Principal Investigator and Project Lead

Anastasia Chamberlen is Professor of Sociology at Warwick University and Principal Investigator on Captive Arts.Her research interests cover the sociologies of punishment and prison life, gender and criminal justice, and sociologies of the body and the arts. She is author of Embodying Punishment (2018); winner of the British Society of Criminology’s book of the year prize and co-author of Questioning Punishment (2024). She has published articles in a number of academic journals such as Theoretical Criminology, Feminist Criminology, Punishment & Society and the British Journal of Criminology and is co-editor of two special issues (‘The Problem of Punishment’ Social & Legal Studies; ‘Addressing the prisons crisis’ Prison Service Journal). She also co-edited three collections: Decolonising the Criminal Question (Oxford University Press 2023; co-edited with Ana Aliverti, Henrique Carvalho & Maximo Sozzo); Geographies of Gendered Punishment (forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan; co-edited with Mahuya Bandyopadhyay), and Embodied States (forthcoming with Routledge, co-edited with Ana Aliverti, Henrique Carvalho & Simon Tawfic).

Links:

Anastasia Chamberlen (warwick.ac.uk)

(@a_chamberlen) / X (twitter.com)

Embodying Punishment: Emotions, Identities, and Lived Experiences in Women's Prisons | Oxford Academic (oup.com)

Questioning Punishment | Henrique Carvalho, Anastasia Chamberlen | Tay (taylorfrancis.com)