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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.

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:

in Critical Criminology
and Comparative Criminology
in Theoretical Criminology
Responsible submission: The racialised consequences of neoliberal juvenile justice practices in Social Justice
in Journal of Youth Studies
in Punishment & Society
in Incarceration: An International Journal of Imprisonment, Detention and Coercive Confinement

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

Activism against medicine on social media: Untangling the #novax protest on Twitter in Medical Misinformation and Social Harm in Non-Science Based Health Practices: A multidisciplinary perspective published by Routledge

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

Impact: Regulating advanced digital surveillance through the power of social sciences research.

Pam Cox

Insight: Why were the Victorians better at rehabilitating child offenders
(Report commissioned by the Office of the Victims鈥� Commissioner)

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 -

Death penalty sentencing mitigation unit

Eamonn Carrabine

Carlos Solar

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.