Background

I joined Warwick 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 Ph.D. 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, marginalization 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, Sílvia, ROCKER, Dixie. Gender, Prison and Reentry Experiences: A Matter of Time. Routledge.
• 2022 GOMES, Sílvia, CARVALHO, Maria João Leote, DUARTE, Vera (Eds.), Incarceration and Generation: Challenging Generational Relation. Volume II. Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82276-7.
• 2021 GOMES, Sílvia, CARVALHO, Maria João Leote, DUARTE, Vera (Eds.), Incarceration and Generation – Multiple Faces of Confinement. Volume I, Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82265-1.
• 2019 GUIA, Maria João, GOMES, Sílvia (Ed.) Prisons, State and Violence, Springer. Doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-13077-0.
• 2018 GOMES, Sílvia, DUARTE, Vera, RIBEIRO, Fernando Bessa, CUNHA, Luís, BRANDÃO, Ana, JORGE, Ana, Desigualdades Sociais e Políticas Públicas - Homenagem a Manuel Carlos Silva [Social Inequalities and Public Policies – Tribute to Manuel Carlos Silva]. Famalicão: Editora Húmus.
• 2018 GOMES, Sílvia, DUARTE, Vera (Ed.), Female crime and delinquency: in and out the criminal justice system, London: Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73534-4.

Special Issues Edited

• 2022 GRANJA, Rafaela, GOMES, Silvia, SARDÁ, Thais. (Ed), Revista Comunicação & Sociedade, vol. 42, Issue Crime, Justice and Media, Braga: Universidade do Minho. https://revistacomsoc.pt/index.php/revistacomsoc/issue/view/244.
• 2018 CUNHA, Manuela Ivone, GOMES, Sílvia, DUARTE, Vera, GUIBENTIF, Pierre (Ed.), Revista Configurações, vol. 21, Tema Justiça, Instituições, Interlocuções [Justice, Institutions and Interlocution], Braga: Universidade do Minho. https://journals.openedition.org/configuracoes/4300.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

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

  https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2023.2265044.

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

  “The Press Has Gone Crazy”: 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, Sílvia. Women in organised drug trafficking groups: A social network approach.Revista Española de Investigación Criminológica, 20(2), e679. https://doi.org/10.46381/reic.v20i2.679.

• 2023 CARVALHO, Maria João 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, SARDÁ, Thais, GRANJA, Rafaela. Crime, Justice and Media: Debating (Mis)representations and Renewed Challenges. Comunicação & Sociedade, 42, 7-24. https://doi.org/10.17231/comsoc.42(2022).4467.
• 2022 GUERREIRO, Ana, GOMES, Sílvia, SOUSA, Pedro. Feminist Criminology and Women in Organized Crime: A Theoretical Exercise. Revista Ex Aequo, 45, pp. 45-63. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22355/exaequo.2022.45.05.
• 2022 CARVALHO, Maria João Leote, GOMES, Sílvia, DUARTE, Vera, OLIVEIRA, Raquel. Prison Population in Portugal: Evolution and Trends between 2000 and 2017, Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais. 127, pp. 115-142. https://journals.openedition.org/rccs/12883.
• 2021 GOMES, Sílvia; GRANJA, Rafaela, (Dis)Trusted Outsiders: Conducting ethnographic research on prison settings, Etnográfica, vol. 25 (1), 5-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.8678.
• 2020 GOMES, Sílvia, 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, Sílvia; DUARTE, Vera, What about ethics? Developing research in confinement settings. European Journal of Criminology. 17(4), 461-476. doi:10.1177/1477370818801305.
• 2019 GOMES, Sílvia, Access to Law and Justice Perceived by Foreign and Roma Prisoners, Race and Justice, vol. 9 (3), pp. pp. 359–379. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2153368717699972.
• 2019 GOMES, Sílvia, CARVALHO, Maria João 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, Sílvia, CRUZ, Rui Vieira, Futureal: crime e tecnologias convergentes em Psycho-Pass [Futureal: crime and convergent technologies in Psycho-Pass]. Revista Configurações, vol. 24, pp. 96-121. https://doi.org/10.4000/configuracoes.7802 

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

• 2024 GOMES, Silvia, ROCKER, Dixie. In and Out of Prison: Women’s reentry experiences in Portugal. In Chamberlen, A. & Bandyopadhyay, M (Eds), Geographies of Gendered Punishment: Women’s 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, Sílvia. Young Adult Prisoners in Portugal: An (still) invisible generational group.In J. Pedroso, P. Branco & L. Marinho (Eds.). Jovens adultos imputáveis: direito penal e a resposta judicial”. Coimbra: Coimbra University Press.

• 2022 GOMES, Sílvia, CARVALHO, Maria João 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82276-7_1 
• 2022 GUERREIRO, Ana, GOMES, Sílvia, 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82276-7_7 
• 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82276-7_8 
• 2021 CARVALHO, M.J.L, DUARTE, V., GOMES, S.. Inequalities. In C. Tomás, G. Trevisan, M.J. L. Carvalho and N. Fernandes (Ed.). Key concepts on Sociology of Childhood. Global Perspectives. Braga: UMinho Editora, pp. 195-202. https://doi.org/10.21814/uminho.ed.36.24 
• 2021 GOMES, Sílvia, CARVALHO, Maria João 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 – Multiple Faces of Confinement, Palgrave, pp. 1-43. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82265-1_1 
• 2021 GOMES, Sílvia, 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 – Multiple Faces of Confinemenment, Palgrave, pp. 255-299. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82265-1_8 
• 2019 GOMES, Sílvia, “Prison, Ethnicities and State – establishing theoretical and empirical connections”. GUIA, Maria João e GOMES, Sílvia (Ed.) Prisons, State and Violence, Springer, pp. 49-69. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13077-0_5 
• 2019 GUIA, Maria João, GOMES, Sílvia, “Brief introduction to Prison, State and Violence intersections”. In M. J. Guia and S. Gomes (Ed.) Prisons, State and Violence, Springer, pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13077-0_1 
• 2018 SILVA, Manuel Carlos, GOMES, Sílvia, Roma communities: Social consistencies throughout time. In D. D. Pereira e F. P. Ferreira (Eds.), Transcribe: Participatory Actions in Braga’s Social Housing Estates. Braga: Space Transcribers, pp. 21-33. ISBN: 978-989-99600-7-7.
• 2018 GOMES, Sílvia, 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73534-4_5 
• 2018 GOMES, Sílvia; 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73534-4_1 
• 2018 FERREIRA, Mafalda, NEVES, Sofia, GOMES, Sílvia, “To Kill or to Be Killed”: 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73534-4_6 

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

I am interested in supervising students wanting to work on topics in these areas of research.

Teaching (2022-23)

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