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Dr. Deborah Kant

Dr. Deborah Kant

deborah.kant(at)uni-koeln(dot)de

Vorträge
  • ‘Exploring German prison staff cultures’, European Society of Criminology Conference, Bucharest, Romania, September 2024
  • ‘What really matters in prisons? Measuring the quality of prison life in Germany and Switzerland’, European Society of Criminology Conference, Malaga, Spain, September 2022.
  • ‘The prison and the city: a tale of two cultures’: M.St Penology course, University of Cambridge, 8 September 2021.
  • ‘Measuring the Quality of Prison Life: Aims, Methodology, Spirit’, Presentation at the 16th Wissenschaftliche Tagung der Kriminologischen Gesellschaft, Vienna, 5 September 2019.
  • ‘Pentonville’, Presentation to the Public Sector Prisons South Management Team, University of Cambridge, 25 September 2019.
  • ‘The prison and the city: a tale of two cultures’, UNLOCKED M.Sc., 7 March 2018.
  • ‘Prison work: the role of place and structure’, M.St Penology course, University of Cambridge, 19 September 2017.
  • ‘’We’re lucky up here’: Exploring work, history, and location in the narratives of prison officers’ Panel: ‘Prison Work: Political Economy and Class in Prison’, European Society of Criminology Conference, Muenster, 22 September 2016.
  • ‘The role of space and place in the work of prison officers’, as part of a panel on ‘Expanding prisons research beyond the social’, European Society of Criminology Conference, Porto, 5 September 2015.
  • ‘A social history of prison officers’, Cross Channel Prison Research Masterclass, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 19 February 2015.

Publikationen

 

2025

  • Resozialisierung als leeres Versprechen: Warum der Strafvollzug hinter den eigenen Ansprüchen zurückbleibt Befunde und Erkenntnisse aus der Forschung zum Anstaltsklima in Deutschland. 2025. Kriminologie - Das Online-Journal | Criminology - The Online Journal, (7)1, 227–254. https://doi.org/10.18716/ojs/krimoj/2025.1.12 (Neubacher, F., & Kant, D.)

2023

2022

  • ‘Same problems, different concepts and language: What happens when prison climate research goes on a journey?’, European Journal of Criminology (Neubacher, F., Liebling, A. & Kant, D)

2020

  • ‘Prison officer uniforms: Review of the literature’, report commissioned by HMPPS (unpublished report)

2019

  • ‘Are Hope and Possibility Achievable in Prison?’, The Howard Journal 00(0): 1-23 (Liebling, A., Laws, B., Lieber, E., Auty, K., Schmidt, B.E., Crewe, B., Gardom, J., Kant, D., & Morey, M.)

2017

  • ‘The Two Cultures: Correctional Officers and Key Differences in Institutional Climate’, in J. Wooldredge & P. Smith (eds.) The Oxford Handbook on Prisons and Imprisonment, Oxford: Oxford University Press (Liebling, A. & Kant, D.)

2015

  • Birmingham prison: the transition from public to private sector and its impact on staff and prisoner quality of life - a three-year study, MOJ (Liebling, A., Schmidt, B.E., Crewe, B., Auty, K., Armstrong, R., Akoensi, T., Kant, D., Ludlow, A. & Ievins, A.)

2009

  • The Experience of Muslim Prisoners: A Brief Review of the Literature, University of Cambridge, (unpublished report) (Kant, D., supervised by Liebling, A. & Arnold, H.)

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