Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Biography
My long standing research area is comparative criminal justice. It considers why arrangements are different in different places and what we can learn from each other. More specifically I look at prisons abroad. I have written about the nature of prisons in Norway, Iceland and the Netherlands.
My latest project involved spending a week in two prisons in Iceland as a 'quasi prisoner' in order to study their culture from within and to find out what other countries could learn from them.
I am from the Netherlands and came to the UK in 1998.
Research Interests
- Comparative Criminal Justice
- Criminal Justice in the Netherlands
- Psychology and Criminal Justice
- Criminal Justice and Mental Health
- Prisons in the Nordic countries, in particular Norway and Iceland
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Comparative Criminal Justice
Pakes, F., 1 Aug 2024, 5th ed. Routledge. 332 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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How Iceland takes better care of its foreign offenders than the rest of Europe
Pakes, F., 5 Feb 2024, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Prison break - or a break from prison? Reflections on escapes from Icelandic prisons
Pakes, F. & Gunnlaugsson, H., 2 Dec 2024, In: Nordic Journal of Criminology. 26, 1, p. 1-18 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Out in the cold? The experiences of foreign national prisoners in Iceland's open prisons
Pakes, F., 1 Dec 2023, In: International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice. 75, 10 p., 100626.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The shallow end: understanding the prisoner experience in Iceland’s open prisons
Pakes, F., 1 Dec 2023, In: Incarceration. 4, 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile55 Downloads (Pure)
Projects
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Forensic Futures: Using 3D scanning and printing to achieve justice
Brown, K. (PI), Smith, P. (CoI) & Pakes, F. (CoI)
1/07/16 → 1/07/18
Project: Research
Activities
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Magistrates' National Annual Conference
Pakes, F. (Presented paper)
23 Nov 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Talk in Penology workshop
Pakes, F. (Speaker)
5 Sept 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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National Science Center (External organisation)
Pakes, F. (Chair)
10 Jul 2024 → 12 Jul 2024Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee or panel
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United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) (External organisation)
Pakes, F. (Chair)
10 Jul 2024 → 31 Dec 2024Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee or panel
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Presentation to Howard League Scotland event
Pakes, F. (Speaker)
21 May 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Press/Media
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Profile of people likely to commit insurance fraud
22/02/13
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert comment