Institute of Criminal Justice Studies

Tom Ellis

Mr Tom Ellis

Principal Lecturer

ICJS

Institute of Criminal Justice Studies
University of Portsmouth
St George's Building
141 High Street
Portsmouth,
PO1 2HY

tom.ellis@port.ac.uk

Profile

BA (Hons) Social Science, Bristol Polytechnic, MSc. (Race Relations), University of Bristol

Thomas Ellis is a principal lecturer at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth. His areas of expertise include Japanese criminal justice, youth justice, prisons, prostitution, and race, diversity and criminal justice, where he sits on the Ministry of Justice's Race Statistics Advisory Board. Until 1999, he worked for the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate and also had a two-year spell at UNICRI based in Rome. Tom is also an external member of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) Research Panel.

Expertise

  • Project management, fieldwork, survey design, quantitative and qualitative analysis in large and small scale research and evaluation studies
  • Japanese and Korean criminal justice 
  • Youth justice
  • Prisons
  • Prostitution - Video Small / Large. "The News" - Newspaper Article
  • Race, diversity and criminal justice
  • Combat Sports

Current Research Projects

  • An evaluation of the introduction of personal issue body worn video cameras 2013-2014. Initial funding from Hampshire Police £18,000.
  • Evaluation of the Wessex Resettlement Consortium 2011-2012. Youth Justice Board. £50,000.

Previous Research Projects

  • Setting up a research-based Anglo-Japanese network on crime and criminal justice matters to facilitate effective knowledge transfer. Funded by £3,500 from The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, 2005-2006.
  • Research collaboration to produce Anglo-Japanese comparative criminal justice articles and book Funded by £10,000 from The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, 2006-2007.
  • Fundamental Review of Section 95 Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System. Funded by £54,000 from Criminal Justice System Race Unit (Home Office, CPS and DCA), 2004-2005.
  • Persistent Young Offenders Project, Portsmouth Youth Offending Team. Jointly responsible with Claire Nee (Director of the Centre for Forensic Psychology, University of Portsmouth). Funded by £35,000 from Portsmouth City Council / Single Regeneration Budget, 1999-date
  • Evaluation of Hampshire & Isle of Wight Race for Justice (Local Criminal Justice Board)  project impact on newcomer and BME community confidence in Criminal Justice. Funded by £7,500 from Criminal Justice System Race Unit (Home Office, CPS and DCA) 2005.
  • The Impact of Anti-racist Training in the Criminal Justice System: A Comparative Study of Canada and the UK. Joint pilot project in partnership with Department of Social & Political Science, Royal Holloway, University of London. Funded by $10,700 (Can.) from Canadian Studies Institutional Research Program, Canadian High Commission, 2002.
  • Establishing a Baseline of Sentencer Satisfaction in the Youth Courts. Funded by £9,000 from Wessex Youth Offending Team, 2001-2002
  • Improving Race Relations in Prisons (Partners of Prisoners). Management of instrument design and evaluation in collaborative project with Partners of Prisoners in the North West and published in Home Office Research, Development & Statistics Directorate Findings. Funded by £40,000 from Prisoner Administration Group, HM Prison Service, 2000-2001.
  • Establishing an outcome-based approach to ensuring compliance with probation orders in Humberside and Teesside. Project Leader with Research Assistant. Funded by £10,000 by Humberside and Teesside Probation Services, 2000-2001.
  • Previous applied research carried out for the Home Office Research, Development & Statistics Directorate (RDS) or United Nations Interregional Crime & Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) includes:
    • Enforcement of Community Penalties
    • Strategies for Effective Offender Supervision: HM Inspector of Prisons, First 'What Works' study
    • Community Sentence Demonstration Project
    • Comparative Study of Drugs Training for the police in eight countries
    • Cocaine Markets and Law Enforcement in five countries
    • Police and Criminal Evidence Act, Codes of Practice
    • Public Order Act, Section 5
    • Drinking and Disorder Project

Publications

(post-2001; earlier publications here)

Journal Articles

Books

Ellis, T. and Savage, S.P. (Eds) (2012) Debates in criminal justice: Key themes and issues. Oxford: Routledge. ISBN: 978-0-415-44591-7 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-415-44590-0 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-203-80448-3 (ebk) 

Book Chapters

  • Ellis, T. and Savage, S. (2012) Introduction. In T. Ellis, T. and S.P Savage (Eds) Debates in criminal justice: Key themes and issues. Oxford: Routledge. pp.1-3
  • Ellis, T. and Nash, M. (2012) Crime control or due process? In T. Ellis, T. and S.P Savage (Eds) Debates in criminal justice: Key themes and issues. Oxford: Routledge. pp.7-32
  • Ellis, T. and Savage, S. (2012) Restorative justice of retribution? In T. Ellis, T. and S.P Savage (Eds) Debates in criminal justice: Key themes and issues. Oxford: Routledge. pp.78-115
  • Ellis, T. and Lewis, C. (2012) Prison works! Or Prison works? In T. Ellis, T. and S.P Savage (Eds) Debates in criminal justice: Key themes and issues. Oxford: Routledge. pp.116-145
  • Ellis, T. and Silverstone, D. (2012) Legalise drugs? ? In T. Ellis, T. and S.P Savage (Eds) Debates in criminal justice: Key themes and issues. Oxford: Routledge. pp.149-200
  • Ellis, T., and Hall, N. (2010) Hate Crime. In J. M. Brown and E. A. Campbell. (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press.
  • 浜井浩一・Tom Ellis(トム エリス), 2009, 「日本における厳罰化とポピュリズム---マスコミと法務・検察の役割、被害者支援運動」(犯罪社会学会編(責任編集：浜井浩一), 2009, 『グローバル化する厳罰化とポ ピュリズム』現代人文社, 90-127.)
    (Hamai, K. and Ellis, T. (2009). Genbatsuka: Growing Penal Populism and the changing role of Public Prosecutors in Japan? In the Japanese Association of Sociological Criminology. (Ed.), Globalized Penal Populism and its Countermeasures. Tokyo: Gendaijinbunsha)
  • Ellis, T., Lewis, C., Hamai, K. and Williamson, T. (2008) Japanese Community Policing Under the Microscope. In T. Williamson (Ed) The Handbook of Knowledge-based policing: Current Conceptions and Future Directions. Chichester: Wiley.pp.175-197
    The Handbook of Knowledge based Policing
  • 克里斯 • 路易斯，汤姆 • 艾里斯 (2007)。英国刑事被害人保护的法律、政策与实践。 张鸿巍主编，刑事被害人保护问题研究。 北京：人民法院出版社。
    (Victim protection in the United Kingdom: Policies, Practice and the Law.) In Zhang, H. W. (Ed.), Studies on Victim Protections. Beijing: Court Press - China Court.
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  • Ellis, T. and Winstone, J. (2002) The policy impact of a survey of programme evaluations in England and Wales: towards a new corrections-industrial complex? In J. McGuire (Ed.) Offender Rehabilitation and Treatment: Effective programmes and policies. Chichester: John Wiley (Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology), 333-358 (ISBN: 0471987611).

Book Reviews

  • Ellis, T. (2002) Drugs and Crime, Bean, P., 2002, Book Review. In International Journal of Police Science and Management, 5(2), 146-148.
  • Ellis T. (2005) What Works in Probation and Youth Justice: Developing evidence-based practice, R. Burnett and C. Roberts (Eds) Willan Publishing, Cullompton, 2004; Punishment and Politics: Evidence and emulation in the making of English crime control policy, Tonry, M. Willan Publishing, Cullompton, 2004; Criminal Justice and Political Cultures: National and international dimensions of crime control, T. Newburn and R. Sparks, Willan Publishing, Cullompton, 2004; A Suitable Amount of Crime, N. Christie, Routledge, London. In Social Policy & Administration, 39 (3), 323-336.

Official Publications

  • Brooks, G., Ellis, T. and Demott, R. (2007), 다이버젼으로의 ‘훈방?’ 변화 그리고 영국경찰의 청소년 사범 대책
    (Brooks, G., Ellis, T. and Demott, R. (2007), 'Cautionary Tales'? Changes to Diversion and Policing Young Offenders,) In: Korean Criminology Association (KCA)'s International Youth Justice Conference on 'Police Diversion Policies and Regulations in the U.S., Great Britain, Japan and South Korea', May 30th 2007, Seoul: National Police Agency
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  • Lewis, C. and Ellis, T. (2006) Root and Branch Review of Race and the CJS Statistics: Final Report. London : Home Office/Criminal Justice System
    Government's response to review
    Table of impact of review recommendations and government response:
  • Ellis, T., Tedstone, C. and Curry, D. (2004) Improving race relations in prisons: what works? Home Office Online Report 12/04.
  • Ellis, T. and Winstone, J. (2002) Halliday, Sentencers and the National Probation Service. Criminal Justice Matters, 46(Winter).
  • Hedderman, C., Ellis, T. & Sugg, D. (1999) Increasing Confidence in Community Sentences: The results of two demonstration projects. Home Office Research Study 194. London: Home Office (ISSN 0072 6435, ISBN 1 84082 252 X)

Other Publications

  • Al Hashemi, A. Brooks, G. and Ellis, T. (2010) Examining the relationship between migration, labour and crime in the UAE: Crime prevention and the case of Dubai, Asian Association of Police Studies (AAPS) pp. 451-465, Seoul, AAPS
  • Brooks, G. Chen, Fei-Lin. Lewis, C. and Ellis, T. (2010) Youth Crime: Policing and preventing young offenders 'at risk' in Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) and England and Wales, Asian Association of Police Studies (AAPS) pp. 175-197, Seoul, AAPS.
  • Ellis T. and Hamai, K. (2007) Crime and criminal justice in modern Japan: From re-integrative shaming to popular punitivism, Japan Focus
  • Brooks, G., Ellis T., and Lewis, C. (2007) Pachinko: Declining Popularity or a Continuing Japanese Social Problem? Japan Focus
  • Scurlock. B. and Ellis, T. (2005) Mauritius: Police Force. In L.E. Sullivan and M.R. Haberfield (Eds) Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement, Volume 3, International. Thousand Oaks:Sage, pp.1184-1186.

Conference and Symposium Papers

2010

  • Brooks, G. Chen, Fei-Lin. Lewis, C. and Ellis, T. (2010) Youth Crime: Policing and preventing young offenders 'at risk' in Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) and England and Wales, Asian Association of Police Studies (AAPS) and National Police University, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design and Community Policing, Seoul, South Korea 23-26 June, 2010
  • Al Hashemi, A. Brooks, G. and Ellis, T. (2010) Examining the relationship between migration, labour and crime in the UAE: Crime prevention and the case of Dubai, Asian Association of Police Studies and National Police University, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design and Community Policing, Seoul, South Korea 23-26 June, 2010
  • Brooks, G. Chen, Fei-Lin. Lewis, C. and Ellis, T. (2010) Youth Crime: Policing and preventing young offenders 'at risk' in Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) and England and Wales, Asian Association of Police Studies (AAPS) and National Police University, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design and Community Policing, Seoul, South Korea 23-26 June, 2010
  • Al Hashemi, A. Brooks, G. and Ellis, T. (2010) Examining the relationship between migration, labour and crime in the UAE: Crime prevention and the case of Dubai, Asian Association of Police Studies and National Police University, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design and Community Policing, Seoul, South Korea 23-26 June, 2010
  • Brooks, G. Chen, Fei-Lin. Lewis, C. and Ellis, T. (2010) Youth Crime: Policing and preventing young offenders 'at risk' in Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) and England and Wales, Asian Association of Police Studies (AAPS) and National Police University, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design and Community Policing, Seoul, South Korea 23-26 June, 2010
  • Al Hashemi, A. Brooks, G. and Ellis, T. (2010) Examining the relationship between migration, labour and crime in the UAE: Crime prevention and the case of Dubai, Asian Association of Police Studies and National Police University, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design and Community Policing, Seoul, South Korea 23-26 June, 2010
  • Al Hashemi, A., Ellis, T., Brooks, G. and Lewis, C. (2010) Examining the relationship between migration, labour and crime in the UAE British Society of Criminology Conference, Leicester, 11-14 July, 2010

2008

  • Tom Ellis and Nick Pamment (Doctoral student) (2008) Intensive Supervision & Surveillance: Importing failure for Youth Justice? International Symposium on Probation Research, Probation Headquarters, Seoul, South Korea 8 September 2008
  • Tom Ellis and Mark Jacobs (2008) Increasing Punitiveness in the UK: Rhetoric & Frustration? Panel on Globalised penal populism and its countermeasures. European Criminology Conference, Edinburgh, 3 September 2008 
  • Koichi Hamai and Tom Ellis (2008) Genbatsuka: Growing Penal Populism and the changing role of Public Prosecutors in Japan? Panel on Globalised penal populism and its countermeasures. European Criminology Conference, Edinburgh, 3 September 2008 
  • Tom Ellis, Karen Shalev & Chris Lewis (2008) The Effectiveness of the Kainos Challenge to Change (CtC) programme, European Criminology Conference, Edinburgh, 3 September 2008 
  • Tom Ellis (2008) Organiser of Joint HEA/BSC panel on 'Combining research and teaching in Criminology at British Society of Criminology Conference, University of Huddersfield Thursday, 10 July, 2008 11:00 - 12:30 and 15:45 - 17:15 and presented papers on:
    • Dumbing down or rounding up? Ensuring students have a balanced intellectual education
    • Tom Ellis and Nick Pamment (Doctoral student) (2008) Intensive Supervision & Surveillance: Importing failure for Youth Justice?
  • Brooks G. and Ellis, T (2008) Casino culture: managing risk, funding public services and establishing care. Paper presented at Portsmouth Business School Research and Knowledge Transfer Conference June 10, 2008

2007

  • Rob Demott (post-graduate student) & Tom Ellis (2007) Do ASBOs work for youth justice? British Society of Criminology Conference, London, LSE, 18-20 September 2007
  • Tom Ellis (2008) Teaching Research on Non-research criminal justice courses. British Society of Criminology Conference, London, LSE, 18-20 September 2007.
  • Tom Ellis (2007) Teaching Research on Non-research criminal justice courses. Invited paper:
    • HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY 'Teaching Criminology' Conference
    • SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY 25 June 2007
  • Organiser of Panel on Japanese Criminal Justice at European Criminology Conference, Bologna, September 26-29, 2007  and presenter of following papers:
    • Koichi Hamai & Tom Ellis (2007) Japanese criminal justice: was re-integrative shaming a chimera?
    • Tom Ellis, Chris Lewis & Koichi Hamai (2007) A Comparison of Justice in Japan and England & Wales
    • Tom Ellis & Koichi Hamai (2007) Response to Malcolm Feeley
    • Tom Ellis & Koichi Hamai (2007) Response to Dag Leonardson
  • Graham Brooks, Tom Ellis & Rob Demott (Doctoral student) (2007) 'Cautionary Tales'? Changes to Diversion and Policing Young Offenders, Paper presented at Korean Criminology Association (KCA)'s International Youth Justice Conference, Seoul, South Korea, 30th May 2007.
  • Joint organiser of ANGLO-JAPANESE SYMPOSIUM ON POLICING, PROSECUTIONS AND SENTENCING, Corrections & Rehabilitation Research Center (CRRC) Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan. March 3 & 4, 2007


2006

  • Tom Ellis and Claire Nee (2006) Causes of offending in young people, how it can be reduced, and cautionary tales. Eurocities Conference: Leeds City Council. Friday 1 December 2006, Queen's Hotel, Leeds
  • Joint organiser of ANGLO-JAPANESE SYMPOSIUM ON PRISONS AND PROBATION, Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth, 13 - 15 September, 2006.
  • Joint organiser of ANGLO-JAPANESE SYMPOSIUM ON YOUTH JUSTICE, Corrections & Rehabilitation Research Center (CRRC) Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan.March 4, 2006

2005

  • Jointly organised with BSC and YJB the YJB/BSC Youth Justice Research Methodologies Workshop, London, Jolly Hotel, St James Park, 19 July 2005. Panel discussant and presented the paper:
    • Tom Ellis, Claire Nee and Amy Wilson (2005) Reducing Juvenile and child offending: Intervention and dosage.
  • Tom Ellis (2005) Reducing racism in the police: is training the answer? British Society of Criminology Conference, University of Leeds 12th- 14th July 2005

2004

  • Tom Ellis, Claire Nee & Izi Boden (Undergraduate student) (2004) Facilitating knowledge transfer through teaching undergraduate research methods in Criminology, European Society of Criminology Conference, 26 August 2004, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Member of ICJS conference organising committee, British Society of Criminology Conference, University of Portsmouth, 6-9 July 2004, and presented following papers:
    • David Denney and Tom Ellis (2004) Race, Diversity and Criminal Justice in Canada
    • Tom Ellis and Claire Nee (2004) Reducing criminality in children: an innovative approach
    • Tom Ellis, Koichi Hamai, Chris Lewis and Tom Williamson (2004) Rising crime in Japan - Myths, media and the role of the police
    • Tom Ellis and Izi Boden (Undergraduate student) (2004) Is there a unifying professional culture in Youth Offending Teams?