Criminal Justice and Criminology
The Criminal Justice and Criminology research group is primarily focused on Gender and Crime Critical Criminology, Bioethics and Crime, Criminal Evidence, Human Rights, Hate Crime, State Crime, Culture of Fear, Penal Welfarism, Alternatives to Incarceration, Political Theory.
Our group is focused on the study and research in the areas of Traditional knowledge, bioethics, gender studies, honour based violence, honour killings, honour based violence against LGBTIs, honour killings in Turkey, human rights, state crime, organised crime, torture, incarceration in the UK, prison studies in the EU, culture of fear, penal reforms, restorative justice, community remedies, probation, EU arrest warrant, European Criminal Justice, victimology, penology, political theory, political violence and terrorism, criminal evidence, youth crime, human trafficking, drug trafficking, youth crime, policing, human rights, freedom of expression, policing, cybercrime, organised crime and terrorism.
Meet the team
Staff | Professional titles | Research areas |
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John Moore | Dr Senior Lecturer | Imprisonment and penology, crimes of the powerful, crimes in the history of the British Empire |
Barbara Henry | Dr Principle Lecturer Associate dean (academic quality assurance) Associate dean (research) | Criminal law, legal history in the context of criminal justice and criminology, public law and intellectual property law from a criminology perspective. |
Qi Chen | Dr Senior Lecturer FHEA | Community penalties, penology, social media and penal policy, sexual offences and feminism, social control and governance, comparative criminal justice, Chinese studies, qualitative and quantitative methods |
Matt Tidmarsh | Dr Lecturer | Interdisciplinary studies of criminology, sociology, and social policy; probation and professionalism, especially on how managerialism and marketisation have impacted culture(s), identities, and practices within the probation service |
Mateja Vuk | Dr Lecturer | Imprisonment, penology, prison officers, the experience of prisoners |
Helen Arnold | Senior Lecturer | Offender rehabilitation and punishment, re-entry, public opinion, wellbeing and time utilisation of offenders in prisons, public opinion toward immigrant offenders |
Ferya Tas-Cifci | Dr Principal Lecturer | Honour-based crime, gender and crime; Victimology and victim’ rights |
Anna Tippett | Dr Senior Lecturer | Body politics, deviancy, feminism, gender, sexualisation, sexuality |
Muki Gorar | Dr Senior Lecturer | Gender based violence, honour based violence, domestic violence and human rights |
Sue Brown | Lecturer MA, BA(Hons) in Criminology AFHEA | Media and crime, senior women in the police, portrayal of women in the media / tv drama - particularly of senior women in the police, restorative Justice, domestic violence/honour based violence, terrorism History of crime/society attitudes - particularly towards women, the abolition of the death penalty then and now |
Chamu Kuppuswamy | Dr Senior Lecturer | Restorative justice, criminal remedies for IP infringement |
Kofi Addo | Dr Lecturer | War crime, state crime, psychology of criminal behaviour, terrorism, policing |
Nicola Coleman | Lecturer | Youth crime and justice, the involvement of children and young person in youth justice research, children and young people’s lived experiences of criminal justice |
Sadie Button | Visiting Lecturer MSc, BSc, BA, HEA Fellow Non-practising solicitor | Young people and policing, youth crime, youth justice and police |
Emma Hooper | Visiting Lecturer | Psychology of criminal behaviour |
Honor Townshend | Visiting Lecturer | Image and performance enhancing drugs, gender, drugs, netnography |
Loren Aliu | Visiting Lecturer | Sexual offences, feminism, social media and penal policy, jury trial, comparative criminal justice |