Institute of Criminology

Anton Symkóvych - Biography

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Anton Symkóvych
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as525@cam.ac.uk
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Research Abstract


Anton SymkĂłvych is a PhD student at the Institute of Criminology and a member of the Prisons Research Centre.

  • MPhil in Criminological Research, University of Cambridge, UK
  • MSW (with Distinction), California State University-Fresno, USA
  • Diploma (with Distinction) in Social Work and Certificate in Applied Psychology, Uzhhorod National University, Ukraine
  • BA (with Distinction') in Sociology, Uzhhorod National University, Ukraine

Teaching Experience

  • Demonstrator in Foundations in Statistics Module (Michaelmas 2010) and Bivariate Associations Module (Lent 2010 and Lent 2011), University of Cambridge Joint Schools’ Research Methods Programme
  • Teacher of English: OCEP summer camp in Xuzhou and Haian, China (2006) and OSCA summer camp in Kobe, Japan (2007)
  • Graduate Student Assistant (undergraduate research class on data analysis and presentation) Department of Social Work Education, California State University-Fresno, Spring 2004

Professional Presentations

  • "Securing control in a Ukrainian prison." Presented at the American Society of Criminology annual meeting, San Francisco, November 2010
  • "Securing control in a Ukrainian prison." Presented at Institute of Criminology Ph.D. Public Seminars, Cambridge, February 2010
  • “On Some Aspects of Power Relations in the Ukrainian Prison.” Presented at the European Society of Criminology annual conference, Ljubljana, September 2009
  • “Las Investigaciones Delicadas en la CriminologĂ­a y CĂłmo se las Puede Conducir.” Presented at the Tercer Encuentro Anual de CriminologĂ­a, Caracas, November, 2006
  • “Theorising of the Phenomenon of Juvenile Offending.” Presented at the conference of the Department of Social Work of Uzhhorod National University, Uzhhorod, September, 2005

Professional Memberships

  • Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
  • American Society of Criminology

Research Interests

  • Order, power and resistance in prison
  • Bureaucracy and organizations
  • Prison administration
  • Cross-national research
  • Methodological issues in conducting sensitive research
  • Prison social work
  • Juvenile justice

Anton is supervised by Professor Roy King.


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