Publications
2024
Prison Life: Pain, Resistance, and Purpose. By Ian O’Donnell (New York, New York University Press, 2023, 304pp. £24.00 pbk)
Ievins, A. (n.d.). Prison Life: Pain, Resistance, and Purpose. By Ian O’Donnell (New York, New York University Press, 2023, 304pp. £24.00 pbk). The British Journal of Criminology. doi:10.1093/bjc/azae075
The Prison as a Space of Non-life: How Does a Typical Prison Sentence Intervene in What Really Matters to People?
Ievins, A. (2024). The Prison as a Space of Non-life: How Does a Typical Prison Sentence Intervene in What Really Matters to People?. The British Journal of Criminology, 64(4), 931-946. doi:10.1093/bjc/azad070
Hope, despair and desistance: What happens after people are imprisoned as 'sex offenders'?
Ievins, A., & Reimer, T. (2024). Hope, despair and desistance: What happens after people are imprisoned as 'sex offenders'?. In E. Phillips, & F. Stone-Davis (Eds.), Catholic Social Thought and Prison Ministry: Resourcing Theory and Practice (1 ed.). London: Routledge. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003290407
2023
Taking the long view: The role of shame and guilt in desistance
Ievins, A. (2023). Taking the long view: The role of shame and guilt in desistance. In A. Bottoms, & J. Jacobs (Eds.), Criminology as a Moral Science (pp. 169-190). Oxford: Hart.
Nordic Penal Exceptionalism: A Comparative, Empirical Analysis
Crewe, B., Ievins, A., Larmour, S., Laursen, J., Mjåland, K., & Schliehe, A. (2023). Nordic Penal Exceptionalism: A Comparative, Empirical Analysis. The British Journal of Criminology, 63(2), 424-443. doi:10.1093/bjc/azac013
The Stains of Imprisonment Moral Communication and Men Convicted of Sex Offenses
Ievins, A. (2023). The Stains of Imprisonment Moral Communication and Men Convicted of Sex Offenses (First ed.). University of California Press. doi:10.1525/luminos.143
2022
The Society of 'Sex Offenders'
Ievins, A. (2022). The Society of 'Sex Offenders'. In B. Crewe, A. Goldsmith, & M. Halsey (Eds.), Power and Pain in the Modern Prison: Revisiting the Society of Captives (pp. 175-192). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Nordic penal exceptionalism: A comparative, empirical analysis
2021
Authoritarian exclusion and laissez-faire inclusion: Comparing the punishment of men convicted of sex offenses in England & Wales and Norway*
Ievins, A., & Mjåland, K. (2021). Authoritarian exclusion and laissez‐faire inclusion: Comparing the punishment of men convicted of sex offenses in England & Wales and Norway*. Criminology, 59(3), 454-479. doi:10.1111/1745-9125.12276
False Accounting: Why We Shouldn't Ask People Who Commit Crimes to Pay their Debts to Society
Ievins, A., Jarman, B., & Reimer, T. (2021). False Accounting: Why We Shouldn't Ask People Who Commit Crimes to Pay their Debts to Society. Retrieved from https://www.jcfj.ie/
Authoritarian exclusion and laissez-faire inclusion: Comparing the punishment of men convicted of sex offenses in England & Wales and Norway
‘Tightness’, recognition and penal power
Crewe, B., & Ievins, A. (2021). ‘Tightness’, recognition and penal power. Punishment & Society, 23(1), 47-68. doi:10.1177/1462474520928115
2020
Power, shame and social relations in prisons for men convicted of sex offences
Ievins, A. (n.d.). Power, shame and social relations in prisons for men convicted of sex offences. Prison Service Journal.
The prison as a reinventive institution
Crewe, B., & Ievins, A. (2020). The prison as a reinventive institution. Theoretical Criminology, 24(4), 568-589. doi:10.1177/1362480619841900
‘Perfectly individualized and constantly visible’? Lateral tightness in a prison holding men convicted of sex offences
Ievins, A. (2020). ‘Perfectly individualized and constantly visible’? Lateral tightness in a prison holding men convicted of sex offences. Incarceration, 1(1). doi:10.1177/2632666320936433
2019
Finding victims in the narratives of men imprisoned for sex offences
Ievins, A. (2019). Finding victims in the narratives of men imprisoned for sex offences. In J. Fleetwood, L. Presser, S. Sandberg, & T. Ugelvik (Eds.), The Emerald Handbook of Narrative Criminology (pp. 279-300). Bingley: Emerald.
Prison Officers, Professionalism, and Moral Judgement
Ievins, A. (2019). Prison Officers, Professionalism, and Moral Judgement. In Sexual Crime and the Experience of Imprisonment (pp. 85-108). Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04930-0_4
2015
‘Nobody’s better than you, nobody’s worse than you’: Moral community among prisoners convicted of sexual offences
Ievins, A., & Crewe, B. (2015). ‘Nobody’s better than you, nobody’s worse than you’: Moral community among prisoners convicted of sexual offences. Punishment & Society, 17(4), 482-501. doi:10.1177/1462474515603803
Closeness, Distance and Honesty in Prison Ethnography
Crewe, B., & Ievins, A. (2015). Closeness, Distance and Honesty in Prison Ethnography. In The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography (pp. 124-142). Palgrave Macmillan UK. doi:10.1057/9781137403889_7
2013
'This isn't a real prison': Prisoner safety and relationships in HMP Whatton
Ievins, A. (n.d.). 'This isn't a real prison': Prisoner safety and relationships in HMP Whatton. Prison Service Journal.