revista Configura莽玫es, vol. 21, Tema Justi莽a, Institui莽玫es, Interlocu莽玫es [Justice, Institutions and Interlocution], Braga: Universidade do Minho. .

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• 2024 PINA, Miriam; GOMES, S铆lvia, QUINTAS, Jorge. Prison misconduct: theoretical models, empirical evidence and implications for prison management, Sociologia, Problemas e Pr谩ticas, n. 106, 79-99. .

  2023 ELHINNAWY, Hind, KENNEDY, Morag, GOMES, S铆lvia. From Public to Private: The Gendered Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Work-Life Balance and Work-Family Balance, Community, Work & Family. Online first:

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• 2023 MILLS, Jack, GOMES, Silvia; WALZAK, Jessica,

  鈥淭he Press Has Gone Crazy鈥�: Online Media and Political Rhetoric of Immigrants in the US. International Journal of Migration and Border Studies. 7(3), 215-238.

• 2023 GUERREIRO, Ana, SOUSA, Pedro, GOMES, S铆lvia. Women in organised drug trafficking groups: A social network approach.Revista Espa帽ola de Investigaci贸n Criminol贸gica, 20(2), e679. .

• 2023 CARVALHO, Maria Jo茫o Leote, DUARTE, Vera, GOMES, Silvia, Female Crime and Delinquency: A kaleidoscope of changes at the intersection of gender and age. Women and Criminal Justice Journal. 33(4), 280-301.

• 2022 GOMES, Silvia, SARD脕, Thais, GRANJA, Rafaela. Crime, Justice and Media: Debating (Mis)representations and Renewed Challenges. Comunica莽茫o & Sociedade, 42, 7-24. .
• 2022 GUERREIRO, Ana, GOMES, S铆lvia, SOUSA, Pedro. Feminist Criminology and Women in Organized Crime: A Theoretical Exercise. Revista Ex Aequo, 45, pp. 45-63. DOI: .
• 2022 CARVALHO, Maria Jo茫o Leote, GOMES, S铆lvia, DUARTE, Vera, OLIVEIRA, Raquel. Prison Population in Portugal: Evolution and Trends between 2000 and 2017, Revista Cr铆tica de Ci锚ncias Sociais. 127, pp. 115-142. .
• 2021 GOMES, S铆lvia; GRANJA, Rafaela, (Dis)Trusted Outsiders: Conducting ethnographic research on prison settings, Etnogr谩fica, vol. 25 (1), 5-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.8678.
• 2020 GOMES, S铆lvia, Pathways to Prison: Bordering Social Inequalities through Prison and State. International Journal of Migration and Border Studies. (IJMBS), Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 356-370. DOI: 10.1504/IJMBS.2019.105812.
• 2020 GOMES, S铆lvia; DUARTE, Vera, What about ethics? Developing research in confinement settings. European Journal of Criminology. 17(4), 461-476. doi:10.1177/1477370818801305.
• 2019 GOMES, S铆lvia, Access to Law and Justice Perceived by Foreign and Roma Prisoners, Race and Justice, vol. 9 (3), pp. pp. 359鈥�379. DOI: .
• 2019 GOMES, S铆lvia, CARVALHO, Maria Jo茫o Leote, OLIVEIRA, Raquel, DUARTE, Vera, Trends and challenges in the Portuguese penitentiary system: from law to practice. Antigone Rivista, 1, pp. 61-102.
• 2019 GOMES, S铆lvia, CRUZ, Rui Vieira, Futureal: crime e tecnologias convergentes em Psycho-Pass [Futureal: crime and convergent technologies in Psycho-Pass]. Revista Configura莽玫es, vol. 24, pp. 96-121.  

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

• 2024 GOMES, Silvia, ROCKER, Dixie. In and Out of Prison: Women鈥檚 reentry experiences in Portugal. In Chamberlen, A. & Bandyopadhyay, M (Eds), Geographies of Gendered Punishment: Women鈥檚 Imprisonment in Global Context. Palgrave McMillan.
• 2024 GRANJA, Rafaela, GOMES, Silvia. Imprisoned at home: Electronic monitoring as a technological panacea for reintegration, resettlement, and reducing reoffending. In I. Mahoney and R. Chowdhury (Ed.), Holistic responses to reintegration, resettlement, and reducing reoffending, Routledge.

• 2023 DUARTE, Vera, GOMES, S铆lvia. Young Adult Prisoners in Portugal: An (still) invisible generational group.In J. Pedroso, P. Branco & L. Marinho (Eds.). Jovens adultos imput谩veis: direito penal e a resposta judicial鈥�. Coimbra: Coimbra University Press.

• 2022 GOMES, S铆lvia, CARVALHO, Maria Jo茫o Leote, DUARTE, Vera. Incarceration and Generational Relations: Exploring a theoretical and empirical field of research. In S. Gomes, M. J. L. Carvalho and V. Duarte (Eds.), Incarceration and Generation: Challenging Generational Relations, Palgrave.  
• 2022 GUERREIRO, Ana, GOMES, S铆lvia, SOUSA, Pedro. Incarceration and intergenerational family relations in organized crime. In S. Gomes, M. J. L. Carvalho and V. Duarte (Eds.), Incarceration and Generation: Challenging Generational Relations, Palgrave.  
• 2022 MILLS, Jack, OLIVEIRA, Raquel, GOMES, Silvia. Lives in cages: A media analysis of incarceration experiences across generations on the US-Mexico border. In S. Gomes, M. J. L. Carvalho and V. Duarte (Eds.), Incarceration and Generation: Challenging Generational Relations, Palgrave.  
• 2021 CARVALHO, M.J.L, DUARTE, V., GOMES, S.. Inequalities. In C. Tom谩s, G. Trevisan, M.J. L. Carvalho and N. Fernandes (Ed.). Key concepts on Sociology of Childhood. Global Perspectives. Braga: UMinho Editora, pp. 195-202.  
• 2021 GOMES, S铆lvia, CARVALHO, Maria Jo茫o Leote., DUARTE, Vera. Incarceration and Generation: Mapping a conceptual, theoretical and empirical field of research. In S. Gomes, M. J. L. Carvalho and V. Duarte (Eds.), Incarceration and Generation 鈥� Multiple Faces of Confinement, Palgrave, pp. 1-43.  
• 2021 GOMES, S铆lvia, ROCKER, Dixie. Gender, Incarceration and Reentry: An analysis of the barriers to reentry of male and female adult prisoners in Portugal. In S. Gomes, M. J. L. Carvalho and V. Duarte (Eds.), Incarceration and Generation 鈥� Multiple Faces of Confinemenment, Palgrave, pp. 255-299.  
• 2019 GOMES, S铆lvia, 鈥淧rison, Ethnicities and State 鈥� establishing theoretical and empirical connections鈥�. GUIA, Maria Jo茫o e GOMES, S铆lvia (Ed.) Prisons, State and Violence, Springer, pp. 49-69.  
• 2019 GUIA, Maria Jo茫o, GOMES, S铆lvia, 鈥淏rief introduction to Prison, State and Violence intersections鈥�. In M. J. Guia and S. Gomes (Ed.) Prisons, State and Violence, Springer, pp. 1-6.  
• 2018 SILVA, Manuel Carlos, GOMES, S铆lvia, Roma communities: Social consistencies throughout time. In D. D. Pereira e F. P. Ferreira (Eds.), Transcribe: Participatory Actions in Braga鈥檚 Social Housing Estates. Braga: Space Transcribers, pp. 21-33. ISBN: 978-989-99600-7-7.
• 2018 GOMES, S铆lvia, How do foreign women end up in prison? An intersectional approach of criminal pathways. In S. Gomes and V. Duarte (Ed.), Female crime and delinquency in Portugal: in and out the criminal justice system, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 75-104.  
• 2018 GOMES, S铆lvia; DUARTE, Vera, An introduction to female crime and delinquency: Portugal in the world. In S. Gomes and V. Duarte (Ed.), Female crime and delinquency in Portugal: in and out the criminal justice system, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-22.  
• 2018 FERREIRA, Mafalda, NEVES, Sofia, GOMES, S铆lvia, 鈥淭o Kill or to Be Killed鈥�: Narratives of Female Victims of Intimate Partner Violence, Condemned for the Murder of Their Partners. In S. Gomes and V. Duarte (Ed.), Female Crime and Delinquency in Portugal: In and Out of the Criminal Justice System, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 105-122.  

Areas of Research Supervision

• Media, Crime and Justice; Media Representations
• The Sociology of Punishment; Prison and Probation Services; Electronic Monitoring
• Vulnerability, Violence in Criminal Justice; Studies on Lived Experiences and Pathways to and out of the Criminal Justice System
• Gender and Criminal Justice; Feminist Critiques of Criminal Justice
• Intersectional Approaches to Understanding Crime and the Experiences with the Criminal Justice
• Critical Criminology; the Politics of Punishment; Abolitionist Perspectives
• Ethnography; Qualitative Research in Criminology; Qualitative Content Analysis; Media Content Analysis

Teaching

• Criminology: Theories and Concepts 鈥� Y1 Undergraduate Module
• Drugs, Crime and Society - Y3 Undergraduate Module

Current PhD students

• B谩rbara Branco. Project "Predictive Criminal Justice: An Interdisciplinary Affective Examination", funded by ESRC 1+3 scholarship. Co-supervised with Prof Henrique Carvalho.
• Jenny Dalzell. Project "After Murder and Manslaughter: The lived experience of those left behind in the wake of tragedy", funded by ESRC scholarship. Co-supervised with Dr Emily Gray.
• Feiyu Li. Project "The Role of Motherhood in Female Desistance: Understanding the Age-Crime Curve Differences". Co-supervised with Dr Emily Gray.
• Joe Hale. Project "Exploring the Impact of Peer-Led Initiatives on Power Dynamics: Perceptions and Realities of Prisoners and Staff". Co-supervised with Dr and Dr
• Nath谩lia Silva. Project Victimised Migrant Women in Interaction with the Justice System: Vulnerabilities, Discourses and Practices between Portugal and Brazil, funded by Funda莽茫o para a Ci锚ncia e Tecnologia. Co-supervised with Dr .
• Emma De Thouars Da Silva. Project "Unveiling Layers of Vulnerability: Understanding and Empowering Incarcerated Roma Women in Portugal", funded by Funda莽茫o para a Ci锚ncia e Tecnologia. Co-supervised with Dr .

Recently completed PhDs

• Ana Guerreiro
  Project "O Crime Organizado Segundo uma Lente de G茅nero: Estudo Explorat贸rio no Contexto Portugu锚s", funded by Funda莽茫o para a Ci锚ncia e Tecnologia. Co-supervised with Dr .