Crime, Justice and Media: Debating (Mis)representations and Renewed Challenges

Sílvia Gomes; Thaís Sardá; Rafaela Granja

doi:10.17231/comsoc.42(2022).4467

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Sílvia Gomes Criminology and Criminal Justice Department, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom/Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5503-0037
Thaís Sardá Criminology and Criminal Justice Department, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8559-6568
Rafaela Granja Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4430-9061

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Sílvia Gomes, Criminology and Criminal Justice Department, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom/Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Sílvia Gomes is currently a lecturer in criminology at Nottingham Trent University (United Kingdom). She holds a PhD in sociology (2013) with a thesis focusing on crime, ethnicities, and social inequalities. She is a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center of Social Sciences and at the Critical Criminology and Social Justice Research Group at Nottingham Trent University (United Kingdom). She is co-coordinating the Thematic Section on Sociology of Law and Justice of the Portuguese Sociological Association. 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 and ethnicity, social inequalities, intersectional approaches, and more recently on reentry, recidivism, and criminal desistance. Her recent books are Female Crime and Delinquency in Portugal: In and Out of the Criminal Justice System (Palgrave, 2018), Prisons, State and Violence (Springer, 2019), Incarceration and Generation, Volumes 1 and 2 (Palgrave, 2021), and Gender, Prison and Reentry Experiences: A Matter of Time (Routledge, 2023 forthcoming).

Thaís Sardá, Criminology and Criminal Justice Department, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Thaís Sardá is a lecturer in criminology at Nottingham Trent University (United Kingdom) focused on researching and teaching cybercrime. Before that, she was a post-doctoral research associate at the TECHNGI Project at the School of Business and Economics of Loughborough University. She also holds a PhD in communication and media studies (Loughborough University), a masters’ degree in information, social networks and technology (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), a bachelor degree in social communication and journalism (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), a post-graduate degree in criminology (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), and a master business administration in people management (Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil). Moreover, she has a background working as a professional journalist (newspaper and online news) and with advertising (social media, business intelligence and public relations).

Rafaela Granja, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

Rafaela Granja holds a PhD in sociology (2015) by Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho. Her research explores topics of technological surveillance of criminalized populations, the interconnections between family, genetics and crime, and reconfigurations of family relationships inside and outside the prison. She was awarded a grant from “scientific employment stimulus” (second edition) promoted by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia), CEECIND/ 00984/2018. Since October 2021, she is developing the research project “Between control and repair: The reconfiguration of genetic surveillance at the intersection of criminal investigation and civil identification” at the Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho, Portugal. Publications include the books Genetic Surveillance and Crime Control: Social, Cultural and Political Perspectives (Routledge, 2021), Forensic Genetics in the Governance of Crime (Palgrave, 2020) and Modes of Bio-Bordering: The Hidden (Dis)integration of Europe (Palgrave, 2020).

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