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Bio

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.