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First Name

An Sofie
Last Name

Vanhouche
Nickname

AnSofie
University or research institute

Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Country

Belgium
Discipline

Criminology
Research interests

Prisons, lived experiences
Language(s)

Dutch, English, French
Biography of max. 100 words

An-Sofie Vanhouche holds a PhD in Criminology and works as assistant professor in the Criminology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She obtained her Master’s degree in 2011 with a thesis entitled: “Innocently imprisoned: The Consequences for People who are Acquitted after Being Remanded in Custody”. In 2017, she successfully defended her PhD, ‘Prison Cuisines in Europe. A Comparative Study of Prison Food Systems in Belgium, Tilburg and Denmark’, jointly supervised at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the University of Southern Denmark.

An-Sofie currently teaches several courses as assistant professor: a co-learning course on penology in the prison of Beveren for incarcerated learners, criminology students and prison officers; several courses on penology; and a course on comparative criminology. Her main research interest lies in the lived experience of imprisonment, prison education, and comparative penology.

The RESCALED Research Community is an initiative of RESCALED, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and KRUS (University College of Norwegian Correctional Service) with the aim to contribute to and share excellent interdisciplinary and comparative research on small-scale, differentiated and community-integrated forms of incarceration.

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