Current Ph.D. Topics
Below are listed the names and research topics of current and some recent Ph.D. students. If you wish to contact a student this can be done via the Graduate Administrator, Catherine Byfield.
Please click on a name to see a brief summary of the students biography, C.V. and/or research.
Current Ph.D. Students & Research Topics
| Akers, Caroline | Nineteenth-century crime rates |
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| Akoensi, Thomas | Correlates of prison officer job stress and its effects on job satisfaction and organizational commitment: the case of the Ghana Prisons Service |
| Armstrong, Ruth | Searching for Mercy Street: Examining the re-entry of ex-prisoners released from a faith based prison unit |
| Bergin, Tiffany | Criminological policy diffusion and the spread of correctional boot camps in the United States |
| Besemer, Sytske | Mechanisms explaining intergenerational transmission of aggression |
| Bui, Laura | Culture and Crime in Seattle, London, and Kyoto |
| Clarke, Gemma | Drug- and alcohol-related sexual assault |
| Clay, Nicola | An exploratory study into the experiences and perceptions of young offenders in segregation units |
| Cooke, Barbara | A quasi-experimental evaluation of dog-training programmes in American prisons |
| Cox, Alexandra | Legitimation of power during adolescence |
| Dominey, Jane | Who works with offenders? Exploring the skills, knowledge, values and understanding of the frontline staff who work with offenders in the community |
| Droppelmann, Catalina | Desistance from crime among Chilean juvenile offenders |
| Eastwood, Sophie | Lifestyle geography and juvenile crime: a case study of Peterborough, UK |
| Eshel, Abigail | The return of societies to 'normal crime' following periods of war or conflict |
| Foster, John | The shifting relationship between police and 'Asian' young men: an exploratory study of perceptions in a British city |
| Gadd, Victoria | Identifying effective and successful senior management teams in public-sector prisons |
| Gurian, Elizabeth | Serial and single-incident acts of murder: an exploration of women's solo and partnered offending |
| Hahn, Bryanna | Using offender-offence typologies to predict burglary offenders |
| Hardie, Beth | Why don't all young people commit crime? A study of parental monitoring, activity fields and crime |
| Horgan, Jane | Morality, religion and crime |
| Hutton, Marie | A Case for Change?: A Critical Analysis of the Visiting System in Prisons in England and Wales |
| Larocque, Rachelle | Is Canada Exceptional? |
| Lea, Claire | The contemporary history and current role of the Prison Officers' Association in England and Wales |
| Lee, Stuart | The relationship between conventional crime rates and political violence in Northern Ireland |
| Leeney, David | Breach of the PEACE: a development of the police PEACE interview model to facilitate recall in context for front-line investigations of crime |
| Marshall, Daniel | The role of criminal justice interventions in young people's offending |
| Mera, Alejandra | Perspectives of the implementation of restorative justice programmes in South America |
| Motto, Michael | Multiculturalism and the ordered society: police responses to diversity in London and New York City |
| Neyroud, Peter | Changing the criminal justice portfolio: an experiment to test the cost benefits of applying a Crime Harm Index and evidence-based decision-making protocol to police disposal decisions |
| Nivette, Amy | Cross-national predictors of homicide |
| Page, Geoff | The buck stops where? Disorder, complexity and crises in the Drug Interventions Programme. |
| Parsons, Jo | Managerial influences on police decision-making and consequences for police legitimacy |
| Phillips, Jake | Rehabilitative ideals in NOMS |
| Reinke, Pascale | Special measures for vulnerable and intimidated witnesses and their impact on witnesses’ suggestibility across the lifespan |
| Sanchez, Olga | Prevalence of neuropsychological dysfunction among different typologies of sex offenders |
| Schmidt, William | Wrongful convictions |
| Stavisky Hooley, Maya | Ethnic identity and attitudes towards the police in London's inner city borough of Hackney |
| Theodorakis, Nikolaos | Efficiency of crime prevention policies for incidents of corporate crime throughout Europe and the US: is contemporary law and policy the sword needed to solve the Gordion knot? |
| Thomas, David | The guilty plea sentence discount |
| Topcuoglu, Tuba | Child problem behaviour amongst immigrant groups: test of three developmental theories in Z-Proso |
| Trivedi, Neema | The role of moral emotions in young adults' violence |
| van Ginneken, Esther | 'The pains and gains of imprisonment |
| van Marle, Fenna | Socio-emotional explanations for public punitiveness: empirical support for the ontological insecurity thesis |
| Vibla, Natalia | Disagreement in judicial decision-making |
| Wain, Neil | 'Where are the police?' A systematic study of police patrol in the UK |
| Warr, Jason | The Prison Based Forensic Psychologist: In Person and Practice |
| Wild, Abigail | How order is conceptualised and/or achieved in a Christian prison wing |
| Wilson, Margaret | Do offenders discover the harms of their offences? A randomised control trial evaluating the Sycamore Tree (victim-awareness) Programme |
| Woods, Jordan | Policing homophobic and transphobic crime in the United Kingdom |
Recently Completed Ph.D. Theses
| Sarah Bennett | Criminal careers, restorative justice and crime |
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| Kofi Boakye | Risk factors and delinquency: a case-control study of convicted juvenile offenders in Ghana |
| Michelle Butler | Prisoner confrontations: the role of shame, masculinity and respect |
| Leo Cheliotis | The rise and fall of penal managerialism: towards a self-liquidating criminology |
| Deborah Drake | A comparison of quality of life, legitimacy and order in two maximum-security prisons |
| Kelly Frailing | Mental health courts |
| David Green | The politics of tragedy: child-on-child homicide and political culture |
| Dirk-Hinrich Haar | Formalised modelling of action theory in the explanation of crime for prediction, deduction and intervention |
| Lila Kazemian | Comparative analysis of the duration of criminal careers and desistance from crime |
| Vicky Kemp | Aspects of the new youth justice reforms in England and Wales |
| Anna King | Punitiveness and the person: the psychodynamics of attitudes towards offenders |
| Christopher Koegl | High-Risk Antisocial Children: Predicting Future Criminal and Health Outcomes |
| Nathania Ma | On the juveniles of Macau: a study of Chinese youths' patterns of offending and victimisation |
| Sarah van Mastrigt | Co-offending: relationships with age, gender and crime type |
| Joseph Murray | The Effects of Parental Imprisonment on Children |
| Alpa Parmar | Crime and 'the Asian community': disentangling perceptions and reality |
| Ivana Sekol | Analysis of bullying in residential institutions |
| Gilly Sharpe | Girls in the youth justice system |
| Beatrice von Silva Tarouca-Larsen | The ethics of CCTV surveillance |
| Layla Skinns | Cops, councils, and crime and disorder |
| Symkovych, Anton | Power relations in a Ukrainian prison |
| Sarah Tait | Prison officer care for prisoners in one men's and one women's prison |
| Justice Tankebe | Policing and legitimacy in a post-colonial democracy: a theoretical and empirical study of Ghana |
| Delphine Theobald | Analysis of female partners in the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development |
| Maria Ttofi | Testing the applicability of theories to understand school aggression and bullying |
| Kyle Treiber | Executive capabilities, self-control and crime |