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Institute of Criminology

 

Biography

Dr Hannah Marshall is the Lumley Junior Research Fellow in Criminology at Magdalene College. Hannah’s main areas of research interest are victimology, criminal exploitation, and youth justice. Methodologically, Hannah is particularly interested in qualitative approaches, including intersectional, critical, and participatory approaches that seek to promote equality and social justice.

Hannah’s current research focuses on the issue of child criminal exploitation (CCE) in the context of county lines drug markets in the UK. She is interested in the processes by which young people come to claim or reject the ‘victim of exploitation’ label, as well as the processes by which their status as victims emerges, or fails to emerge, within the youth justice system.

Hannah is an associate fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is a lecturer for ‘Foundations in Criminology and Criminal Justice’, a supervisor for ‘Criminology Sentencing and the Penal System’, and teaches on research methods with participants described as “vulnerable” as part of the Social Sciences Research Methods Programme.

Research

Current Research Interests

Hannah’s PhD is a qualitative study of child criminal exploitation (CCE) in the context of county lines drug markets in the UK. Her research involves working with young people involved in county lines drug distribution, and the professionals working to support them, using a combination of interview and participant observation-based methods. Her research focuses on understanding the processes by which young people involved in county lines come to claim or reject the ‘victim of exploitation’ label, as well as the processes by which their status as victims emerges, or fails to emerge, within the youth justice system.

Hannah’s research is funded by the ESRC and Newnham College, Cambridge.

Hannah is also the founder and co-convenor of the research network ‘Critical Approaches to Vulnerability in Empirical Research

 Supervisors:  Dr Caroline Lanskey and Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe

 

Keywords

  • Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE)
  • Critical Victimology
  • Drug-related crime
  • Youth Justice
  • Participatory methods and co-production
  • Human trafficking

Publications

Key publications: 

Academic publications

Marshall, H. (forthcoming) ‘Intersectionality and interrelating experiences of offending and victimization in the context of child criminal exploitation’ in Contemporary Intersectional Criminology: Examining the Boundaries of Intersectionality and Crime, Ed. Jane Healy and Ben Colliver, Bristol University Press, Bristol.

Marshall, H; Harvey, J; Lanskey, C (2019) ‘Connectors, Horizon-Stretchers, Outsiders: A Study of Youth Justice Practitioners in Rural England’. Youth Justice.

 

Marshall, H (2018) ‘Once You Support You are Supported: A Qualitative Analysis of Ex-Prisoner Reintegration in Gulu, Uganda’ Economic Anthropology, 15 (1).

Book reviews

Marshall, H. (2017). Peters, Alicia W. 2015. Responding to human trafficking: sex, gender, and culture in the law. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 256 pp. Hb.: US $59.95. ISBN: 9780812247336.

Marshall, Hannah (2016) Review of The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance ed. Awol AlloAfrican Studies Quarterly, 16, 3-4. 

Published policy research

Papadaki, H. and Marshall, H. (2020) ‘Underground Lives: Criminal Exploitation of Adult Victims’, Hestia, UK.

 

Jarman, B.; Delap, L.; Jackson, L.; Lanskey, C.; Marshall, H.; Gelsthorpe, L. (2018) Safeguarding Children in the Secure Estate, 1960–2016; Apollo—University of Cambridge Repository: Cambridge, UK.

Harris, J., Nickson, H., Marshall, H. (2018) ‘MEAM Approach Evaluation: Baseline Report’. Cordis Bright, London UK.

Boxford, S., Chanon, C., Marshall H. (2018) ‘The Relationship Between Family Violence and Youth Offending’, Local Government Association, Cordis Bright and Chanon Consulting. London, UK.

Marshall, Hannah (2016) ‘Ex-prisoner Reintegration: A Qualitative Study’, Advance Afrika, Kampala, Uganda.

Teaching and Supervisions

Teaching: 

 

Criminology, Sentencing and the Penal System

Foundations in Criminology and Criminal Justice

Long essay in Criminology

 Hannah  Marshall

Affiliations

Person keywords: 
Labour exploitation
Participatory methods and co-production
Intersectional feminist methods
Criminal exploitation and county lines
Human trafficking