Institute of Criminal Justice Studies

Profile

BA (Hons) MA Barrister. PhD
Expertise

• Cultural Criminology
• Representations of crime and criminals in literature, film and TV.
• Crime and the news media
• History of popular criminology.
• Homicide
• Criminal law.
• The demonisation of young offenders
• Semiotics and critical discourse analysis.

Research Projects

• Children as hidden victims of crime.
• The relationship between popular and academic criminology

Publications

• Bretherick D, Court in a Trap?: The Pitfalls Inherent in the Amended Provisions of S40 of the County Courts Act 1984. Law Society Gazette. Vol 91 No 14 (13th April 1994)
• Bretherick D, Setting Off Interlocutory Costs. Solicitor's Journal Vol 139 No 4 (3rd February 1995)
• Bretherick D, DNA: Worth its Weight in Gold? Solicitor's Journal Expert Witness Supplement. (November 1995)
• Cusick L, Bretherick D and Goodman T, Children as Unsupported Victims of crime.Youth and Policy, Issue 73 pp 35-44 (Autumn 2001)
• Bretherick D, The Laughing Policeman. Criminal Justice Matters No.59 Spring 2005.