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Leonie Thies is a DPhil Criminology student at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, affiliated with Wolfson College. She is also a visiting researcher at the Law & Society Institute and the Department for Urban and Regional Sociology at Humboldt University Berlin during the academic year 2024/2025. Her research focuses on alternatives to punishment in the Berlin youth justice system, emphasizing citizen-making, penal practices, and institutional ethnography.
- Doctoral studies: Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford
- Visiting researcher: Law & Society Institute, Humboldt University Berlin
- Teaching: 'Crime and Justice' at Worcester College, Oxford (2024), 'Criminalisation of Urban Youth' at Humboldt University Berlin (2024/2025)
Education:
- Bachelor's and Master's in Social Sciences (Sociology and Political Sciences), Humboldt University Berlin
Research Interests: Epistemology, Policing, Sociology of Punishment, Law as Practice, Youth Justice, Institutional Ethnography, Feminist Theory, Abolitionism, and Urban Sociology. Her work bridges critical legal studies with social theory, focusing on marginalized urban youth and decolonial approaches to justice.
Publications reflect her interdisciplinary focus, including contributions on legal tech, urban justice, and critiques of sociological 'normality' assumptions. She explores intersections of race, place, and systemic exclusion.
Scientific Awards:
- German Academic Scholarship Foundation
- Humboldt Research Track Scholarship
- German Villigst Scholarship
A former research assistant at Humboldt University and WZB Berlin, she co-founded the 'Abolitionist Imaginaries and Praxis' discussion group and edits the 'Talking about Methods' podcast. Her teaching and visiting roles highlight transnational academic engagement.
