Intellectual Focus
Criminological theory, criminal cultures, organisations and markets, victimology, criminal investigation, the changing nature of crime, alcohol and public disorder, punishment and control, the relationship between privatised control strategies and urban regeneration, gender and social control, the emergence of cross border criminal activity, violence.
The current research priority areas for this cluster are criminological theory, criminal cultures, organisations and markets, victimology, criminal investigation, the changing nature of crime, alcohol and public disorder, punishment and control, the relationship between privatised control strategies and urban regeneration, gender and social control, the emergence of cross border criminal activity, gender, human rights, and violence.
Key members of cluster
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Janet Foster, Senior Lecturer in Sociology: qualitative researcher on crime, community and policing issues; impact of the Stephen Lawrence Enquiry on Policing in Britain; murder investigation
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Paul Rock: Professor of Social Institutions: development of criminal justice policies, particularly for victims of crime; criminological theory and the history of crime
Associate members include:
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Nikolas Rose, Martin White Professor of Sociology: sociology of risk, control and government; normality and abnormality.
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Maurice Punch, Visiting Professor: corruption, corporate crime, policing.
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Francis Heidensohn: Visiting Professor in the Sociology Department at LSE and Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of London: gender and crime; feminist perspectives in criminology; gender and law enforcement and on international and comparative studies on crime and justice.
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David Downes: Emeritus Professor. Criminal justice policy, prisons, social control, the politics of crime and control.
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Stan Cohen, formerly Martin White Professor of Sociology: social control, criminological theory, mass media, juvenile delinquency, criminal justice policy, prisons, political violence and human rights violations
Esteem
Members of this cluster have received research funding from the ESRC, the Home Office, and the EEC. They have engaged with a wide range of users, contributed to policy debates at the highest levels, and have been called upon as experts by law enforcement, governmental agencies, pressure groups and official bodies. Members of this cluster have presented their work to national and international academic audiences, serve on the editorial boards of the leading sociological and criminological journals, and are active on the editorial boards of key book series. Members of this cluster have also had their work recognized by the award of academic prizes, and prestigious international fellowships.
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Foster: Editorial boards of British Journal of Criminology and Policing and Society. Advisor to HM Treasury and The Home Office on crime prevention and police leadership, regular contributor to the police Senior Leadership Development Programme and, through work with CEPOL, debates on policing in Europe. Invited speaker at the Urban Summit run by the Deputy Prime Minister's Office and the German Sociological Association.
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Rock: Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, 1997-.Fellow of the British Academy, July 2000- . Plenary lectures delivered at the American Society of Criminology meetings in 2002. Founder, sometime general editor and editorial board member of the Clarendon Criminology Series, Oxford University Press. Member of the editorial board of the GlassHouse Press Social Policy series. Member of the Advisory Board of Ethnographic Studies, 1994-. Member of the international editorial board of Criminal Justice, 1999-; appointed Key Expert on victims by the European Community in the Phare Horizontal Programme, 2001-2.- Visiting Fellow, Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) Australian National University, 2005; Visiting Professor, Jerry Lee Center, University of Pennsylvania, 2006-00
Doctoral students
From October 2006 this cluster will have 21 PhD students (4 of these start with Hobbs Oct 2006)
Linked Masters Programme
MSc Criminology, provides additional critical mass, contacts with professional bodies for future research, dissertations researching relevant themes and pathways for future doctoral students.
Funded research
Since 2001: Home Office: Alcohol and Violence, £120,000. Home Office and Prison Service: Drugs and Prison Visitors £36,000. ESRC: Female Doorstaff £120,000. Sunderland City Council: Alcohol Service Provision £7,000. EEC. Assessing Organised Crime. £70,000. Home Office/Matrix, Upper Level Drug Dealing. £400,000. DCA evaluation of the Victims' Advocates Pilots, £22,000. Home Office The impact of the Stephen Lawrence Enquiry on Policing in Britain, £305,000
Outreach
Mannheim Centre monthly seminars
Future strategy
To build on our expertise in victims, policing, organised crime and the night-time economy, and to bid for research grants that reflect this expertise.