An Nuytiens is a postdoctoral researcher and a professor at the Research Group Crime & Society (CRiS) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She conducted studies on restorative youth justice, transfer of juvenile offenders to Adult Court, youth offenders’ profiles and delinquent pathways, and women in prison.
In recent years her research interest is in the area of female offenders. Currently, her work focuses on life histories and criminal careers of female prisoners, delinquent pathways of girls in the juvenile justice system, gendered pathways to crime and prison, motherhood in prison, and on Roma girls in the youth justice and criminal justice system.