
Kristel Beyens
Biography
Kristel Beyens is full Professor of Criminology and Penology at the VUB. She is head of Department of Criminology. Within CRiS she coordinates the research line Penality & Society, bringing together penological research on prisons, immigration detention, and community punishment. Kristel studies contemporary evolutions in penality, with special attention to penal decision-making and the implementation of prison sentences and community punishment from a cultural, organizational, and social approach. She has published widely on sentencing, prison overcrowding, transnational prisons, digitalization of prisons, conditional release and recall decision-making and electronic monitoring. Kristel has well established links with several international networks that study community punishment and imprisonment from an international comparative perspective.
She completed a EU funded comparative research project on electronic monitoring (2014-2016) in five European jurisdictions and she was the co-chair of a successful EU funded COST Action on ‘Offender Supervision in Europe’ (2013 -2016), bringing more than 70 international scholars together. Kristel is member of several European networks on community sanctions , penal decision-making and prisons (ESC working groups) She is a member of the think tank ‘The Houses’, which strives for a radical change in prison policy. She gives training to magistrates on the pains of imprisonment and community punishment. Kristel is a regular participant in media debates on penal policies and practices in Belgium.
Research Line: Penality and Society
COURSES TAUGHT AT THE VUB IN 2021-2022
Name | Link |
Penologie en Penitentiair Recht | More info |
Criminaliteit en Samenleving | More info |
Penologie | More info |
Stagepraktijk | More info |
Bachelorproef | More info |
KEYWORDS
#prisons
#electronicmonitoring
#communitypunishment
#penology
#penaldecisionmaking
#recall
#conditionalrelease
Location
Pleinlaan 2
1050 Brussels
Belgium