Henrique Carvalho

Professor

Co-Director of CCLS
Athena Swan Working Group Member

Criminal Law; Criminal Justice; Punishment; Aesthetics; Affect; Identity; Belonging; Boundary-work

School of Law
S1.23, Social Sciences Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

024 765 74724

Scholarship

Henrique is a critical theorist of criminalisation, punishment, law and justice, examining these issues as cultural, socio-political phenomena which both reflect and condition matters of identity and belonging, authority and order. His broader research interests include criminal law and justice, criminology, responsibility and punishment, aesthetics, and legal, social, cultural and political theory.

Henrique is the author of The Preventive Turn in Criminal Law (2017, OUP), which was shortlisted for the 2018 Hart-SLSA Theory and History Book Prize. He is also the co-author, together with Anastasia Chamberlen, of Questioning Punishment (2024, Routledge) and the co-editor, with Ana Aliverti, Anastasia Chamberlen and Máximo Sozzo, of Decolonizing the Criminal Question: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary ProblemsLink opens in a new window (2023, OUP) - available Open Access.

Henrique is an editorial board member, and book reviews co-editor, of Social & Legal Studies, and an editorial board member of the International Journal of Law in Context and of the Journal of Critical Realism.

Bio

Henrique joined the University of Warwick in September 2015. He holds a PhD in Law (King's College London), an LLM in Legal Theory (King's College London), a Specialism in Procedural Law and Legal Reasoning (UFPE, Brazil), and a Bachelors degree in Law (UNICAP, Brazil). He also had training in social communication, advertising, and history of philosophy. Henrique is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Prior to coming to Warwick, Henrique was a Lecturer in Law at City University London, and a Visiting Lecturer at King's College London, having previously taught criminal law, public law, law and social theory and jurisprudence at King's College London, and criminal law at the LSE.

Publications

Carvalho, Henrique, Chamberlen, Anastasia, 2024. Questioning our need for punishment. The Philosopher, pp. 38-43
Carvalho, Henrique, Foreman, Sally, Tawfic, Simon, Aliverti, Ana J., Chamberlen, Anastasia, Rawson, Belinda, 2024. Modern slavery and the punitive humanitarian complex. British Journal of Criminology
Carvalho, Henrique, 2023. Dangerous patterns : joint enterprise and the culture of criminal law. Social and Legal Studies, 32 (3), pp. 335-355
Chamberlen, Anastasia, Carvalho, Henrique, 2022. Feeling the absence of justice : notes on our pathological reliance on punitive justice. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 61 (1), pp. 87-102
Aliverti, Ana J., Carvalho, Henrique, Chamberlen, Anastasia, Sozzo, Maximo, 2021. Decolonizing the criminal question. Punishment & Society, 23 (3), pp. 297-316
Carvalho, Henrique, Chamberlen, Anastasia, Lewis, Rachel, 2020. Punitiveness beyond criminal justice : punishable and punitive subjects in an era of prevention, anti-migration and austerity. The British Journal of Criminology, 60 (2), pp. 265-284
Carvalho, Henrique, 2019. Feeding the prison crisis through hostile criminalisation : the case of joint enterprise. Prison Service Journal, 243, pp. 41-47
Carvalho, Henrique, Chamberlen, Anastasia, Duff, R. A., 2019. Introduction to the special issue on The problem of punishment : renewing critique. Social and Legal Studies, 28 (1), pp. 3-9
Carvalho, Henrique, 2019. Making the modern criminal law and the paradox of civil order. Jurisprudence : An International Journal of Legal and Political Thought, 10 (1), pp. 103-109
Carvalho, Henrique, 2019. The violence of criminalisation. isrf Bulletin, pp. 9-12
Chamberlen, Anastasia, Carvalho, Henrique, 2019. The thrill of the chase : punishment, hostility, and the prison crisis. Social and Legal Studies, 28 (1), pp. 100-117
Carvalho, Henrique, Chamberlen, Anastasia, 2018. Why punishment pleases : punitive feelings in a world of hostile solidarity. Punishment & Society, 20 (2), pp. 217-234
Carvalho, Henrique, Chamberlen, Anastasia, Duff, Antony, 2018. Introduction to the Special Issue on the Problem of Punishment: Renewing Critique. Social & Legal Studies, 28 (1), pp. 3-9
Carvalho, Henrique, Norrie, Alan W., 2017. 'In this Interregnum' : dialectical themes in the critique of criminal justice. Social & Legal Studies, 26 (6), pp. 716-734
Carvalho, Henrique, 2017. Liberty and insecurity in the criminal law : lessons from Thomas Hobbes. Criminal Law and Philosophy, 11 (2), pp. 249-271
Carvalho, Henrique, 2012. Terrorism, punishment, and recognition. New Criminal Law Review : An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, 15 (3), pp. 345-374

Carvalho, Henrique, 2024. Cultures of responsibility and blaming. Crofts, T.; Kennefick, L.; Loughnan, A. (eds.), The Routledge International Handbook on Criminal Responsibility, London, Routledge
Carvalho, Henrique, Chamberlen, Anastasia, 2024. Questioning punishment. Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge
Carvalho, Henrique, 2024. Patterns of blaming and structures of feeling : thinking culturally about criminalisation. Gildea, Niall (ed.), Raymond Williams and Structures of Feeling, University of Wales Press
Aliverti, Ana J., Carvalho, Henrique, Chamberlen, Anastasia, Sozzo, Maximo, 2023. Conclusion : teasing out the criminal question, building a decolonizing horizon. In Aliverti, Ana J.; Carvalho, Henrique; Chamberlen, Anastasia; Sozzo, Maximo (eds.), Decolonizing the criminal question : colonial legacies, contemporary problems, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 347-362
Aliverti, Ana J., Carvalho, Henrique, Chamberlen, Anastasia, Sozzo, Maximo, 2023. Introduction to Decolonizing the criminal question : colonial legacies, contemporary problems. In Aliverti, Ana J.; Carvalho, Henrique; Chamberlen, Anastasia; Sozzo, Maximo (eds.), Decolonizing the criminal question : colonial legacies, contemporary problems, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 1-15
'Carvalho, Henrique, 'Chamberlen, Anastasia, 2021. 'The emotional aims of punishment. Papacharalambous, Charis (ed.), The Aims of Punishment: Theoretical, International and Law Comparative Approaches, Baden-Baden, Nomos
Carvalho, Henrique, 2021. Hegemony. In Wall, Illan rua; Middleton, Freya; Shah, Sahar (eds.), The Critical Legal Pocketbook, Oxford, Counterpress, pp. 72-73
'Carvalho, Henrique, 2020. 'Joint enterprise, hostility, and the construction of dangerous belonging. In Pratt, J.; Anderson, J. (eds.), Criminal Justice, Risk and the Revolt against Uncertainty, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, pp. 115-137
Chamberlen, Anastasia, Carvalho, Henrique, 2019. Punitiveness and the emotions of punishment : between solidarity and hostility. Jacobsen, M. H.; Walklate, S. (eds.), Emotions and Crime: Towards a Criminology of Emotions, London, Routledge
Carvalho, Henrique, Norrie, Alan W., Reeves, Craig, 2019. Between persecution and reconciliation : criminal justice, legal form and human emancipation. Christodoulidis, Emilios; Dukes, Ruth; Goldoni, Marco (eds.), Research Handbook on Critical Legal Theory, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Carvalho, Henrique, 2017. The preventive turn in criminal law. Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press
Carvalho, Henrique, Chamberlen, Anastasia, 2016. Punishment, justice and emotions. Tonry, Michael (ed.), Oxford Handbooks Online in Criminology and Criminal Justice, New York, Oxford University Press

Wilson, Amanda, Carvalho, Henrique, 2022. Rethinking the restorative dimension of criminal justice. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, pp. 3-8
Carvalho, Henrique, 2016. Reviews of Making the modern criminal law : criminalization and civil order by Farmer, L. and In search of criminal responsibility : ideas, interests and institutions by Lacey, N.. Criminal Law Review, Sweet & Maxwell Ltd, pp. 950-955
Carvalho, Henrique, 2015. Book review : Preventive justice. Modern Law Review, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, pp. 407-410
Carvalho, Henrique, 2011. Book review : The boundaries of the criminal law. Modern Law Review, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, pp. 986-989

Teaching Projects

Title	Funder	Award start	Award end
PROCEDURAL UNFAIRNESS AND (UN)EQUAL PROTECTION IN CAPITAL CASES: DOES RIGHTS DISCOURSE HELP ADVANCE SOCIAL JUSTICE? (Chloe Deambrogio BA postdoc fellowship outline - 2nd stage)	British Academy	01 Jan 2025	31 Dec 2027
At the heart of the state: Ambivalent moral and affective economies of state power in an age of vulnerability (Leverhulme Research Project Grant)	Leverhulme Trust	01 Oct 2022	30 Sep 2026
The Dangerous Essence of Criminal Law: Redefining Criminalisation - ISRF Early Career Fellowship	Independent Social Research Foundation	01 Oct 2019	31 Mar 2021
The Problem of Punishment	Society of Legal Scholars	01 May 2016	31 Jul 2018

Impact

Legislation

Henrique has submitted written evidence to the Parliamentary Justice Select Committee, on the topic of 'Covid and the Criminal Law'.

Policy Professional Practice

Research Supervision

I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD supervisees. However, please ensure that you have a research proposal which corresponds with the University of Warwick School of Law requirements.

Henrique welcomes proposals from students for supervising research in the following areas:

Critical approaches to criminal responsibility and criminalisation;
The philosophy and/or the sociology of punishment;
The relationship between law, politics, aesthetics and affect; and
Social, cultural and legal theory, particularly in relation to issues of legal subjectivity, coloniality, boundary-work and difference.

Current PhD students:

Bárbara Branco
Heather Cowgill
Anna Gillions (at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University)
Belinda Rawson
Puja-Arti Patel
James White