Institute of Criminal Justice Studies
Staff Research Interests
Azeem Aleem
Covers the broad field of information systems auditing and fraud detection including: cyber crime and policing, internet frauds, computer forensics and digital investigation, secure electronic transaction, management, planning and organisation of IS, business process evaluation and risk management.
Andy Bain
- Prisons
- Rehabilitation and Desistance
- Driving Behaviours
Diane Bretherick
Children as hidden victims of crime, the relationship between popular and academic criminology.
Graham Brooks
- Youth Crime
- Youth Justice
- Gambling and Crime
- Fraud and Counter Fraud
Dr Mark Button
- Private Policing
- Private Security
- Regulation of Private Security
- Counter Fraud and Corruption
David Carson
Investigations: Fact-finding, evidence, assessment, presentation and proof.
Risk: Human service professionals' - and systemic - decision-making.
Criminal responsibility: Analysis and assessment adopting behavioural science perspectives.
Dr Sarah Charman
- The Politics of Criminal Justice
- Police Culture
- Police Management
- Pressure Groups and Criminal Justice
Jane Creaton (currently on Secondment)
- Vulnerable Witnesses
- The Modernisation of the Legal Profession
- Legal Education and Continuing Professional Development
Tom Ellis
- Japanese and Korean Criminal Justice
- Youth Justice
- Prisons
- Prostitution
- Trafficking
- Race, Diversity and Criminal Justice
- Combat/Contact Sports
Bob Golding
- Organisational Management and Leadership
- Performance Management
- Gun & Knife Crime
- Programme and Project Management
- Change Management
- Police Reform
- Prostitution & Policing
Nathan Hall
Policing and diversity including policing (racist) hate crime, police relations with minority groups, police treatment of, and service to, victims of racist crime, police diversity and policy making.
Carol Hayden
- Children and Young People in Trouble
- Looked after Children
- Intervention with Children and Young People 'at risk'
- Violence in Childhood
- Exclusion and Disaffection from School
Amanda Holt
- Youth Justice
- Families and Crime
- Qualitative Methodologies
- Critical Psychology
- Psychosocial Criminology
Marc Jacobs
Issues related to theoretical criminology and social theory. Most notable concerns are with issues around constructions of crime, deviance and society and control.
John Jones
- Police Training
- Police Leadership
- Diversity & Equality
- Critical Incidents
- Multi-agency interoperability
Barry Loveday
- Police Reform
- Workforce Modernisation
- Leadership and Performance Management
- Community Safety and Partnership Arrangements
- Governance and Police Force Collaboration
- 2003 Licensing Act and the Night Time Economy
- PCSos and Street Wardens
- Local Governace of Police Forces
- Local Police and Crime Commissioners
- Anti Social Behaviour
Dr Becky Milne
- The Application and Analysis of the Cognitive Interview
- Investigative Interviewing
- Child Witnesses
- Vulnerable Groups and Investigation
Mark Mitchell
Practical consequences for agencies and professionals of implementing the Race Relations Amendment Act and other post-Macpherson reforms and the trafficking of refugees and asylum seekers across Europe.
Dr Mike Nash
- Dangerousness
- Probation and Criminal Justice
- Public Protection
Dr Paul Norman
Current research interests focus upon the development of European Union external relations in justice/home affairs and security fields and the role of the United Nations in counter terrorism. The latter focusses upon capacity-building and the monitoring / enforcement of state compliance in relation to the wider UN Global Counter Terrorism Strategy.
Other expertise includes international police policy-making and policy networks; policing organised crime; international police cooperation; EU and Council of Europe justice and home affairs co-operation; international and transnational offending; EU openness, transparency and accountability.
Dr Francis Pakes
- International and Comparative Criminal Justice
- Decision-Making in Policing and Prosecution and Crime Prevention
Nick Pamment
Having worked within a Youth Offending Team (YOT) for a number of years my main area of interest is in youth crime and youth justice, specifically community sentences including the Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme (ISSP) and community service (reparation). Other areas of interest include critical incident response, specifically the working relationship of emergency services at major incidents (decision making and organisational cultures).
Professor Stephen Savage
- Social and Public Policy and Police and Criminal Justice
- Currently Engaged in the Study of Miscarriages of Justice
Dr Karen Shalev
- Offender Decision-Making
- Offender Profiling
- Crime Mapping
- Property Offenders
- Missing Persons
Dr Andrea Shawyer
Expertise: Investigative Interviewing; Fraud - public sector and Police. Research Methods and SPSS.
False confessions.
Detecting deception.
Dr Geoffrey Smith
- Fraud
- Risk and Risk Management
- Risk and Governance and Health and Safety
Paul Smith
Developments in crime scene examinations and forensic science with a specific interest in the effects of technology on policing and criminal investigations.
Dr Jacki Tapley
- Victimology
- Probation and the Prison Service
- Gender and Criminology
My research interests focus on victims of crime, their experiences of the criminal justice system and how the criminal justice agencies respond to victims. There has been a plethora of recent legislation impacting on the relevant agencies and outlining their responsibilities towards victims. My current research focuses on how some of these policies are being implemented, in particular, with regards to domestic violence and the implementation of Specialist Domestic Violence Courts.
Andy Williams
- Criminal Profiling
- Forensic Science
- Dangerous Offenders
- Vigilantism
- Monitoring Protocols
Jane Winstone
Ethics and methodological research of the "What Works" agenda and its links to the practitioner-researcher role, enforcement, sentencing reforms and equality of offender experience.