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Dr Anton Symkovych

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Name: Anton Symkovych
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Email:听asymkovych@uj.ac.za

About Dr Anton Symkovych

Dr Anton Symkovych is an internationally recognised prison scholar whose research explores carceral order, legitimacy, and penal subjectivities across the Global North, South, and East. Over the past two decades, he has conducted extensive ethnographic research in men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 prisons in England, South Africa, and Ukraine, examining how carceral power is produced, contested, and lived.

Dr Symkovych has published widely in leading international journals on the lived experience of incarceration, prison governance, and penal policy. Before entering academia, he worked in youth justice and social care鈥攆irst as a mental health intern in a juvenile hall and later as a social worker in a group home for teenage boys on parole in California. These early experiences continue to shape his commitment to grounded, empirically rich research that bridges scholarship and practice.

He serves on the Consultative Expert Council of the Criminal-Executive Service of Ukraine and contributes to several professional organisations and community-based initiatives dedicated to advocacy, social change, and building stronger, more inclusive communities.

Qualifications:

  • PhD in Criminology, 欧美福利100000 of Cambridge (UK)
  • MPhil in Criminological Research, 欧美福利100000 of Cambridge (UK)
  • Master鈥檚 in Social Work (MSW) (with distinction), California State 欧美福利100000-Fresno (USA)
  • Certificate in Applied Psychology, Uzhhorod National 欧美福利100000 (Ukraine)
  • BA in Sociology (with distinction), Uzhhorod National 欧美福利100000 (Ukraine)

Recent publications:

Symkovych, A. (2025) 鈥樷��,听Social Problems, 72(3): 1135鈥�1151.
Dunn, L. M., Symkovych, A. and Johns, D. (2025) 鈥樷��,听Criminology and Criminal Justice, 25(5): 1463鈥�1485.
Symkovych, A. (2024) 鈥樷��, in Arnold, H., Maycock, M., and Ricciardelli, R. (eds)听Prison Officers: International Perspectives on Prison Work. London: Palgrave Macmillan: 57鈥�81.
Symkovych, A. (2023a) 鈥樷��,听Theoretical Criminology, 27(3): 481鈥�498.
Symkovych, A. (2023b) 鈥樷��, in Bartlett, T. and Ricciardelli, R. (eds)听Prison Masculinities: International Perspectives and Interpretations. London: Routledge: 67鈥�83.
Symkovych, A. (2022) 鈥樷��,听European Journal of Criminology, 19 (5): 1225鈥�1242.
Symkovych, A. (2020a) 鈥樷��,听Theoretical Criminology, 24 (2): 202鈥�221.
Symkovych, A. (2020b) 鈥樷��,听European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 26 (2): 195鈥�210.
Symkovych, A. (2019) 鈥樷��, The Prison Journal, 99 (1): 89鈥�111.
Symkovych, A. (2018a) 鈥樷��,听British Journal of Criminology, 58 (1): 200鈥�217.
Symkovych, A. (2018b) 鈥樷��,听British Journal of Criminology, 58 (5): 1087鈥�1106.
Symkovych, A. (2018c) 鈥樷��,听Current Sociology, 66 (7): 1087鈥�1105.
Symkovych, A. (2018d) 鈥樷��,听Men and Masculinities, 21 (5): 665鈥�686.
Symkovych, A. (2017) 鈥樷��,听The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 56 (1): 1鈥�18.