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Silvia Gomes is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick (UK). Before this, she was a lecturer in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University (2020-2022), a researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences, at the University of Minho (2019-2020), a postdoctoral research scholar at the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, at Florida State University (2018-20), and an invited Assistant Professor in Criminology at the University Institute of Maia, Portugal (2012-2019). She holds a PhD in Sociology (2013), with a thesis focusing on crime, ethnicities, and social inequalities. She is co-coordinating the Thematic Section on Sociology of Law and Justice of the Portuguese Sociological Association and is a member of the Working Groups on Immigration, Crime and Citizenship and Gender, Crime, and Justice, both of the European Society of Criminology. Author of several books, book chapters, and papers in scientific journals, her main areas of research are focused on crime and media, prison studies, crime, ethnicity and gender, intersectional approaches, and social inequalities and violence. More recently she has also been focused on topics such as life-course criminology, prison re-entry, recidivism, and criminal desistance.
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PTDC/DIR-OUT/28229/2017
28229
FAPE2016-0011
SFRH/BPD/102758/2014
FAPE2015-0003
FEINPT-1A5-0015
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PEst-OE/SADG/UI0710/2011