糖心Vlog

Centre for criminology

Our research

Home to some of the most influential criminologists of the past 50 years

The Centre for Criminology at 糖心Vlog has both produced and attracted some of the most influential criminologists of the past 50 years, and continues to push intellectual and policy boundaries, while training and supporting the next generation of criminologists for the future. 

Research interests, projects and publications have been wide-ranging, from studies of the personal and the cultural, through the mapping of organised and corporate criminality, to investigations of state systems of support and intervention, surveillance and violence - all with a critical and sociological approach as the common core.

portrait photograph of Dr Anna Di Ronco
"Our research at the centre is distinctive for its sociological and critical approach to deviance, crime, criminalisation and justice.鈥
Dr聽Anna Di Ronco聽 DIRECTOR, CENTRE FOR CRIMINOLOGY

Highlights from our researchers

Professor Eamonn Carrabine

Biography:

Eamonn Carrabine is a professor of sociology at the 糖心Vlog, where his teaching and research interests lie in the fields of criminology, cultural studies and sociology more generally.

Below you will find highlights of the work that Eamonn has authored and co-authored in relation to the work of the Centre for Criminology:

Journals:

  • in Current Sociology
  •  in Critical Criminology
  • in Criminology and Criminal Justice
  •  in Theoretical Criminology
  • in Deviant Behavior
  • in The Sociological Review
  • in Sociology
  • in Crime, Media, Culture
  • in Theoretical Criminology
  • in British Journal of Criminology
  •  in Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal
  • in Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
  • in British Journal of Criminology
  • in Sociological Review
  • in Punishment and Society
  • in Social Justice
  • in Theoretical Criminology
  • in New Formations
  • in The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice

Books:

  • published by Routledge
  •  published by MacMillan
  • published by Routledge
  • published by Routledge
  •  published by Cambridge
  • published by Ashgate Publishing
  • published by Oxford University Press

Selected Book Chapters: 

  • in the Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies published by Routledge
  • Reading pictures: Piranesi and Carceral landscapes in the  published by Emerald Publishing
  • in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture published by Oxford University Press
  • in the Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology published by Routledge
  • in Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology published by Routledge
  • in Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology published by Routledge
  •  in Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology published by Routledge
  • in Alternative Criminologies published by Routledge
  • in The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism published by Palgrave
  • in Liquid Criminology: Doing Imaginative Criminological Researchpublished by Ashgate
  • in Handbook on Prisons published by Routledge
  • in C. Wright Mills and the Criminological Imaginationpublished by Ashgate Publishing
  • in The Routledge Handbook of Qualitative Criminology published by Routledge
  • in The Palgrave Handbook of Sociology in Britain published by Palgrave Macmillan
  • in The Routledge Handbook of International Crime and Justice Studies published by Routledge
  • in The Arts of Imprisonment: Essays on Control, Resistance and Empowerment published by Ashgate Publishing
  •  in Cultural Theory: Classical and Contemporary Positions published by Sage
  • Punishment, rights and justice in  published by Routledge

Dr Alexandra Cox

Biography:

Alexandra Cox is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the 糖心Vlog. Her research interests lie in the consequences of confinement for young people and in the role of mercy in the lives of people sentenced to extreme prison sentences.

Below you will find highlights of the work that Alexandra has authored and co-authored in relation to the work of the Centre for Criminology:

Journals:

Books:

  •  published by Rutgers University Press in Critical Issues in Crime and Society

Professor Pamela Cox

Pamela Cox is a professor specialising in criminal justice history, social history and gender. She is currently leading an interdisciplinary ESRC project on victims鈥 access to justice in English criminal courts over three centuries.

Below you will find highlights of the work that Pam has authored and co-authored in relation to the work of the Centre for Criminology:

Journals:

  • in Societies
  • in Howard Journal of Crime and Justice
  •  in Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
  •  in Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law
  •  in the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
  • in Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law
  • in History Workshop Journal
  • in British Journal of Criminology
  •  in Journal of Law and Society
  • in the New Vietnam in Youth Justice

Books:

  •  published by Oxford University Press
  •  published by Routledge
  • published by Hutchinson
  • published by Palgrave Macmillan
  • published by Oxford University Press
  •  published by Ashgate Publishing

Dr Isabel Crowhurst

Biography:

Isabel Crowhurst is a senior lecturer, and her main research is concerned with the construction and socio-legal treatment of non-normative sexual practices and intimate lives, and how they are negotiated and made sense of in everyday lived experiences.

Below you will find highlights of the work that Isabel has authored and co-authored in relation to the work of the Centre for Criminology:

Journals:

  •  in Men and Masculinities
  • in Sexuality Research and Social Policy
  • in Sexuality Research and Social Policy
  • in Ethnologia Scandinavica 
  •  in the Journal of Political Power
  • in Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research
  • in Sociology

Books:

  • published by UCL Press
  • published by Routledge
  •  published by Routledge
  •  published by Routledge

Professor Pete Fussey

Pete Fussey is a professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of 糖心Vlog. His main research interests focus on surveillance, digital sociology, human rights, control and the city, and he has published widely across these areas

Below you will find highlights of the work that Pete has authored and co-authored in relation to the work of the Centre for Criminology:

Journals:

  •  in Sociology
  • in Israel Law Review
  • in Disaster Prevention and Management
  • in The Geographical Journal
  • in Security Dialogue
  • in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
  • in Contemporary Social Science
  • in Critical Studies on Terrorism
  • in The British Journal of Sociology

Books:

  • published by Routledge
  • published by Routledge
  • published by Routledge

Professor Chris Greer

Biography:

Chris Greer is Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research (Designate) and Professor of Sociology. His research and teaching interests are in the broad areas of: Crime, media and criminal justice; Sociology of media and communication; Victimology; Punishment and penality; Criminological theory.

Below you will find highlights of the work that Chris has authored and co-authored in relation to the work of the Centre for Criminology:

Journals:

  • in European Journal of Cultural Studies
  • in The Political Quarterly
  • in Theoretical Criminology
  • in Oxford Handbook of Criminology
  • in Victims, Crime and Society
  • in Crime Media Culture: An International Journal
  • in Theoretical Criminology
  •  in British Journal of Criminology
  • in Social Justice

Books:

  • published by Sage
  • published by Routledge
  • published by Routledge

Dr聽Kat Hadjimatheou

Biography:

Kat Hadjimatheou is a lecturer in criminology. Her areas of expertise include police ethics, surveillance technologies, data-driven policing, domestic abuse and human trafficking.

Below you will find highlights of the work that Kat has authored and co-authored in relation to the work of the Centre for Criminology:

Journals:

  • in Criminology and Criminal Justice
  • in European Journal of Criminology
  •  in British Journal of Criminology, Volume 57
  • in Criminal Justice Ethics
  • in Philosophy & Technology
  • in Law and Philosophy
  • in Policing and Society
  • in the European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin

Books:

  • published by Routledge

 

Dr Johanna Romer

Johanna R枚mer is a lecturer, and her research examines how state power and political authority are produced through the everyday interactions and experiences of persons working within and subject to criminal justice institutions.

Below you will find highlights of the work that Johanna has authored and co-authored in relation to the work of the Centre for Criminology:

Journals:

  • in Punishment and Society

Dr Anna Di Ronco

Biography:

Anna Di Ronco is a senior lecturer in criminology. Her main research interests lie in regulation, representation and enforcement regarding urban incivilities, and in the use of social media by criminalised environmental movements.

Journals:

  •  in Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal
  • in the European Journal of Criminology
  • in Crime, Law & Social Change
  • in the International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice
  • in Criminology and Criminal Justice
  • in Crime, Law and Social Change
  • in Crime Prevention and Community Safety
  •  in the International Journal of Law Crime and Justice
  • in Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal
  • in European Journal of Criminology
  • in Crime, Law and Social Change

Books:

  • published by Routledge
  • published by Routledge

  • published by Routledge 

Selected Book Chapters:

  • From harmless incivilities to not-so serious organised crime activities. The expanded realm of European crime prevention and some suggestions on how to limit it in published by Eleven International Publishing 

  • Constructing migrants as crime and public order problems: Comparing local press representations in two Italian cities in published by Eleven International Publishing

  • Fraud victims or unwary accomplices? An exploratory study of online communities supporting quack medicine in  published by Wolf Legal Publisher

  • Understanding uncivil behaviour through urban culture and space in  published by Routledge 

  • Regulating street prostitution as a public nuisance in the 鈥渃ulture of consumption鈥: A comparative analysis between Birmingham, Brussels and Milan in  published by Antwerp

Dr Anna Sergi

Biography:

Anna Sergi is a senior lecturer. Her specialism is in organised crime, mafia studies, and comparative criminal justice.

Below you will find highlights of the work that Anna has authored and co-authored in relation to the work of the Centre for Criminology:

Journals:

  •  published by Kindle Direct Publishing & Amazon Media

  •  in Policing & Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy

  •  in European Journal of Criminology

  • in International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice

  • in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology

  • in Youth Justice
  • in Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice
  • in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 
  • in the European Journal of Criminal Policy and Research
  •  in the European Journal of Criminology

Books:

  •  published by Kindle Direct Publishing & Amazon Media
  •  published by Routledge 
  •  published by Palgrave Macmillan (Critical Criminological Series)
  •  published by Palgrave Macmillan

Dr Carlos Solar

Biography:

Carlos Solar is a lecturer in criminology. His research interests fit broadly under the areas of democratic governance; criminology, mostly on policing, corruption, and organised crime; and military studies.

Below you will find highlights of the work that Carlos has authored and co-authored in relation to the work of the Centre for Criminology:

Journals:

  • in British Politics
  • in Policy Studies
  • in Journal of Strategic Studies
  • in Contemporary Politics
  • in International Studies
  •  in Peace Review
  • societies in Current Sociology
  • in the Journal of Cyber Policy
  • in International Politics
  • in Journal of Strategic Studies
  • in Latin American Policy
  • in Global Crime
  •  in Democracy and Security
  • in Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos

Books:

  •  published by Routledge

Selected Book Chapters:

  • Chile: Defense governance and democratic consolidation in published by Lynne Rienner

Professor Nigel South

Biography:

Nigel South is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the 糖心Vlog. His research interests include environmental crime, green criminology and human rights; illegal and legal drug use; theoretical and comparative criminology; and public health and community services.

Below you will find highlights of the work that Nigel has authored and co-authored in relation to the work of the Centre for Criminology:

Journals:

  • in British Journal of Criminology
  •  in European Journal of Criminology
  • in International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
  • in International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
  • in Sociology Compass
  • in Theoretical Criminology
  • in Crime, Media, Culture
  • in Crime, Media, Culture
  • in Journal of Criminal Investigation and Criminology
  •  in Critical Criminology
  • in Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy
  • in International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice
  • in British Journal of Criminology
  • in Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research
  • in Critical Criminology
  • in International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
  • in Crime, Media, Culture
  • in Crime, Law and Social Change
  • in Critical Criminology
  •  in International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
  • in Deviant Behavior
  • in Critical Criminology
  • in Deviant Behavior
  • in Addiction Research and Theory
  • in Social Justice
  • in Theoretical Criminology
  • in British Journal of Sociology
  • in European Sociological Review
  • in British Journal of Criminology

Books:

  • published by Routledge

  • published by Palgrave

  • published by Palgrave

  • published Routledge

  • published by Palgrave

  • published by Routledge

  •  published by Routledge

  •  published by Free Association Books

  • published by Sage

  • published by UCL Press

  • published by Routledge

  • published by Sage

  • published by Macmillan

Selected Book Chapters:

  • Re-thinking public criminology: Politics, paradoxes and challenges in  published by Routledge
  • Green criminology in  published by Oxford University Press
  • The injustices of policing, law and multinational monopolisation in the privatisation of natural diversity: cases from Colombia and Latin America in Environmental Crime in  published by Palgrave Macmillan
  • Monstrous nature: A meeting of gothic, green and cultural criminologies in  published by Routledge
  • Reflections on three decades of research on 鈥榮ocial supply鈥 in the UK in  published by Springer
  • Earth, water, air, and fire: Environmental crimes, mafia power and political negligence in Calabria in  published by Springer
  • Heading toward a new criminogenic climate: Climate change, political economy and environmental security in  published by Springer
  • Drugs, alcohol and crime in  published by Oxford University Press
  • Climate change, environmental (in)security, conflict and crime in  published by Hart Publishing
  • The ecocidal tendencies of late modernity: Trans-national crime, social exclusion, victims and rights in  published by Taylor and Francis
  • The corporate colonisation of nature: Bio-prospecting, bio-piracy and the development of green criminology in  published by the International Specialized Book Services

Dr Darren Thiel

Biography:

Darren Thiel is a senior lecturer with research interests in public policy, criminal justice, policing and economic sociology.

Below you will find highlights of the work that Daniel has authored and co-authored in relation to the work of the Centre for Criminology:

Journals:

  • in Politix
  • in Homicide Studies
  • in Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies
  • in Routledge Handbook of Policing
  • in The Police Foundation
  • in Construction Management and Economics
  • in Economy and Society
  • in Plos One

Our projects

The Centre for Criminology has pioneered projects at the leading edge of the field 鈥 whether examining support for families interacting with the criminal justice system or the state of the planet and environmental harms. Contributing to public debate, policy evidence and scholarly discussion is what we do and our research has been making its impact on society ever since Stan Cohen wrote about 鈥楩olk Devils and Moral Panics鈥.

Explore our current research and past research projects below:

Pete Fussey

Pam Cox

Anna Sergi

Kat Hadjimatheou

  • Between 2016-2018 Kat led the ethics and law workstream of the on social media and public security
  • Between 2013-16 Kat delivered a confidential ethics advisory service to surveillance technology developers for the

Alexandra Cox -

Eamonn Carrabine

Carlos Solar

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Chris Greer

Anna Di Ronco

Isabel Crowhurst

Johanna Romer

2019 British Academy Leverhulme Small Grant: National Law, Transnational Justice? The role of legal status in parole decision-making in Catalonia, Spain

2020 ISRF Flexi-Grant with James Allen-Robertson Deciphering Violence: New Network Analytic Tools to Improve Hate Speech Detection Online

Nigel South

I am Co-PI on a Global Challenges Research Fund project on 鈥楥OVID-19, Indigenous Communities and Health Justice in Colombia鈥

Our members are at the forefront of criminological research

With their research and expertise, our members cover a wide range of topics within criminology. These include: crime and the media; organised crime; urban disorder and social control; racism, victims and victimology; sexual labour, regulation and human rights; drug use and markets; women, crime and criminal justice; security; surveillance; green criminology and crimes against the environment; terrorism and counter-terrorism; policing, prisons, punishment and the criminal justice system.

The breath and variety of our interests ensure our work crosses disciplinary boundaries as we draw upon sociology, history, law, urban and rural studies, anthropology, art and film studies, political science and much more.

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Centre for Criminology 糖心Vlog
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ
Department of Sociology and Criminology 糖心Vlog
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ
Telephone: 01206 873049