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Criminology MA, MPhil, PhD

This is a research programme within the Criminology subject area.

Outline

Across the SSPSSR, there is a breadth and depth of research expertise and we can offer high-quality supervision in a wide range of areas in criminology. There are further details on the research activities and publications of individual members of staff and the School's research units on our website. In addition to regular meetings with individual supervisors, all research students take a research training programme (see Methods of Social Research MA for details).


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Research group

Crime, Control and Culture

The School has a long-established tradition of conducting criminological research. The group covers a diverse range of topics, employs both qualitative and quantitative methodologies and draws upon different theoretical traditions. We have particular expertise in the following areas: cultural criminology; crime, punishment and social change; drug use; gender, crime and criminal justice; penology and imprisonment (especially of female offenders); policing; quasi-compulsory treatment for drug-using offenders; race, crime and criminal justice; restorative justice and young offenders; crime and the ‘night-time economy', terrorism and political crime; violence; youth crime and youth justice.

Present and current research has been funded by the ESRC, the Home Office and the Youth Justice Board.

Kent Crime and Justice Centre

The School is also home to Kent Crime and Justice Centre (KCJC), which is a collaboration of senior researchers at the University of Kent, based in SSPSSR, the Personal Social Services Research Unit and the Kent Law School. The core members have a multidisciplinary background, which includes sociology, economics, law and statistics, and expertise in sophisticated quantitative techniques, economic modelling and qualitative methods.

KCJC has a national and international reputation for interdisciplinary research in the field of criminology and criminal justice. During recent years, the Centre has responded to a high-level demand from the Home Office for evaluative research that incorporates cost-effectiveness, while still ensuring responsiveness to local and regional needs and opportunities.

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Staff research

Full details of staff research interests can be found on our website.

Dr Phil Carney: Lecturer in Criminology; Erasmus and International Co-ordinator; Kent Co-ordinator, Common Study Programme in Critical Criminology

Photographic theory; spectacle; radical criminology; cultural criminology; critical visual culture; post-structuralist critical theory; desire and power; the micropolitics of fascism.

Dr Caroline Chatwin: Senior Lecturer in Criminology; Director of Studies for Undergraduate Criminology

European drug policy; young people and victimisation; drug use and subcultural studies. Recent publications include: Drug Policy Harmonization and the European Union (2011).

Dr Jennifer Fleetwood: Lecturer in Criminology

Gender and crime; drug trafficking; ethnography; narrative; research ethics.

Professor Chris Hale: Professor of Criminology; Director, Kent Crime and Justice Centre

How political debates around law and order have affected responses to crime; quantitative analysis of crime data, especially the relationships between crime and fear of crime with wider economic and social changes; evaluations of new interventions and crime reduction strategies; policing; youth crime. Recent publications include: Criminology (co-ed, 2009).

Professor Keith Hayward: Professor of Criminology

Criminological theory; cultural criminology, youth crime; popular culture; spatial and social theory; terrorism and fanaticism. Recent publications include: Cultural Criminology: An Invitation

(co-author, 2008); Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology (co-ed, 2009); Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image (co-ed, 2010); Cultural Criminology (co-ed, 2011); Criminology 3rd ed (co-ed, 2013).

Dr Johnny Ilan: Lecturer in Criminology

Cultural criminology; street culture; urban ethnography; media and crime; youth crime; justice and policing.

Professor Roger Matthews: Professor of Criminology; Director of Studies for Postgraduate Criminology

Penology, community safety and crime prevention, prostitution, armed robbery, punitiveness, left realism. Recent publications include: Assessing The Use and Impact of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (co-author, 2007); Prostitution Politics and Policy (2008); Doing Time: An Introduction to the Sociology of Imprisonment (2009).

Dr Kate O'Brien: Lecturer in Criminology

The night-time economy; ethnography; drug markets; youth and crime; gender and crime.

Professor Larry Ray: Professor of Sociology; Director of Graduate Studies (Research)

Sociological theory; globalisation; race and ethnicity; violence. Recent publications include: Globalization and Everyday Life (2007); Violence and Society (2011).

Professor Kevin Stenson: Professor of Criminology

Criminological theory, risk and governance, youth crime.

Professor Jock Young: Professor of Criminology

Criminological theory, social exclusion and crime; immigration; causes and consequences of terrorism.

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Contact details

Admissions enquiries

T: +44 (0)1227 827272
E: information@kent.ac.uk

Subject enquiries

Graduate Admissions
Secretary School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, UK
T: +44 (0)1227 827613 / 823086
F: +44 (0)1227 827005
E: sspssr-pg-admin@kent.ac.uk

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How to apply

Before applying, please read our ‘How to apply’ section.

You can then go straight to the online application form by clicking the programme below:

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Last Updated: 13/09/2011