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Steve Uglow

Professor of Criminal Justice

S.P.Uglow@kent.ac.uk
+44 (1227) 823342

Research

My general field of interest is Criminal Justice, particularly in the areas of Policing and in Criminal Evidence.

Major research project

Most of my research is done in conjunction with the Kent Crime and Justice Centre. Most recent projects include:

  • The Evaluation of Operation Enhance (2004, financed by the Home Office and Kent Police, £50,000).
  • The Evaluation of Visual Recording of Interviews with Suspects in Police Stations (2003, financed by the Home Office, £20,000).
  • The Examination of The Introduction of Referral Orders into the Youth Justice System. (joint project 2001, financed by the Home Office Crime Reduction Programme, overall volume of £122,000).

Publications

Also view these in the Kent Academic Repository
Books
Articles
Book Sections
Research Reports
Edited Books
Total publications: 13 [See all in KAR]

Teaching & Supervision

Teaching

Undergraduate: Course convenor in Law of Evidence (LW518) and Policing (LW 542); also teaches Criminal Law (LW 508).

Postgraduate: Programme convenor for LLM in Criminal Justice. Postgraduate research supervision.

Supervision

Criminal Justice, including Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Criminal Law, Policing.

Currently Supervising

S Al-Ghoul: PhD "The effectiveness of international cooperation in criminal matters"

I Beattie: PhD "Crime, community and the crusader: the quest for moral order"

I Karmak: MPhil "Research of alleged miscarriages of justice in historic allegations of child abuse"

S Mohamed: PhD "Serenti centre: a study of the compulsory treatment and rehabilitation of drug dependant offenders in Malaysia"

E Muigui: MPhil "A police complains authority in Kenya modelled on the UK Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). Challenges of implementing policy into practice in developing countries"

Other Academic Activities

Professional Societies

Society of Legal Scholars; British Society of Criminology.

External Appointments

I have worked as a consultant for the Home Office on a number of projects such as voice recognition as evidence in criminal cases; restorative justice, markets for stolen goods and visual recording on police interviews.

I have been an external examiner and assessor for the universities of Surrey, Sussex, Southampton, Exeter, Cardiff, Mauritius and de Montfort.
I have worked as a consultatn for various police forces such as Kent Constabulary on best value reviews on criminal justice and on intelligence led policing.

I have worked as a consultant for local authorities such as Canterbury and Sevenoaks District Councils on their crime audits.

I am on the Advisory board of the Cologne School of International Doctoral Studies.

Administration

I am the director of the LLM in Criminal Justice programme.

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