Criminology Academic Staff

Head of Discipline

Professor Alison Young
Main research interests: Feminist legal theory; criminal law; bio-technology and legal ethics; violence and law; law and culture.

Associate Professors and Readers

Assoc Prof Fiona Haines
Main research interests: Regulation and organizational deviance; workplace violence prevention; workplace health and safety.

Assoc Prof Steve James
Main research interests: Policing; crime prevention; drug law enforcement.

Assoc Prof Adam Sutton
Main research interests: Crime prevention; crime and policy; crime statistics; drug law enforcement.

Senior Lecturers

Dr Mark Brown
Main research interests: Penal policy and corrections; risk and desistance; colonial penal history.

Lecturers

Dr Jennifer Balint
Main research interests: Genocide and state crime, war crimes trials, reconciliation, post-conflict reconstruction, social justice, law and multiculturalism, law and society.  Jennifer is convenor of Socio-Legal Studies.

Dr Julie Evans
Main research interests: the history of sovereignty; British colonialism; the theory and practice of settler colonialism; Indigenous peoples and the law; Indigenous peoples and criminal justice systems; race, gender and human rights.

Dr Anastasia Powell
Main research interests: violence against women; primary prevention of sexual violence; gender, sexuality and the law; qualitative methodologies

Dr Stuart Ross - see Research Fellows

Research Assistants

• Ms Jenny Maloney
• Mr Chris Platania-Phung
• Ms Athena Politis
• Mr Waclaw (William) Kurowski