Academic staff
- Dr Laura Naegler (Co-Director) - Cultural and political resistance, new forms of activism and protest, and crime control, social control and political activism in Singapore.
- Dr Joseph Greener (Co-Director) - Critical perspectives of social policy and criminology; abuse and neglect in the elderly care labour process; service user-led methodologies; the impact of austerity on mental distress.
- Dr Gemma Ahearne - The sex industry, women in prison, vulnerability/exploitation-nexus, women's centres.
- Dr David Baker - Policing and accountability, specifically in relation to people who die after contact with the police.
- Dr Gregory Davies - Devolution, particularly in Wales; the political functions of the judiciary within the UK's territorial constitution; prisoners' rights; Marxist and other materialist approaches to legal and constitutional analysis.
- Professor Barry Godfrey - Comparative criminology, desistence, international crime history, sentencing, longitudinal patterns of offending.
- Professor Barry Goldson - Comparative research, knowledge-policy relations, children’s/young people’s human rights and justice, juvenile/youth justice, penality, prisons.
- Dr Laura Gutiérrez - Green criminology, wildlife criminology, socio-environmental conflict, crimes of the powerful, Global North-Global South dynamics.
- Dr Lynn Hancock - Communities and crime, crime prevention, community safety, public participation and criminal justice, urban regeneration and crime control.
- Dr Antoinette Huber - Cybercrime, sexual violence, gender, victimology, feminism, extremist group online, online abuse, digital criminology.
- Dr Alice Ievins - Prisons (in particular the imprisonment of men convicted of sex offences), punishment, penal theory, shame and guilt, comparative punishment.
- Dr Carly Lightowlers Administrative and secondary data analysis, alcohol, crime and violence, criminal justice processes and outcomes, intoxication in sentencing, quantitative methods, the 2011 English 'riots'.
- Dr Ross McGarry - Criminological realism, critical criminology, criminology of war, military criminology/sociology, victimology.
- Professor Fiona Measham - Drug trends, drug policy, drug checking, night time economy, festivals, gender, sexuality.
- Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas - EU criminal law; transnational criminal law; law of economic crime; terrorism and human rights; criminalsiation of migration; surveillance; environmental crime.
- Dr Leon Moosavi - The internationalisation of Higher Education, academic imperialism, orientalism in academia and decolonising knowledge.
- Professor Gabe Mythen - Risk, regulation, power, security policy, terror, and counter-terrorism.
- Dr Katy Roscoe - Global mobilities, unfree labour and racial inequalities, mid-nineteenth century crime and punishment in Britain and its former empire (Australia, Bermuda and Gibraltar).
- Dr Liz Turner - Criminal justice policy, democracy and criminal justice, police and policing, public confidence in criminal justice, public criminology.
- Professor Sandra Walklate - Criminology of war, gender and crime, risk, resilience, terror and counter-terrorism, victimology.
- Dr Shuai Wei - Gender, law, and crime, with an international and comparative perspective.
Affiliated members
- Professor Jon Cole (Institute of Population Health) - Aggression, drug use, prevention, violence.
- Dr Sean Columb - Anti-trafficking, international criminal law, organised crime.
- Dr Andrew Davies (Department of History) - Gangs, history of crime, history of policing, history of punishment, violence.
- Dr Mike Rowe (Management School) - Ethnography, governance, police discretion, policing, public accountability.
- Dr Jennifer Turner (Department of Geography and Planning) - Carceral geography, carceral methodologies, disciplined mobilities, prison architecture and the lived experience of carceral space, the prison boundary.
- Dr Jaqueline Wheatcroft (Institute of Psychology, Health, and Society) - Cross examination, forensic science, policing, witnesses (including expert witnesses).
PGR and PGT representatives
Our postgraduate teaching (PGT) and postgraduate research (PGR) representatives communicate and liaise with postgraduate students and ICRU members, supporting an inclusive and horizontally focussed research community.
PGR representative
Jacob Astley, BA, MSc, PGCE 14+.
Jacob is ESRC NWSSDTP postgraduate researcher. His research interests include: extremism and hate, incels, intersectionality, manosphere, misogynistic-driven violence, security policy, terror, and counter-terrorism.
Email: j.w.astley@liverpool.ac.uk
PGT representative
Megan Davidson, FRSA, RSE
Megan is a postgraduate taught student in criminological research (MRes). Her research interests include: prison architecture, rehabilitative correctional opportunities, punishment, and indigenous criminology.
Email: M.Davidson3@liverpool.ac.uk
The Unit is supported by an International Reference Group (IRG) and a National Consultative Group (NCG).
All members are:
- Invited to an annual ICRU general meeting in which we review the previous academic year and discuss ideas for the following academic year;
- Invited to participate in our seminar series, which features regular talk by scholars. These seminars are typically open to the public and also include undergraduate and postgraduate students. They can take place online, face-to-face in Liverpool, or in a hybrid format.
- Sent regular updates informing them about our events in order to disseminate these to their professional networks.
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