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Dr Alice Ievins is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Liverpool, affiliated with the School of Law and Social Justice and the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology. Her research focuses on the moral dimensions of punishment, particularly the experiences of imprisoned individuals convicted of sex offences and the ethical implications of penal practices. She holds a PhD in Criminology, following an MPhil in Criminological Research from the University of Cambridge and an undergraduate degree in English Literature.
Her postdoctoral work included roles as a Research Associate on the Comparative Penology project (conducting ethnographic studies in prisons in England, Wales, and Norway), an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, and a researcher on an ESRC New Investigator Grant examining overlaps between confinement and ethical anthropology. She teaches modules on punishment, prisons, violence, and sociological observation.
Her research interests emphasize the intersection of penal systems with morality, the existential impacts of imprisonment, and comparative penal practices. Recent work explores desistance trajectories among sex offenders, the ethics of coercive confinement, and Nordic penal exceptionalism.
Teaching responsibilities include coordinating modules like 'Punishment, Penality and Prisons: Critical Debates' and 'Observation,' alongside contributing to courses on violence and dissertation supervision. She actively publishes in top-tier criminology journals such as The British Journal of Criminology and Incarceration, with a focus on theoretical and empirical analyses of punishment's societal role.
