Women’s Pathways Into Prison: Cycles of Harm

WICC2025 Presentation by Hilde Tubex (WICC2025-PID026)

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Hilde Tubex

Academic, University of Western Australia, Australia

Professor Hilde Tubex is the Director of Criminology at the Law School of the University of Western Australia (UWA). Her areas of expertise are comparative criminology and penal policy, Indigenous peoples and the criminal justice system, criminalised women and throughcare.

Hilde Tubex obtained her PhD in Criminology from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium. After migrating to Australia in 2007, she worked for four years at the Department of Corrective Services in Western Australia as Team Leader Research and Evaluation. She then conducted the Women in Prison Survey 2008, based on qualitative semi-structured interviews with a representative sample of 64 women prisoners. In 2011 she resumed her academic career at UWA after winning a prestigious Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, investigating penal cultures in Australian jurisdictions. Over the years she was successful in ensuring 8 more grants and was involved in several research projects related to Indigenous peoples and women in the criminal justice system. Given the significant and ongoing increase of women in prison, she was invited by the WA Office of Crime Statistics and Research (WACSAR) of the Department of Justice to repeat the Profile of Women in Prison research in 2023. Based on interviews with 80 women in prison, this project builds a current profile of women in prison in Western Australia, it identifies the drivers of women’s’ imprisonment and their needs, to inform future practices and policies.

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